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Woodfiring going well so far! yesterday was loading. Everything went into the kiln nice and smoothly. This will be the 10th firing of the cloud kiln.

We candled the kiln with propane for a few hours, then switched to a campfire in the lower door. The goal is raising the temp 75 - 100f/ hour until about 1000.

At this point, it’s still cool enough to open a port and just watch the flames and the pots. Only 800f or so.

Hour 16. 1500f in front, 946 in back. Swing shift is going well, with @dunting.bsky.social and Lilith Rocket running the kiln. They’ll do body reduction overnight, starving the kiln of O2 at various points. I’m back on shift in the morning.