Hello all,
This is my first query to Orchid. I work in the UK and have been
making/ trying to make mokume in a friends kiln. Having established
that this is something I would really like to explore further I have
decided to invest in a kiln. I was wondering if anyone can recommend
a supplier in the UK. I would need some way of regulating the
temperature and my budget is not very large…
Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Helen Smith @helen
If I might be so sacrilegious to make a suggestion:
Buy your mokume gane from Reactive Metals. Pattern your own, or but
it already to go! Bill Seeley, the owner, is also an Orchid member,
and a “guru” in his own right.
Of course, its the easy way out… but its the easy way out! 
All the best,
Dave
P.S. The only place I know to buy mokume gane sheet!
Dave Sebaste
Sebaste Studio and
Carolina Artisans’ Gallery
Charlotte, NC (USA)
dave@sebaste.com
Hi Helen,
Hoben Davis International, is the company from where you can find a
kiln,
they manufacture different sizes with temp controller and also with
temp programer . I do not have their address but I know that you will
find the right type of kiln from them, they are famous in jewellery
manufacturing equipment supplier in UK.
Luckily I found an old address of Hoben International Limited,
Spencroft Road, Newcastle-under-Lyme,
Staffordshire ST5 9JE, England.
Telephone: 01782 622285.
Facsimile: 01782 636982
email: invest@hoben.co.uk
web site: http://www.hoben.co.uk
Hope this will be useful bit of
With Best regards to all my Orchidian Brothers and sisters. May God
bless us all with Total Health ( Physical- Mental - Social and
Spiritual).
Umesh Chauhan
Mumbai - India.
Helen
Celtic Kiln Care in Newport South Wales do a good open top kiln with
electronic programmer for about six hundred pounds. Ask about the
hobbytech 45
Tel: 01633 271455 No web site
You can also try Potterycrafts Ltd. in Stoke on Trent
Tel: 01782745000 http://www.potterycrafts.co.uk
Also
Bath Potters Supplies
01225 337046
http://www.bathpotters.demon.co.uk
Helen 46or equipment intended for jewellery use try HS Walsh
www.hswalsh.com They call them furnaces and the little one I am
looking at is UKP 1082 - ouch. Pottery equipment may be more
affordable but I don’t think it will have the same temperature
control.
Let us know how you get on.
Andy Parker, Agate House Lapidary
Ulverston, Cumbria, England
@Andy_Parker
Tel: 01229 584023