Well that was scary!
The other night Anne-Marie Van Brunt was working late in her basement studio determined to finish a piece that had been full fused and was now ready to slump into a shape using a mold.
She placed this special piece on the mold to shape it into a decorative plate, at the bottom of her kiln, and prepared to enter the fusing schedule on the Bartlett electronic programmer.
Anne-Marie got distracted, as is often the case; she checked something on another firing page, and then entered the fusing schedule.
Just before turning in for the night Anne-Marie went down to check on how things were advancing by reviewing the stage that was currently displayed.
On the way down the stairs it occurred to her that she might have entered a full fuse schedule instead of the slumping schedule required! Upon review she realized that that is exactly what she had done!
Panic set in and she tried to figure out what she could do, with NO help available at this time of night.
Thankfully Anne-Marie realized that the temperature hadn’t reached the 1445 degree temperature that would have possibly ruined the piece, as well as the mold holding it.
She decided to cancel the whole fusing schedule and entered the correct program. The kiln seemed to know at which stage it should resume because of the current temperature.
Anne-Marie crossed her fingers, said a few prayers and called it a day.
In the morning she cautiously opened the lid, holding her breath the whole time….and it was perfect!
