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Summary: Grinding the shelves of your electric pottery kiln will keep it clean and free of excess glaze. Learn how to grind kiln shelves with tips from a master potter in this free ceramics video.
Emily Owen was born and raised in Austin, Texas. Owen earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and a bachelor's of Science from the University of Texas in Austin with a total of 180 hours...read more
"So now we're ready to grind our kiln shelves. Any spot where your pot might have left a little bit of glaze on your shelf you need to remove before this goes back into the kiln again. This glaze will remelt and stick to the bottom of a pot if you set it back on there. So the way that we're going to get rid of this is by using a rotary grinder to just grind it right off. We'll kiln wash over it and the shelf will be good as new to go back into the kiln. You're going to need a Meta dust mask to do this and you're also going to need safety goggles because when you're grinding it creates a lot of dust and also it can create little shards of glass from the glaze that you're grinding off. So you want to make sure and protect yourself."
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