Grog is bisqued clay broken into fragments and added to your clay body. Anytime I have participated in a Raku firing, we have warmed the pieces up first to @ 3 or 400 degrees before being placed into the raku kiln. There are raku glazes for sale, and we did use commercial ones (as opposed to making them ourselves.) After firing to temp, the objects were taken from the kiln and immediately placed into a metal bucket that was filled with either newsprint or other flammable substances (wood chips, etc) and a lid was put on to reduce the oxygen. Once the object had cooled somewhat, it was placed into a water bath to continue cooling. I have to admit that I lost a lot of objects to the clay gods, but the ones that survived are so worth it!!

@BrevaCreative

8 ай бұрын

That's so cool, I'm really enjoying exploring raku! I might have go try the warming them before trick, might help especially in the microwave. I feel like it heats up too fast, I can control the heat more in my barrel kiln thats in a different video though ;)

@morplagro1545

4 ай бұрын

@@BrevaCreative it can also be sand, diatomaceous earth, or anything non-plastic that can withstand those temps :D. I work with homemade clay, I add sand and diatomaceous earth to my clay. Also, don't feel limited to small pots! You can fire big ones in real fires! Look at the channel Andy Wards ancient pottery...

OBSESSED. I love how in depth this is! Thank you for sharing 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

@BrevaCreative

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😊

For Raku, I just drilled a hole in the bottom of an old electric kiln like you bought, stuck in a weed burner and fire great with a tank of LPG. I can even get stone ware up to cone 10.

@BrevaCreative

8 ай бұрын

Cool 😎 sounds awesome 🔥

what a cool idea. keep experimenting!

@BrevaCreative

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!! 😀

Whoa, this is really cool! I want such kiln too!

@BrevaCreative

Жыл бұрын

Link to it below! 😁

Omg this is so cool!

@BrevaCreative

Жыл бұрын

Haha YES!!! 😄

very cool! thank you :)

I never saw such a small kiln. Very interesting.

@BrevaCreative

Жыл бұрын

It's so cute! 😍

Let your raw raku air dry for a day or so and then continue drying in a conventional oven at around 200 degrees for an hour or two. I always ping the piece for 30 seconds, then 2 minutes and wait a minute or so in between before doing the bisque. Same with glazing, warm it up bit by bit. Raku WILL explode if it is not dry enough before you put it in the MW kiln. I'm surprised it didn't crack when you took it out while it was so hot. If you use glaze, you will sometimes get cracks if you don't let it cool down before you open the kiln.

@BrevaCreative

5 ай бұрын

Gotcha, yeah it's a bit iffy, but with these little pieces I don't get too attached so it's only a little heartbreaking to lose them, will definitely try the oven trick though! Thanks for the tip.

Ok, this was a great idea and video. It reminded me of a cauldron that we made to melt Aluminum and and mold into various shapes. We used an old fire extinguisher!! The result of this experiment was beautiful!!

@BrevaCreative

11 ай бұрын

Love it! ❤️

Raku pronounced like rack, put that on the rack! Oo. Rack oo. The pottery itself won’t stick, it’s the glaze you have to worry about sticking. Only put the glaze on the top and not the bottom. Yes the clay has to be very very absolutely dry!!

@suej9883

5 ай бұрын

Wax applied to bottom before glazing will keep glaze from contacting surfaces, thus no sticking.

@221b-Maker-Street

4 ай бұрын

Glad you said this! My British ears were hurting every time I heard 'ray-koo' - I'd assumed it was just American pronunciation...

You are a real problem solver!! Such a cool idea. Yeas, make a trash can raku firing thingy!

@BrevaCreative

6 ай бұрын

Haha thank you! 💚

Cool video! Love your experiments with different textures!

@BrevaCreative

11 ай бұрын

Thanks!!!

you have just got a new super fan hahaa i loved this video so much, and i am very jealous! I so want to do pottery, but my hands are too painful and i cant take the cold - so watching vicariously is okay for me!

@BrevaCreative

7 ай бұрын

Yay!! Welcome, good to have you, thanks for watching! 💚💚💚

i know its old, but a little clay slip might be nice on it, really really watered down clay to work as a glaze

I like very much (a lot!) your pottery pieces, in spanish the kind of clay you're using it's called ¨chamote¨ and is very very textured and yes, it's calcinated clay pulverized what they add (also called ¨chamote¨) to obtain the consistency and texture, also to give it more endurance whithout a very high coocking temperature in a traditional (like... prehistoric?) way Again, beautiful pottery and raku!

@BrevaCreative

Жыл бұрын

Wow awesome info! Thanks! 😁

i LOVE your earrings!!!!😻😻😻

@BrevaCreative

Жыл бұрын

Made by our friend 'Trancendental.Creative', find her on IG!

What size microwave kiln are you using , and is it heavy? Thanks

@BrevaCreative

2 ай бұрын

Hi! The microwave kiln is incredibly lightweight! It can fit in your hand. The one we used is roughly 6" in diameter, the one we have linked below in the description is an 8" one. We recommend the 8" because it'll give you more flexibility. Thanks for watching!

A new subscriber here and since I don't know what backyard trashcan Raku is of course I want to see it :-)

@BrevaCreative

Ай бұрын

🤣

Who knew you could make microwave popcorn and the bowl for your popcorn at the same time?

@BrevaCreative

11 ай бұрын

Haha!!!

If you cut a hole in the lowest part of your old kiln, you can stick a gas burner in it and will have a big raku kiln.

@BrevaCreative

11 ай бұрын

We're going to get that kiln working at some point so we don't want to drill a hole into it, but we will be making a large raku kiln sometime this summer!

Thermo shock or sudden change of temp Moisture content and too much heat are the reasons behind pottery breakage during firing process

@BeckyIB

Ай бұрын

I’ve always heard Raku still has to be bisque fired. There’s chemically boned water modules that have to hit the quartz inversion point to evaporate. One British potter throws a tiny pot; dries for a couple of hours; bisque fires in the microwave kiln, then does a glaze firing (or feathers/fur). He’s very skilled.

I imagine this would be brilliant if I could hear it!! Ah sound at 2:14

Are you using low fire or mid fire clay and glazes?

@BrevaCreative

10 ай бұрын

These are made with a raku clay that bisque fires around cone 05 - I would not use a standard clay body in the microwave because of the temperature swings it would likely shatter. These are unglazed but we are doing a glaze video very soon so come back if you want to see that. If you do glaze in a microwave I would again use raku glazes and make sure it's not a microwave you would use for food after! 😁

Hello after decoration, you put it into water ? ? Thanks

@BrevaCreative

11 ай бұрын

I did not put them in water. There are types of raku glaze that do cool stuff in water but these are unglazed so no water.

@Arche-oo7sq

11 ай бұрын

@@BrevaCreative thanks a lot :)

Can you glaze in this type of setup?

@BrevaCreative

11 ай бұрын

Absolutely! We didn't here for simplicity, but definitely possible. However, I would not use that microwave for any food related purposes after using it for glaze.

👌👍

So you don’t have an electric stove or dryer? Because they are both 220

@BrevaCreative

5 ай бұрын

Gas stove & gas dryer with a 110 🙂

Not gonna lie, saw the human hair come out and was like ewww, but then again, why not try different textures from around the house? Thanks for humbling me, your pots turned out beautiful ❤

@BrevaCreative

4 ай бұрын

Haha SAME!!! It was kinda nasty, the smell was horrible, but dang it turned out pretty cool 🤷‍♀️

The power.. How many watt your microwave are..? And what about with voltage..?

@BrevaCreative

5 ай бұрын

It's pretty standard 1000w idk about voltage but it's just a standard 110 plug, nothing crazy just 70$ from target

When you go buy that kiln what do you ask for?

@BrevaCreative

8 ай бұрын

There's a link below in the description for the kiln we bought. You can also find others by looking up 'Microwave Kiln' :)

@francismnyele

8 ай бұрын

@@BrevaCreative , thank you very much. I did Google search and found to call it microwave kiln. Thanks again

Meant to mention, there is a bigger size kiln too.

you are great if you try applying glaze on it and see the result

@BrevaCreative

9 ай бұрын

Thank you! We just released a glazing video, check it out! 😀

Grog is temper, no?

@BrevaCreative

8 ай бұрын

Yeah same thing from what I understand, but grog is fun to say 😄

Why is there a hard pan left?!?!

@BrevaCreative

7 ай бұрын

What?

@aaronmcmillin1253

7 ай бұрын

@@BrevaCreative In the intro, the audio is left channel only. Very hard to listen too. Cool content though, going to look into my own microwave kiln.

OK, I have not finished the video yet, but I want to say that Raku pottery is not “fully functional.” It should not be used for things like food or drink. Functional for a candle maybe, or functional as a nice piece to look at, but Raku is not intended to be used with food.

Wonderful results, but please wear protection next time, woman! You could have burned yourself doung this with bare hands and a kitchen appliance!

I wish people would pronounce Raku properly :/

@BrevaCreative

2 ай бұрын

If that's the case, you'll enjoy our videos after this one because we corrected the pronunciation in those.