cremation

I don't know about your local emission regulations, but I wouldn't cremate a cat or any other body in your kiln. The residue creates a flux and will cause soft refractory brick to melt, and also it will affect your elements. Crematoriums use very hard dense refractory bricks for that reason. If your kiln is ceramic fibre it may cause a similar reaction. I wouldn't advise it.

Dave

red deer - no problem. i creamted my 2 cats and will fire my dog when the time comes.

i used a kiln for one, and a portable raku cloth kiln for the other.

i went to basic red - wasn't concerned on the cone. i used a wide brush to gather the guys up, and have them in a jar waiting for their brother the dog.

i saw no problem with flux, etc. simple ash dust.

way back around 1995 i checked into creamtion in general as a business potential, and was told by the california funeral directors association that there are no regulations for pet creamation, only humans. this was confirmed from several pet cemetaries i talked to as well.

i fired the guys on a basic kiln shelf, with kilnwash.

see ya

steve

You guys are sick!!! And quite humorous. :o)

Tom

You guys ever tried adding the ashes to a glaze? A novel idea - urn with the dog on the outside instead of inside!! =) JM

that's how my wife wants to go! she'll BE the urn, not in it!

i suspect in reality the ash amount is too small to have much affect, unless a dusting on the shoulder is enough.

see ya

steve

In article , steve snipped-for-privacy@aol.com writes

Curiously it doth not a glaze make!

Paul Soldner has written about this; he found the best use of cremation

*ash* was for decorating. However I see no reason why it could not be incorporated into the clay body that the pot is made out of.

Steve