4 Ways To Fire Pottery Outdoors - 2021 SW Kiln Conference

Very fascinating to see how many different ways of firing pottery, and they all produced nice looking pots.

Nice video. It shows there are many ways to get the job done without having a studio kiln. The kiln conference was like going to Disney Land for replica potters.

I sure hope to be there next year! Hearing that saw finally start up at the end got a deep chuckle out of me.

Andy, I love your videos and have been binge-watching them! It's so refreshing to see pottery videos that show how to get into making pottery without expensive kilns, equipment, commercial clay or expensive, toxic glaze materials! For years I was frustrated because, although I have abundant natural clay all around, I could not afford a kiln or much of the equipment that most ceramic artists seem to have. Most of them focus on stoneware and talk about how you have to bisque-fire pottery in an electric (expensive!) kiln before wood-firing and how you have to have or build a huge kiln like an anagama, made out of expensive fire bricks, in order to reach the high temperatures needed to fire stoneware or porcelain (like cone 10!). I was always left wondering how our ancestors thousands of years ago managed to make and use pottery without all those things!

Trying to start your chainsaw while Andy films and narrates 😂 omg i love this channel. The real reality tv

Wow, I envy you guys the dry ground you have in the Southwest. I can't do pit firings where I live, or even ground surface open firings, because the ground always has some moisture and if you dig down into the ground, the hole will fill with water. Even in the hottest, driest summer weeks, the ground water is never more than a couple of feet below grade level. No basements here! I have to build firing areas or small brick kilns on a platform of flat stones or cement or bricks. And our wood has to be stored under cover and is almost never dry enough to use straight from the woods, even if standing dead. It's good for growing mushrooms, though!

Thanks so much!!! this video was great I learned a lot!

While being purely coincidental, that voiceover had strong summations to a remote-hosted Garrison Keillor. 😉

real nice! thank you

I AM thinking of coming next year!! Great video!!!

Great way to start my morning ! Watching kiln conference fire video was very nice. Enjoyed seeing various firing techniques. Really hope to join next year and as always, thanks for sharing Andy !

some say bills still there trying to get that saw going

Could you please explain the etymology of "doublee doo".

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Comeon bill

does using manure make the pottery not food safe or is it ok becuase it gets burned to carbon also doeds it smell ? ps great video keep up the good work 👍

I've been enjoying many of your videos. I have a sort of off topic question. I am interested in making bonsai pots using primitive methods. Would clay fired using primitive methods be able to stand up to conditions needed for temperate trees, which would mean being exposed to wet and freeze thaw cycles? Thank you, you do wonderful videos.

Lololol it must be a primitive chainsaw