RELAYS...Not a Race!

The kiln saga continued a bit longer than I had anticipated...We got the receptacles replace thanks to a friend who also is an electrician.... I set up a quick program...and poof.....NOTHING! No heat! AAAARGH! And as is typical of human behavior, I tried it again. Nope...nothing happening. THe other kiln was fine but the Evenheat was clearly non functional.

I called the kiln guy who came out and told me it was likely the computer board....replacement and labor would run upwards of $600!
I don't want to tell you how much I have already put into the repair of these kilns already. He said he would reach out to the kiln techs at Evenheat and get back to me. The next day he came back and replaced all three relays.....and thankfully that solved the issue. The bill was more manageable...so now I've got to get busy. I have commissions waiting to be created and I have to figure out how to sell more glass so I can at least break even this year. Thats basically my goal...have a hobby that pays for itself. 

Wish me luck!

Who Knew?

My blog doesn't get written all that often, nor do that many people read it....that said, imagine my surprise to learn my blog made the top 35 glass blogs accordig to someone....#14 in fact. Who knew? There are numerous great glass blogs out there...so if you are interested in the actual list, check out : DISCLAIMER: I don't know anything about these folks and why they publish an annual list....but the list itself seems legit. I've looked at many of these sites...some I have frequented over the past number of years...and some are new to me. It's always great to learn from others.

Electricity and Elements

Just when I thought we were good to go....more electical work was needed... I am fortuante that one of my son's childhood besties is an electrician,so I made the call. He has a full time job so repairs were put on hiold until he had the bandwidth. He came by this weekend and resolved what we hope is the final repair of our outlets to solve my kiln problems. It's really in the nick of time. I do have some commissions coming up and I need to dedicate some serious studio time to those projects. I probably won't have time to post for another few weeks....but I will be back!

One kiln up and running

My Skutt was successfully repaired but kiln #2 is still down. I'm waiting for new elements to arrive. Hopefully that's all that is needed for the repair. In the meantime I had enough bandwidth to get some new items made in time for the Decemebr show. ...and I had a commission that will be gifted tonight... A gnome stake... I hope they like it!