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Crushed Raku Reduction Chamber

Empty paint can, used as a raku reduction chamber (technicque developed by Jan Babcock), with corregated cardboard inside, used for smaller raku pieces. Combustion in the sealed container lowered the internal pressure so that the can crushed when cooling. Test pieces was sucessfully recovered, once we found a screwdriver to pry things apart.

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Uploaded on December 30, 2005
Taken on December 30, 2005