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<li>Do a bisque firing at the temperature cycle appropriate to your selected type of clay | <li>Do a bisque firing at the temperature cycle appropriate to your selected type of clay | ||
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<li>generally speaking you will want to fire between cone | <li>generally speaking you will want to fire between cone 04 and cone 06. choose according to your clay and desired properties of the finished piece.</li> | ||
<li>unlike glaze firing, bisque items can touch. your main concern is that things don’t collapse under their own weight or the weight of things on top of them.</li></ul> | <li>unlike glaze firing, bisque items can touch. your main concern is that things don’t collapse under their own weight or the weight of things on top of them.</li></ul> | ||
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* Firing occupies the kilns/controllers for many hours at once. Please be sure to add your items to the schedule so others can plan accordingly | * Firing occupies the kilns/controllers for many hours at once. Please be sure to add your items to the schedule so others can plan accordingly | ||
* Consider testing your glaze and clay combo in an earlier firing, especially if you are doing a full kiln’s worth of pottery, or are very invested in a piece | * Consider testing your glaze and clay combo in an earlier firing, especially if you are doing a full kiln’s worth of pottery, or are very invested in a piece | ||
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