Make Your Own Bricks

Follow me on my journey as I perfect the old art of making bricks. I will be making fired natural clay bricks, tiles, and even compressed earth bricks or "CEB"s. Much of what I make will be for projects around home that I have dreamt up over time. I offer to make for you bricks with your name on them for a small cost as well. I may from time to time stray to some of my other creations that I think you may find of interest also. Please leave a comment for me about what you find here.

Monday, March 29, 2010

Making some more clay tiles.

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Im still always on the lookout for common objects that can be used to make cool patterns on my tiles. This old water valve handle was a thro...
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Saturday, March 20, 2010

Compressed earth bricks, back to the drawing board.

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Its been almost a year since I constructed the chimney of the aluminum furnace out of CEBs. Indiana has a harsh winter season with more than...

Playing around with low fire glaze.

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I bought some used glazes off of Ebay awhile back and have been trying them out to see how they effect my clays. Some glazes turn out very ...
Thursday, February 25, 2010

New stuff for the kiln.

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My new pyrometer thermocouples came in yesterday! Thanks once again for Ebay. Ive been fighting using crappy old thermocouples and even went...
Thursday, February 11, 2010

Fire and snow.

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Heavy snowfall tuesday. Spent the day on another 6.5 hour quickfire of the kiln. Salt glazed the last hour and half. Very good day watching ...
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Thursday, February 4, 2010

Pottery photos from latest wood kiln firing.

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Here are the pots from the latest firing. My focus has been on improving my firing to a useful level where the resulting pots would be glaze...
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Huge success with pottery kiln modifications.

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My kiln rebuild was the best thing I could have done. I am starting to realize just how gentle the balance is during a firing. All the varia...
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Sunday, January 31, 2010

Time for a change. Building kiln 5

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Ive settled on changing my kiln yet again. I have never really been happy with the way the flora kiln heated up. The kiln never reached good...
Thursday, January 14, 2010

Wood kiln modifications to add crossdraft flame flow done.

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Its been below freezing since Christmas here, so the snow and ice have built up alot outside. Though cold its beautiful too. Looking out my ...
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