your anagama parts sizes

updated mon 27 oct 03

Michael Morris on fri 24 oct 03

This letter is intended for anyone out there that has an Anagama Kiln or similar Wood Kiln:

 

I would just like to get a few examples of the different sizes or ratios of the following components of your kilns.  As to compare them to the kiln I am currently building.

 

1)grate size in square feet or inches

2)firebox floor area(only)

3)kiln floor area(entire)

4)primary air size in square inches

5)flue length, height, width

6)collecting chamber size

7)chimney diameter

8)chimney height

9)length of kiln interior

10)width of kiln at the front wall, widest point, and at the beginning of the flue

 

I will assure you I am only using this as a reference to what has already been drawn out on paper and cross referenced in the books.  I will not be copying any of your plans for my kiln, rest assured.  Thank you to anyone who wishes to share this information.

 

MM

 

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Harold Miller on sun 26 oct 03

I don't have any precise plans of my own, but can offer some references.

This web page includes the basic plan of the anagama that Shiho Kanzaki
built with Karl Beamer in Pennsylvania:
http://www.anagama.jp/En/articles/pic_kiln.html

These pages link to fairly well detailed photos, along with discussion
of dimensions:
http://www.anagama.jp/En/hibikidou/index.html
http://www.anagama.jp/En/articles/log_book.html.
The latter once included the detailed plans (drawings) that were
published in _The Log Book_, issue 6, but now you'll need to get a
back issue (print):
http://homepage.eircom.net/%7Ethelogbook/
Virtually every issue of the _The Log Book_ includes plans for some
type of wood burning kiln. In contrast, the book about wood firing
written by the editors of this journal has many pictures, but very few
plans, dimensions, etc.