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ThurberMingus · 485 days ago · link · · parent · post: "The thing I love about enamel is that you’re never in control, you’re always on a knife-edge."
Oh that's not too bad if you can get multiple firings in a session. I was assuming the whole kiln has to cycle up and down like with pottery
Yeah that would be untenable. here's the basic enamelist's kiln. I have one. They're great; you can use them for burning out wax and melting glass. That li'l "bead door?" Yeah you flip that open, slide your spatula in there, stare at it (with glaziers goggles on lest you..."fog your windows") until it's properly melty and then pull it out. I timed it; the melt/cool/paint/remelt cycle can be accomplished in about 20 minutes on a watch-dial-sized item. I got these down to about two hours each, integrated, of which an hour each is the fiddly little wires.