Fire Kiln Firing Day

April 13th, 2011 was our Fire Kiln day

The Kiln was fitted with all our ceramics works and sealed off
to keep the temperature maintained.

We chopped and cut fire wood all morning. After prepping we fired
kiln and kept working on it until the temperature had
finally reached 2300F (plus).

A fun to start with a funny guy.
Blake is one of the hardest working students.








J P showing us how the Kiln works.












Kolina was tagged our fire scientist. We had to use the metal plane to play with fire. We had to keep the fire consistent and remove the extra ashes.







Our Teacher Keisuke Mizuno and students happy about the day and BBQ treat thrown for us all.








Every one was excited about being out here today.









These girls were working all day.









We were all taking turns taking pictures.









We were all simply enjoying the day.












Of course, we had to enjoy the day. Nothing beats a good afternoon, sunny BBQ and treats.








The Fire looks beautiful.









Blake started in the morning and ended up there all night through.
We needed to be careful loading the Kiln as the temperature was very
high and the wood caught fire in no less than 2 seconds.











We had to take turns filling the Kiln on each side. We also had to remember to close up the doors on either side to prevent fire from
going wild.







Being careful is part of the job.












Finally we reached to our temperature goal.
Now the matter was only of maintaining the temperature and
holding it up until we had close down for the day.





We shall see most of the works in the building and other blogs.