Surplus

[offcntr]

So, normally when I load the glaze kiln, I go through three stages over the course of the day:

1. Oh God, I don't have enough pots.
2. Oh God, I've got too many pots.
3. Whew! I've got plenty of pots, and in fact have a head start on the next firing.

And I generally wind up with somewhere between six and a dozen ware boards of pots to stash in my space until next time.

So this last time, after producing this:

I ended up with this:

That's right. Two pots. One of them a refire. This is the closest I've ever come to a perfect load in all my years loading kilns.

Just wow.

ETA: Okay, so I found a partial ware board in my space that never made it into the kiln room. Holding three more pots. Still pretty amazing, I think.

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[danthered]

I can't tell if I'm underthinking or overthinking, but I'm confuzzed. First pic shows many pots. Second pic says "Ended up with this" and shows two pots. Are these the two that didn't come out well; everything else worked?

[offcntr]

These are the two that didn't fit in after everything else got loaded onto that enormous kiln-car.

None of them fired yet, as of the picture.