Vince Pitelka
 Appalachian Center for Craft
 Tennessee Technological University

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Kilns at the 
Appalachian Center for Craft

We have a wide assortment of kilns, with space (and usually extra bricks) for experimental kiln projects.  We also maintain a big pile of dirt/sand dedicated to pitfire and bonfire processes.  Our current inventory of kilns includes:

bulletOne 1-cubic foot L&L EasyFire programmable test kiln
bulletThree 7-cubic foot L&L EasyFire e23T programmable toploader electrics
bulletOne 12-c.f. Unique programmable frontloader electric
bulletOne 25-c.f. L&L EL3048 programmable frontloader electric
bulletOne 50-c.f. downdraft gas kiln
bulletTwo 25-c.f. Norman updraft gas kilns
bulletOne 4-c.f. gas downdraft test kiln
bulletOne 6-c.f. gas updraft test kiln
bulletOne 5-c.f. gas raku "bell" kiln
bulletOne 60-c.f. gas downdraft salt kiln (see picture to the right)
bulletOne 20-c.f. gas crossdraft soda kiln
bulletOne 80-c.f. Bourry-box two-chamber crossdraft wood kiln - second chamber is salt (see Wood Firing page)
bulletOne 200-c.f. "hoggama" hybrid anagama/groundhog wood kiln  (see Wood Firing page)

If you have questions about the kilns or facilities, please contact me.  

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