My first backyard brick and pottery kilns

Here is a video record of my expirements with building and firing homemade wood burning brick and pottery clamp kilns.

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Education

Tags:

• brick
• pottery
• kiln
• clamp
• brickmaking
• clay
• wood
• fired
• homemade
• backyard

[ElectricEntertaiment]

Good video, no annoying music. Found your video while looking for different ideas on foundries and kilns. I think my first project will be a small foundry/forge. What part of the country do you live in? My last name is Hendrix, I live in Florida.

[rwhendrix]

@ElectricEntertaiment Thanks. I live close to Lafayette, Indiana, not far from Cutler. Hendrix you say? Thats interesting. I have new kiln footage I need to post on youtube soon. Much better kiln design now. Good luck on your forge. Keep in touch distant Hendrix reletive!

[supersovak]

awesome. just great to see you go through the whole process. wondering how the bricks came out in the end. Did you mix any sand into the clay?

[rwhendrix]

@supersovak Bricks from those firings was ok, but I have since done even better. I have a clamp kiln I fire a few times a year in Delphi at the Wabash and Erie Canal Park. I do mix a small amount of sand in with the clay, to help dry out after forming and make less cracks.

[rbmaserang]

looks like fun. but them regular paver bricks can't take the heatI have turned a bunch of them into dust. then i found some refractory bricks, real kiln/ incinerator bricks. another last bit of advice, youre fire is running too rich, pull a couple of bricks from around the hair blower to draw more air in. kudos. ps. try a leaf blower gas or elect, then repost vid. laterz

[rwhendrix]

@rbmaserang So true about pavers and red bricks, thats why I line with firebrick now. Temporary reduction is hard to avoid when adding fuel to the fire. It does ease up after a minute or so.

[rwhendrix]

@Pupdawg9724 Clamp kilns do smoke alot during firing. Its called reduction, and is hard to avoid right after adding fuel.

[Pupdawg9724]

i dont think its supposed to smoke like that

[smgarrettify]

cool! thanks

[rwhendrix]

@smgarrettify I dug the clay straight out of the ground. I doubt it would hold to cone 10. I usually fire around cone 04 to cone 2. More of a low fire clay.