Wood and Soda Fired Pottery

Archive for April, 2009

A New Soda Kiln

A New Soda Kiln

Back from the two-week stay at Penland, a little tired but mostly unharmed. Another Shane Mickey kiln now resides in Mitchell County, built with the help of several students. I was there to assist Shane and in the two weeks we built a modest sized soda kiln and fired it twice with the work made [...]


Kiln Building

For anyone waiting patiently for more words on the converted soda kiln….sorry, you’ll have to wait a little longer.  I’m off again starting tomorrow to assist my pal Shane Mickey with a ‘real’ soda kiln to be built with the help of a few students at Penland.  Two weeks from now we will have built [...]