Raku Experiment

Remember these little guys from a few weeks ago?  I decided to raku fire all of them.  Really I didn't have much to do with the actual firing.  I put wax on them (to keep the glaze off the parts that I wanted to be naked.) and then Allen then took them to Gaston College and glazed them and fired for me.  

When they'd been fired, I ran them through the dish washer to clean all the soot off of them. 

And then followed that by a little shoe polish on the black parts and some future wax on the whole thing to give it a nice shine.  I am delighted with the outcome!  

I gave the shoe polish/future wax treatment to the other raku piece I had from last year.  Now Allen's finger marks are shiny.