Raku is a process that involves glazing your clay objects with glazes that are high in metals, usually copper and that are designed to crackle.
They are then placed in a kiln and fired to a temperature of about 1900 degrees Fahrenheit.
Once it reaches this temperature, the work is immediately removed while it is still red-hot and placed into a combustion chamber such as a garbage can full of sawdust, newspaper, straw, or anything else that will easily catch on fire.
Once it lights on fire, flames envelope the piece and react with the copper or other metals in the glaze to create colourful patterns on the piece.
Carbon from the smoke becomes trapped in the cracks of crackle glazes and help to define them.
Glazes for the Raku process can be found on our Raku Glaze page.
View a video demonstration of a Raku Firing.
They are then placed in a kiln and fired to a temperature of about 1900 degrees Fahrenheit.
Once it reaches this temperature, the work is immediately removed while it is still red-hot and placed into a combustion chamber such as a garbage can full of sawdust, newspaper, straw, or anything else that will easily catch on fire.
Once it lights on fire, flames envelope the piece and react with the copper or other metals in the glaze to create colourful patterns on the piece.
Carbon from the smoke becomes trapped in the cracks of crackle glazes and help to define them.
Glazes for the Raku process can be found on our Raku Glaze page.
View a video demonstration of a Raku Firing.
Skutt Kilns Dual Input Digital Hand-Held Pyrometer
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Second Thermocouple for Skutt Kilns Dual Input Digital Hand-Held Pyrometer
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Kemper RK45 Raku Tongs with Teeth
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Kemper RK37 Raku Tongs
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Raku Propane Torch Westorch Manufacturing Model 80
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Raku Propane Torch Westorch Manufacturing Model 80 with Regulator
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Cerablanket Insulating Ceramic Fiber Blanket, square foot
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Jet D.P. High Duty Hard Fire Brick
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Soft Insulating Refractory Fire Brick, Morgan Thermal Ceramics K-23 IFB
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Watson Premium Heat Wave Gloves, Pair Size Small
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Watson Premium Heat Wave Gloves, Pair Size Large
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