Today’s article was sparked by a question from a reader:

“Have you ever slumped a bottle vertically in the kiln, I want to achieve an artistic slump rather than a melted pile.  I figured if anyone had tried it it would be you.  Thanks, Andy”

Oddly enough, I hadn’t ever tried it, so I thought I would give it a go.

First I measured how deep my kiln is, this helps tell me how tall my bottles can be.