Cress Ceramic Kiln - ET18

The Cress E-Series kilns are built with superior craftsmanship, featuring robust, high-quality insulation and durable heating elements designed for exceptional energy efficiency and longevity. Most models in the E-Series include heat reflective stands, significantly reducing floor temperatures during firing and enhancing overall safety. Whether you're working with intricate pottery, porcelain, stoneware, or experimental ceramic projects, these kilns offer versatility and precision to meet your creative demands. Designed for durability and ease of maintenance, Cress E-Series kilns ensure consistent temperature uniformity, providing optimal results every firing. Cress E-Series kilns deliver unmatched performance, making them the ideal choice for artists seeking reliability, consistency, and excellence in their ceramic work. This kiln is a part of the ET-Series units which come with 3" brick, which retains heat more than the 2.5" brick of standard models. Controller Selection Prodigy Touchscreen Smart Controller Upgrade your kiln experience with the Prodigy Touchscreen Digital Kiln Controller, designed to bring intuitive, precise control directly to your fingertips. Featuring a user-friendly, full-color touchscreen interface, the Prodigy Controller simplifies kiln operation and programming, offering clear visuals and straightforward navigation for beginners and experts alike. Easily customize firing programs with advanced ramp-and-hold capabilities, real-time monitoring of kiln conditions, and the ability to save multiple custom firing profiles for future use. Enhanced safety features include detailed diagnostics, over-temperature alerts, and data logging to help protect your work and your kiln. The Prodigy Controller is built to seamlessly integrate with your kiln, making it an essential upgrade for artists seeking convenience, precision, and peace of mind in every firing. Standard Cress Digital Controller The standard Cress Digital Controller provides reliable, straightforward kiln operation with essential digital accuracy and ease of use. This controller features simple programming with preset firing profiles, allowing you to efficiently manage firing cycles for ceramics, pottery, and glass projects. With intuitive interface controls and clear temperature displays, the standard digital controller ensures consistent, precise results every time, making it a dependable choice for artists seeking simplicity and reliability in their kiln operations. Section Design For those with limited studio access or installation constraints, the Cress sectional kiln option offers a smart, flexible solution. These kilns are built in multiple interlocking sections, making it easy to move and install them in tight or hard-to-reach spaces. Once assembled, the kiln performs exactly like a one-piece model, maintaining full structural integrity and insulation. Cress Clean Air Vent System With all ceramic and glass kilns, we highly recommend that they be vented to the outside. But why? First and foremost - is your safety! When heating various materials in your kiln, many have byproducts that burn off and are released into the air. These byproducts are toxic and you don't want that mixing with the air you're breathing. The Cress Clean-Air Vent System effectively draws these fumes from multiple zones within your kiln, improving air quality by venting harmful gases safely outside through standard ducting. This specialized ventilation process promotes better airflow, enhancing temperature uniformity and ensuring that each piece in your kiln is heated evenly. By using the Cress Clean-Air Vent System, you'll improve both the safety and longevity of your kiln, significantly reducing wear on kiln elements and interior components. Customers often find that their venting system more than pays for itself through reduced maintenance and longer kiln life. Furniture Kit Furniture Kits are necessary accessories for any kiln owner as firing directly on the kiln floor is not only bad for the kiln, but your pieces as well. In addition to this, they're also useful! A furniture kit will allow you to stack multiple shelves on top of one another in order to maximize the useable space when firing smaller pieces. If you have one that will fit this kiln size already, then you're in luck! But if not, you'll want to ensure you add this to your order as well. Furniture Kit includes: Two (2) 13" Full Shelves One (1) Half Shelf Three (3) 1/2" Posts Three (3) 1" Posts Three (3) 2" Posts Three (3) 3" Posts Three (3) 4" Posts Three (3) 5" Posts Three (3) 6" Posts Kiln furniture can be special ordered separately, but if done so the cost is ~10-20% higher and will incur a separate shipping charge. It's best to include this on your initial order of the kiln. * Received shelves may contain surface imperfections such as scratches, discoloration or rough edge. These possible imperfections are understood and accepted by the buyer.