First biscuit and some messy oxides

My first biscuit firing went well,

 

nothing  broke and the kiln work fine, first time of trying with the new controller. Brilliant.

Hmmm, then I went on to coating the pots with oxide, not so good!!

Having not done this before and not having much reference to it I just bunged on a load of oxide as i had seen youtubes of glazing.

This was not a good idea.

I then fired my pots. 

Next day I was up at 6, open the shed door to check my kiln had operated ok. It had, it had hit 1250c no problems.

Anyhow a few hours later I opened the kiln.

Damn. Not only had I forgot to add Batt wash to the shelves, the thick oxide had just gone black, some had run off the pots and stuck to the shelves.

Ok, you learn by mistakes.

At least some were ok

But not what I had intended.

Back to the drawing board, I had saved my best pots for the second go. This time wiping the oxide off.

All worked, no breakages, and the colour was fantastic.