Kiln log #32, before: the shelf map

Monday, 5 a.m., glazing day. The load is tomorrow at 7:40, so here is the plan before the horno gets a vote.

What goes in: 24 pieces. Ten cups, eight bowls, four jars, T-08, and a broken shelf post I am trying as a stilt. Three shelves this time, not two.

Shelf map:

• Top: the four jars at the back by the element, because they can take the heat. Four bowls in a ring in front of them. T-08 back left, where T-07 sat, on its cookie of scrap bisque.
• Middle, new: six cups around the witness cone pack, dead centre.
• Bottom: four cups along the back, four bowls I am willing to see come out matte at the door. Nothing I care about touches the door side.

T-08 is the same blue ash at a two-second dip, gravity 1.40. Cone packs front, middle and back.

If the front and back still disagree by half a cone, I stop blaming the door and start blaming the element on that side. A new one is 1,900 pesos. I would rather blame the door.

Feldespato has been briefed. He is asleep under the wedging table, unconvinced.

Kiln log #32, the after, on Friday.