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I took the panel out of the kiln now, still hot enough to need gloves to handle, but it came out very good. I made one small error in the final temperature 2079\u00ba I should have set it to 2060\u00ba, that 19\u00ba difference seems minute in a kiln over 2000\u00ba but it makes the difference between the clay turning slightly brown and staying the red color I am aiming for.I had forgotten the higher temperature gave me the browner color a year ago when I fired\u00a0 another piece to that temperature as a test, and then lowered it to 2060\u00ba and the red color remained.<\/p>\n
The photo doesn’t show the color all that accurately, so I placed another piece fired at 2060\u00ba previously in front of it for comparison. The lion is a redder\/orange while the panel is in real life slightly red\/brown. This clay will turn a darker chocolate brown at a higher temperature but I that’s not the color I want. So on Thursday morning I’m going to fire the second panel since it’s dry now enough to fire, and fire it at 2060\u00ba<\/p>\n
The panel as fired measures 19-3\/4″ x 12-1\/8″ and weighs 29#<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I took the panel out of the kiln now, still hot enough to need gloves to handle, but it came out very good. I made one small error in the final temperature 2079\u00ba I should have set it to 2060\u00ba, that 19\u00ba difference seems minute in a kiln over 2000\u00ba but it makes the difference between the clay turning slightly brown and staying the red color I am aiming for.I had forgotten the higher temperature gave me the browner color a year ago when I fired\u00a0 another piece to that temperature as a test, and then lowered it to 2060\u00ba and the red color remained. The photo doesn’t show the color all that accurately, so I placed another piece fired at 2060\u00ba previously in front of it for comparison. The lion is a redder\/orange while the panel is in real life slightly red\/brown. This clay will turn a darker chocolate brown at a higher temperature but I that’s not the color I want. So on Thursday morning I’m going to fire the second panel since it’s dry now enough to fire, and fire it at 2060\u00ba The panel as fired measures 19-3\/4″ x 12-1\/8″ and weighs 29#<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sculptures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}