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To: AugustWest who wrote (232)	3/17/2002 5:43:34 PM
From: Crocodile	Respond to of 338

On kilns: I strongly recommend buying the book "The Kiln Book" by Olsen. I know you've mentioned you have already gotten a few. But this thing is pretty damn good. There is a whole chapter in it on the bank(crossdraft) kilns. See, I read a little again this morning<G>. hee hee...guess what? Yep, I have that one, but thanks for mentioning it! I think it's great. It's inspiring me seeing all of those wood-fired kilns from around the world. Also borrowed, "Kilns: Design, Construction and Operation" by Daniel Rhodes, which is quite good. "Kiln Building with Space-Age Materials" by Frank Colson. "Building Pottery Equipment" by Roger Harvey and Sylvia and John Kolb. "Raku" by Christopher Tyler and Richard Hirsch. I also have a couple of books on building kilns around here from before. Between all of them, they are giving me some ideas...and getting me looking around on the web for photos and websites about such things. LOTS of stuff online. Discussed the kiln idea with Mr. Croc this morning and he's interested and feels much the same as I do as he is familiar with older Asian pottery which has traditionally been fired in these kinds of kilns. Heck, if they have (and in some cases still are) producing these wonderful bowls and pots in that kind of kiln, then why not give it a shot and see how it goes. One thing around here is that firewood is cheap if you buy it, and we also have a pretty good supply of it around the farm -- leftover from the storm damage from January '98 (Yup.. STILL losing trees that got bent over during that storm, crazy as that sounds). Well, I got my new paddle today!! Cherrywood paddle.. quite a long beaver tail style (the blade is quite long and not too wide so it is a variation on the usual beaver tail paddles you see around) -- very light in weight. I already know I'm gonna love tripping with this one.. I picked up quite a number of paddles today and held them off to the side as I would when steering the canoe from the stern... and when I got to this paddle -- well, it was THE ONE... (o: