#it didn't explode!

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Successful kiln testing! I'll be painting these with acrylics next, and making new little sculptures soon.

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Welcome to brightly-fired, where I share my adventures with a microwave kiln and miniature pottery. Yes, I make pottery in the microwave! It does sometimes explode!

(not the microwave) (the microwave doesn't explode) (but sometimes. the pottery does.)

Pottery isn't new to me, but microwaving it is! I've seen a lot of people try this out in recent years, but there aren't a lot of free resources discussing how to actually... fire the pottery. So I figured, why not share what I'm learning and hopefully get more people involved in ceramics!

Here's my setup:

A microwave kiln! I use a basic kiln off Amazon, any of them for glass fusing should work, just do some research to make sure it'll fit in your microwave.

The microwave! Just a cheap microwave from Walmart. This one is 700 watts, which means I have to fire my pottery for longer, so you might have to do some experimenting depending on what microwave is available to you.

These are the gloves! Please get yourself some heat-resistant gloves. I got some welding gloves, and they work great for getting the kiln out of the microwave.

And a temperature gun! Essential for making sure the kiln gets hot enough. And making sure you don't burn yourself on your pottery.

Once I've got some tutorials made, I'll add the links here. For now, follow along as I liveblog my first microwave kiln experiments!

If you're just looking for finished pottery, check out the tag "it didn't explode!" Write-ups of my experiment process can be found under "this time for sure." Everything else is getting filed under "microwave kiln adventures." If you want to check out my other art, you can find it on my main blog, brightestofblues!