
Fred Olsen's "The Kiln Book" has been a text book for all kiln builders for over 30 years. whether professional potters, students, teachers, or amateur enthusiasts. In clear and deatiled illustrations and text, Olsen takes you step by step through all the process of design, choice of fuel, method of firing, materials and construction.
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At
last potters have a book that explains the construction of a kiln
in the smallest detail." - F Carlton Ball, former Professor
of Ceramics, University of South California.
Fred
Olsen's "The Kiln Book" has been a text book for all kiln
builders for over 30 years. whether professional potters, students,
teachers, or amateur enthusiasts. In clear and deatiled illustrations
and text, Olsen takes you step by step through all the process of
design, choice of fuel, method of firing, materials and construction.
"The
Kiln Book has become a tool for so many people around the world
that this new edition, with a new format and publisher, has new
information, new kiln designs, pictures, updated materials and techniques,
should further the usefulness of this book for you past readers
and the new readers to come."
- Frederick L. Olsen |
Arranged
into logical chapters THE KILN BOOK deals with almost every possibility of
firing technology.
- Refractory
materials and applications
- Methods
of Kiln construction
- Principles
of design
- Crossdraft
kilns
- Downdraft
kilns
- Updraft
kilns
- Multi-directional
draft kilns
- Fuels,
combustion and firing techniques
- Electric
kilns
- Speciality
kiln and innovations and ideas
- Data,
conversion tables, technical specifications etc.
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