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Posted by D Kat on July 16, 2008, 6:51 pm
Please log in for more thread options Kiln god goes outside of the kiln on top or near the door (door guard?).
You want it where it is not in the flame/rain(outdoor gas/wood)/direct heat
but you want it visible - you treat the kiln god as you want you pots to be
treated. But hell Marianne - you're talking to someone that used to walk
around the chair and tell the computer what a good girl she was when she had
inexplicable program crashes...
> Hi Donna!
>
>>I really, really don't think having a pot blow up in the kiln is in anyway
>>a good sacrifice - in fact, I would consider it an insult to the gods. I
>>piece of cookie I could understand...
>
> Yeah - I think you are right about exploding pots. I wasn't thinking very
> straight.
>
>> I have seen every sort of kiln god you can imagine. One of the studio's
>> is a fat naked lady with a big grin on her face. Mine is a dragon - a
>> rather tiny one but I like him.
>
> Do you put the god in the kiln or on top of it during firing?
>
>> I have never seen or heard of a sacrifice being made other than pouring a
>> bit of plum wine on the god during a group potluck firing and I'm not all
>> that sure the pour was intended as a sacrifice...
>
> Hehe! A splash of alchohol is more a baptism than a sacrifice, maybe.
>
>> You might find this fun -
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>> http://www.skutt.com/peepholeplug/peepholepluggallery2.html
>
> That was really cool! Sadly, I now have a kiln where I am not supposed to
> close the peep-hole! Still .- if the god can be on the outside of the
> kiln, I could make one that sits on the edge of the lid.
>
> Now to get some ideas! :-D
>
> Marianne
>
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