Lucien M. Koonce ceramics

[togei]

Hello Lucien,
Thank you for showing your very nice new work. I enjoyed looking at it.
Dave

[lucienkoonce]

Thanks Dave. I hope to get over to Japan in a year or two...have an invitation to fire with John Dix in Sasayama, Hyogo Prefecture.

[Robert Fornell]

Keep up the good work Lucien!


Best,
R

[lucienkoonce]

Thanks Robert!

[togei]

If you make it to Japan you are welcome to come by. I live an hour or so from Sasayama.
Dave

[lucienkoonce]

Thanks Dave...I will keep your invitation in mind and let you know once my plans are in place.

[lucienkoonce]

Some of my new tea bowls from the Gustin anagama firing in November. We introduced charcoal at the end of the firing, and hit close to c/14. For more images of mine (tokkuri, guinomi, yunomi, etc.) from the unloading, check out my blog at http://www.lmkoonceceramics.blogspot.com

Chawan_1.jpg

Chawan_5.jpg

Chawan_4.jpg

[Tead Off]

Great stuff! A pleasure to look at. Congrats.

[shyrabbit]

Wow, the fire and ash really did its job, nice.
Michael

[lucienkoonce]

It was an incredible firing. We put in 16 bags of natural hardwood charcoal at the end. Incredible heat...c/12 was a molten mass.

[Chip]

Wow, that must have been really intense. Beautiful results here and on your blog!

[lucienkoonce]

Thanks, Chip. I hope you had time to check out the video on my blog to see us putting the the charcoal.

[mosshorn]

wow, that firing was great! Did any pieces break? Seems with cone 14 you might suffer some casualties

[lucienkoonce]

Everything survived, although there was a set of wads with nothing but a puddle surrounding them...someone got into the wrong clay!

[togei]

Great video. I guess I should up my safety equipment level.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwgjEaui--Q
Dave