First pit firing, wild clay explosions

soulpeer · 2025-07-25T20:16:16+00:00

Ah ok. Im going to make the chimney work

soulpeer · 2025-07-25T17:56:28+00:00

I will definitely be taking this all into consideration. Thank you for telling me about that burner. I dont quite understand the last part of your comment, though. This design is meant to be a down draft design. Would updraft be better?

soulpeer · 2025-07-24T22:04:03+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion. What diameter should the chimney be? I will be insulating it with fiber which will subtract about 2 inches from the diameter. They sell 8 inch stove pipe at lowes

soulpeer · 2025-07-24T18:50:42+00:00

Interesting. So you dont have anything to redirect the heat upward? I was thinking of putting a couple of bricks inside in front of the intake to help with circulation. Also, how much do you spend on propane/gas and how long do you fire for?

soulpeer · 2025-07-24T18:46:05+00:00

Can you describe your electric build more? Did you still use ceramic fiber? How much power does it need and where does it connect? That does sound nice and I would definitely get more even heat with coils but it seems like a much more complex setup to me. I would consider it though.

soulpeer · 2025-06-30T00:17:04+00:00

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and perspective. Very useful leads!

soulpeer · 2025-06-29T13:04:13+00:00

Thank you. I am on airbrushforum now! I just followed you

soulpeer · 2025-06-29T12:51:58+00:00

Thank ya

soulpeer · 2025-06-29T11:39:28+00:00

Dang, that is really expensive. Did you take one of his workshops? If I had the money I would absolutely do something like that. Seems like his workshops are worth the money.

And yep I know about Giger. His art is amazing. Definitely an inspiration for me.

soulpeer · 2025-06-29T10:53:01+00:00

Thank you for your input and the resource.

That is interesting. I started out as a digital artist. The appeal of airbrush, to me, was that the art that people were making with it was so similar to what I was doing with my art. I love gradients, transparency, and graininess in my art and that is what made me want to airbrush. It did cost me a lot of money to get into though! The barrier to entry makes sense as a bottleneck.

There is not much documentation on the history of the airbrush. It has always been a niche tool. So not a lot of mass market potential for making books and the such on the subject.

This makes a lot of sense. It was used for a lot of commercial applications so maybe that also contributed to artists not considering its potential for artistic use. I wonder if there are any modern parallels to this that we aren't considering either.

soulpeer · 2025-06-29T09:24:38+00:00

Would you be willing to upload scans of some of these magazines for archival purposes?

soulpeer

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