Will This Kiln Fire…? There are kilns for just about everything you want to heat.  There are kilns for glass, clay, knives, metal clay, copper enameling, lampworking, glass blowing, salt firing, reduction firings, and everything in between.  Whether you new to fired arts or your looking to broaden the scope of your work you may […]

Behind the Curtain at Doghouse Forge In this episode knife making expert and artist, Johnathan Porter, takes us behind the curtain at Doghouse Forge. If you have any interest in making your own knife, Johnathan’s workshops are awesome.  Very professional and thorough.  Doghouse Forge Clinics 

The Great Love Hate Relationship of Every Fired Artist On day you want to wrap your arms around her and never let go and one day you want to push her off a bridge.  I’m talking about your kiln of course.  We love telling those stories of the day we opened the kiln and found […]

GLOTFELT’s BIO Co-owner of Sir Ramic Porcelain, Inc., and Jen-Ken Kiln.  I have been in the fired arts world most of my life.  My mother’s studio was one of the after-school bus stops and many days my twin brother and I opted to get off there instead of going home.  I only wish we kept better track of […]

It‘s electric….. Get ready because today we are going to be discussing what you should be looking for in an electric potters wheel!  We will keep this short and sweet, but there are some simple factors to consider.    While the use of the flywheel version of the potters wheel goes back to 3129BC, This ancient art has […]