It took me awhile but I see what you mean about the eel. You and I are very visual people, hence your interest in photography. The combed glass is sitting on a tin lid from a Cadbury's Roses Giant Tin emptied by you and the rest of the gannets in the family. You know, those members of the family that can eat pounds of sweets and cakes and not put on an ounce of weight. The glass is 24.5 cm in diameter, plenty big enough for a bowl. I did use a BBQ fork, making one pass each time I opened the kiln. I was of course wearing my protective glasses and heast resistant gloves which come up to my elbows. After one pass, the glass has cooled sufficiently that the fork does not pass through easily enough for a second go. It would be easier if I had a top opening kiln instead of a front opening door hinged on the left. Being left handed, I open the door with my left hand and comb with my right. Good job I'm a bit ambidextrous. I knit right handed but write with my left.
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It took me awhile but I see what you mean about the eel. You and I are very visual people, hence your interest in photography. The combed glass is sitting on a tin lid from a Cadbury's Roses Giant Tin emptied by you and the rest of the gannets in the family. You know, those members of the family that can eat pounds of sweets and cakes and not put on an ounce of weight. The glass is 24.5 cm in diameter, plenty big enough for a bowl. I did use a BBQ fork, making one pass each time I opened the kiln. I was of course wearing my protective glasses and heast resistant gloves which come up to my elbows. After one pass, the glass has cooled sufficiently that the fork does not pass through easily enough for a second go. It would be easier if I had a top opening kiln instead of a front opening door hinged on the left. Being left handed, I open the door with my left hand and comb with my right. Good job I'm a bit ambidextrous. I knit right handed but write with my left.