Electric Kiln Glaze Firing Schedule

Most commercial glazes recommend glaze firing two cones cooler than your chosen bisque firing cone.

Electric kiln glaze firing schedule.

What is a cone. Kiln furniture prep read your kiln manual s first. The cone number is actually more precise than that because it measures heat work. In today s post an excerpt from the july august 2018 issue of pottery making illustrated steve davis explains the causes of glaze faults and shares a bisque firing schedule for an electric kiln that will help you avoid them.

Cone 06 is a good choice a typical glaze firing though of course what will work best depends on the project glaze type and kiln. Jennifer poellot harnetty editor. Enter your cone number and select slow medium or fast firing speed. Designing a good kiln firing schedule for your ware is a very important and often overlooked factor for obtained successful firings.

To do this select cone fire mode. The cone number is a way to indicate how hot you want the kiln to go. Kiln wash this layer of protection prevents glaze from sticking to the shelf when it drips from a piece of bisque with the coating of kiln wash on the shelf the glaze can be scraped off easily. However many artists find that firing low fire pieces at the same cone as they glaze them works well.

In most electric periodic kilns firing schedules are programmed into electronic controllers to control the rate of rise soaking time and often the cooling curve.