Mobile Alabama Gas Kiln
Maria Spies Pottery
Mobile_Gas_Catenary Arch_kiln

Backyard catenary arch gas-fired kiln

We built this catenary arch gas-fired kiln in Mobile Alabama in 1977. The design is a catenary arch with a downdraft exhaust. The brick came from dismantled ships boilers one backpack load at a time. The ship debris was headed to Japan and China as scrap. The brick went to our back yard, hard and soft, arch, straight and splits. One can also see an outer layer of red brick. The kiln was cone 10 gas fired - it fired great!

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