Best Firing Accessories
-TOTAL 30 PIECES different clay tools, provide variety of carving shapes to give you more flexibility for your designs. - Perfect for carving, sculpting, shaping, modeling, cutting, scraping, brushing, smoothing, cleaning and so on in the clay crafts producing process. - This item contains functional sharp points and should not be used by young children. TOTAL 30PCS pottery and clay tools, great for carving, shaping, modeling, cutting, scraping, brushing, smoothing and so on.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Good quality tools."
"The tools are for the most part nicely made with the metal tool bits embedded/glued in the wooden handles."
"My peers are always asking to borrow my tools since they opted for the solely wood set which doesnt offer as much as these with the metal tips."
"Great set of tools!"
"These tools have held up to a semester of pottery classes without any faults."
"Arrived in Prime time."
"These tools have held up to a semester of pottery classes without any faults."
ITC-100HT is a proven ceramic coating for furnace, kiln, and forge refractory linings. The proprietary blend of ceramics in the coating absorbs and re-reflects the radiant heat into the hot zone evening out temperature profiles and reducing the energy needed to achieve the target temperature by 5-15%. ITC's 213 metal coating will protect and extend heating element and shell life as well. Re-reflects Radiant Heat and Saves Energy.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Not only does it allow my forge to get up to welding temp but it also helps on saving fuel, I went from about 8.5 hrs burn time per tank to upwards of 12.5 hrs!"
"I have used this in my forge and it has brought the temperature up from 1960 degrees now it can hit 2270 degrees."
"Wow this stuff really works!"
"Excellent Product, Just what the Doctor Ordered !!"
"Made a huge difference in tge heat my propane forge generates."
"I bought this to paint on my graphite crucibles as they aged."
Just what you need to create an amazing outdoor cooking space, service a wood stove, line a kiln shelf, or refurbish a furnace. Aluminosilicate Refractory Ceramic Fiber Blanket / Wool.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I sealed exposed surfaces and the abutting surfaces between the three tiers of my furnace (specific to my design, ymmv) with sodium silicate to keep it from shedding, but have chosen not to bother sealing the inner faces until and if it becomes necessary. Slicing it the long way produced way more airborne fiber than I would've liked, and I wasn't able to get truly clean cuts (lots of pretty thick, flappy pieces left hanging on the sides, leaving me to wonder whether I should peel them off or leave them attached."
"I will be using this for a forge I'm currently still working on, I also was lucky and live near a warehouse where they stock this product I did a local pickup."
"You can lay this on a pot of molten metal and it wont burn."
"Great for Raku kiln construction, thick enough to strip to half thickness for floor and cover of kiln."
"We got our shipment on time and the product was exactly as it was shown."
Best Kilns
Comes complete with a digital control panel, an embedded heating element, a 6" x 5" x 6" firing chamber, 1500 Watts of power, and a wide opening door. Uses a PID temperature controller with 30 steps Ramp/Soak (has all of the features of the standard PID controller, except for the manual control mode). This is a dual display, 1/16 DIN (48 mm x 48 mm) programmable PID temperature/process controller for applications where it is desirable to have the set point automatically adjust over time. • PID controller with fuzzy logic enhancement. Perfect for precious metal clay, ceramics, enameling, glass fusing, bead making, jewelry making, and more.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Because of where the thermocouple is, a good half inch is lost on the width of the work area. After taking the obstacles into consideration, I measured and realized I had 4.5 inches in width for my kiln furniture. Some of that lost space could be reclaimed if the manufacturer's adjusted the shape of their shelf with a narrow back to avoid the thermocouple, but then angle out and grow wider as the shelf clears the thermocouple. The height is six inches, but common sense says not to load to the top of the kiln. Because I considered the actual measurements to be substantially less than advertised, I planned to send this back as quickly as possible. Fortunately, Cool Tools sells no flake firing foil. I follow the instructional video under the product page at Cool Tools, and the box fits my kiln perfectly, so that solved that problem. By that point, I had decided to cancel the return request because of the no flake firing foil. There was one sentence in my Tabletop Furnace instructions that said to open the kiln when it reached 1700 degrees and let the smoke escape. I was glad I asked because I really didn't want to open a burning hot kiln pouring out smelly smoke. I did the burn off procedure outside, and I'm glad I did because it would have been difficult to get the smell of that smoke out of the fabric in my work shop. They recommend keeping it six feet away from anything, including the ceiling and the floor, which calls for a pretty tall room. I fired bronze in mine using the no flake foil from Cool Tools, and that worked great. The second time I used the box, a little charcoal leaked out at the back of my kiln, but it was far enough away from my thermocouple not to harm it. I wait until it reaches ambient temperature to open it, so I haven't needed to use gloves or tongs to remove either my shelf or my no-flake foil box. The one big drawback to this, besides the small work area, is that the coils and thermocouple are exposed. I plan to stack shelves, and I've had some ceramic tiles cut to fit my kiln. I asked Dave about stacking ceramic tiles, and he said those inserts can hold a decent amount. He also said they'll have a new website up in a couple of weeks, and I'll be able to buy additional kiln furniture through the site when it's finished."
"I had to get the one with the electronic controller due to the complex heating and soaking schedule required for properly matured ceramic material. The controller is not intuitive at all, but there is a video which goes through the programming for the burn-out process (required to burn off lubricant and properly oxidize the heating elements). If anyone is interested, I converted a nice slow cone 04 bisque schedule and a cone 06 glaze schedule into the controller "language" (you can e-mail me if you would like them)."
"Wife uses this in her jewerly shop almost daily for a year now."
"Works as expected, thank you."