Firing the Beaver Calcine Kiln

I fired the Beaver Kiln this week! It was pretty exciting just to fire a kiln and play with the fire. I loaded the small chamber with Beaver bones (to use in a glaze), Deer bones (to use in the making of a clay body), and seashells (for use as a whiting in a glaze). I also loaded the kiln with cone packs, just as a temperature test, and the kiln worked beautifully for calcining materials! I dropped cone 08 in the chamber and that was hot enough for the purpose of the kiln.