The count down clock ticked away for the past five days and today, the day we have been anticipating at sfclayworks, finally arrived.
Early this morning our gas reduction kiln was delivered to us by Leslie Ceramics of Berkeley, CA. As you will see in the photos below, the kiln and hood arrived on the back of a flatbed truck ready to be fork lifted off and mauvered into position. The installation was easy according to the Leslie staff, but still involved some tricky moves like making a tight turn after sneaking it in under our roll up door with only inches to spare.
Our plumber Mike was on hand to finish up the ductwork he had been working on last week, and more importantly to do the final gas hook up.
Slowly but surely we are inching our way closer to having our first reduction firing at sfcw.
Our next big task is making enough work to fill the kiln.
Below are more images of our new kiln being delivered and installed.
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- Unwrapping the kiln
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- Unloading the hood
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- Plumbing up
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- Centering the flue
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- Off loading the kiln
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- Fork lifting on Oakdale St
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- Through the doorway
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- Set up for pallet jack
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- Tight turn
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- Pallet jacking in
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- Unwrapping the beast
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- Attaching the hood
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- Flue set up
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- Our kiln
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- Joyce, Nina, and Eusebio
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- Drying pots
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- Our new kiln has arrived!
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- Joyce, Nina, & kiln
