Finishing up the Penland Salt Kiln
Finished up the kiln building class a bit ago, and forgot to share these photos. In about 10 days we had the new salt kiln built and ready to go. The two students in the class were able to make as much work as they could squeeze out at night, and they still managed to keep up with us […]
From One Kiln to Another
I’ve been hiding in a cave for the last week…at least that what is feels like. In reality the cave was Kyle Carpenter’s kiln shed and rather than hiding of course I was building a new cross draft salt kiln for him. Things are moving along well and Kyle can’t wait to fire it up […]
Straight Into the New Year
It’s shaping up to be a busy and exciting year from the looks of the calendar. Getting ready for a firing in a few weeks means another wood day at Pallet Mountain. After a few more weeks working towards filling the kiln I’ll be taking a “break” to head down to Asheville for a kiln-building […]
Brick by Brick
It has been one never ending pile of bricks for me over the last few weeks. As mentioned in the last post, I was hired to build a new soda kiln for the good folks at the Odyssey Center. This particular kiln is a cross draft soda kiln, about 15 cubic feet of stacking space, […]
Another Mickey Kiln
Back from a week long excursion with Captain Conepack to build another Shane Mickey kiln. I’ve worked with Shane for the past few years, helping him build kilns in I think three states now. I’ve learned a lot from him about design theory and the practicalities of building kilns, and we tend to ramble on […]
Here and There
The summer is flying by while I run here and there on all the various projects. Most of them are moving along slowly, but at least they’re moving. One of the websites is nearly complete, the plans for the reduction kiln are almost Final Plans, we finished up the building of the little “test” soda […]
Back to Work
Hard to believe that we’re well into the summer season. Settling back in after the Studio Tour, found the blueberries coming along nicely up here on the mountain. The traffic trickled in all weekend, with many of the visitors being folks with whom we were already acquainted. It’s always great to see the rare breed […]
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 […]
