46. Pitfire Tips - How to Pitfire in Oil Drums (barrel)

Learn how to Pitfire your pottery in an oil drum (barrel).

In the video you will get tips for clays, colors, stacking, packing and fire of the pitfire kiln. Learn what materials to use for Pitfire. Learn how to pack your pots, stack them in the best way and how to fire an oil drum pitfire kiln to get the best results.

In the end of the video I will show the final results - studio photos of the finished pots.

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INDEX:
00:00 Welcome to Pitfire Day
00:49 New kinds of pots to Pitfire
01:10 Fire two Pitfire barrels
01:30 Cleaning new new Pitfire barrel with fire
03:45 Pitfire colorants
04:58 Pitfire glazed pots
09:47 Pitfire pots with colored slip
15:45 Using Ferric Chloride in Pitfire
18:40 Look at the cleaned Pitfire Barrel
19:07 How to avoid flacking of Terra Sigilate
20:32 Preparing the bonfire grid for the new Pitfire barrel
21:28 With or without saggar in Pitfire
22:14 Refire a pot with flacked Terra Sigilata
25:10 Using copper mesh to create fish net patterns
30:36 Using Cobalt Sulfate to color Pitfire pots
32:39 Using baby oil to burnish pots
33:34 All the pots are ready to fill the barrels
34:02 How to stack the Pitfire barrels (kilns)
44:07 Fire the Pitfire kilns
46:12 How to meassure the temperature in your Pitfire kiln
51:40 Covering up the oil drums for the night
54:53 Unloading the Pitfire barrels (kilns)
1:06:13 Photos of the finished Pitfired pots