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 enlarge | Authors: James C. Watkins, Paul Andrew Wandless
Publisher: Lark Books
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 19847
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.4 x 0.4
ISBN: 1579909523
Dewey Decimal Number: 738
EAN: 9781579909529
ASIN: 1579909523
Publication Date: September 28, 2006
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 Lots of great info and beautful pics May 6, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a great book on raku. it gives different views from different artists. The photography is good and shows many alternative ways to finish one's pottery other then the traditional glazing and firing. This book is a must for a potters reference bookcase.
terrific! November 12, 2006
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was so hungry for the information provided by this book,I bought it up fast.It's exactly what I needed,it has basic and user friendly info,a really good value for what it costs.I took it to the studio,and had others look at it and drool,begging me for info as to where they could get a copy.I am really glad I have it!!!
 Average...but can find same on internet August 14, 2006
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
I was disappointed in this book as most of what is in it, you can find on the internet, and usually better information. It will make a pretty edition to my pottery library but I had hoped for more.
Alternative Firing Techniques August 9, 2005
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
What a wonderful book. As a ceramic sculptor, I appreciate the Raku, Pit, Barrel and Saggar firing methods. It gives one enough of the technical details of the how-to's of each of the firing methods (and how to build a raku kiln, and barrel and pit kilns) to get one started. It also "fires" up one's imagination to expand the contents of the book and to push your work to another level. This book presents beautiful examples of what "Alternative Firing Techniques" can produce.
 emphasis on firing techniques, not kilns July 22, 2005
41 out of 41 found this review helpful
This is a very worthwhile and contentful book, just not what it seemed from the brief desciption. Hopefully this clarification is helpful to others:
This book's editorial description, along with the title, seem to suggest that its focus is in how to create various homemade ad hoc kilns (for those that don't have ready access to a kiln already). It talks about kiln building, and never uses the word raku.
Basically, however, this is a raku book, with lots of interesting variations. "Barrel" and "pit" kilns (mentioned in the subtitle) turn out to be just more forms of raku, rather than new kinds of homemade kilns. It contains many creative firing ideas with wonderful results, generously shared by a number of contributors. Along the way, of course, they do tell you how to put together firing chambers for these firing techniques. So it does provide some alternative kiln construction guidance with variations, but not the quantity I was expecting. And the firing techniques were an unexpected bonus.
In style, this is a thin "coffee-table book" - lots of great photos, widely set lines of type, artistic white space. But the content is fascinating and invaluable to anyone who wants to do firings that are more interesting than simply closing the door and turning on the heat. Initially, I was disappointed when I saw how the content of the book was padded out with white space, but after I started reading I realized how much great information was in it.
I would like to see much more expanded content (not counting the gallery & appendices, it is 89 pages). However, this does provide plenty of ideas to try for quite some while. I just need to find a different alternnative kiln book for when I'm not doing raku style firings. (The publisher could really help out here, by giving the table of contents, which really does give an accurate idea of the book content).
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