Raku oven (or kiln) just opened after reaching 1000ºC.
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January 29, 2010 at 4:01 pm
this is amazing looking
January 29, 2010 at 4:52 pm
Plasma worms…okay, we’re officially fucked.
January 29, 2010 at 4:59 pm
Is that a 3.5″ floppy in the back ground? j/k
January 29, 2010 at 5:39 pm
A surreal vision oh hell.
January 29, 2010 at 5:40 pm
Damn it,”of hell”.
January 29, 2010 at 6:04 pm
I thought this was a crazy ass steam vent like on that one episode of Planet Earth.
January 29, 2010 at 7:57 pm
That’s what I was thinking too.
January 29, 2010 at 8:36 pm
THAT`S where I left my thigh-high leather boots.
January 29, 2010 at 10:06 pm
I’ve got bad news for everyone,
You’re not getting them back, at least not in a wearable condition.
January 29, 2010 at 11:27 pm
Oh, I hope they didn’t open it as much as it looks like they did. Kilns are supposed to have a tiny porthole like aperture so that you can look in without opening the thing. At 1,000 C, room temperature air can shatter that clay. My sister has an electric kiln for her handmade tile business. She usually only heats it up to cone 5, but for heavy glaze raku, she’s been know to go up to 1000 degrees. It takes a thick terracotta tile to stand up to that. If you have any air bubbles in your clay it’ll end up shattering and spraying its’ glaze all over the rest of the tile in the kiln. She used to be able to press hard enough to push out any bubbles, but as her fibromyalgia has advanced, she just doesn’t have the strength. She’s saving up to get a high-pressure extruder that will remove as much air as possible from the clay.
Er, um…that was a lot of industry specific jargon and oversharing. yeah, it looks neat.
January 30, 2010 at 2:56 am
Hey, thanks!
I think the picture is fucking awesome, but didn’t know what to make of it. Thanks to you I know what it is. Give my best wishes to your sister.
January 30, 2010 at 9:41 am
Thanks! She probably wouldn’t appreciate me venting about her difficulties on someone else’s image blog, but it’s nice to know that random strangers have sympathy.