Electric Kilns is an on-line shop for low-cost table-top kilns: the UltraLite, the Kitiki Mini-Kiln, and the Paragon BlueBird, Caldera, FireFly, Fusion 6, Fusion 7, Home Artist, SC-2, SC-3, and Xpress.

They can all use a regular, single-phase, 230V 13A mains socket, so will work anywhere in the EU. Apart from the UltraLite, they all have manual rotary controllers or digital programmers.

They're suitable for annealing beads, firing Art Clay, BronzClay, and PMC metal clays, casting glass, glass fusing, firing ceramics, china painting, enamelling, fusing dichroic glasses, heat treating metals, laboratory testing, lampwork, making mixed-media jewellery, melting silver, porcelain, pottery, raku, sagging, slumping, stained glass, and stoneware.

They're ideal for your home, college, school, university, course venue, craft centre, jewellery studio, pottery business, ceramics cafe, engineering facilty, medical laboratory, research unit, or technical workshop.

Cherry Heaven TV has made a short on-line programme featuring some of the kilns. To play or pause the Electric Kilns Product Review, just click the Cherry Heaven TV player above. The player uses Flash, available on nearly all computers.

Cherry Heaven TV has also made a selection of radio and tv programmes about working with kilns. To look at these, use the more link below the menu bar near the top of the page, then choose Radio or TV.

You can shop here now: on line or by phone with a card, or by post with a cheque. Kiln prices include a shelf kit, a door or lid safety-switch where appropriate, VAT, and insured door-to-door UK-mainland delivery: there are no other charges.

This internet resource belongs to Cherry Heaven, a shop in Corfe Castle village near the National Trust Estate. Cherry Heaven sells a diverse selection of exclusive essentials and luxuries. To look at Cherry Heaven, use the Cherry Heaven link above the menu bar near the top of the page.

Cherry Heaven is an EU distributor for Paragon Kilns made in the US, Advance Kilns made in Canada, Efco Kilns made in Germany, Kitiki Mini-Kilns made in Turkey, and UltraLite Kilns made in the US.

Cherry Heaven is a UK distributor for Art Clay made by Aida Chemical Industries in Japan and BronzClay made in the US, and an EU distributor for AccentGold For Silver paint and Metal Clay Veneer, both made in the US.

Cherry Heaven has been commended for outstanding performance as one of Paragon's 2007 top-selling distributors: a pleasing outcome since the UK is one third the area of Texas and one fortieth the area of the US.

Electric Kilns combine the best mix of ease-of-use, practical features, robust construction, and low door-to-door prices. When comparing them to similar kilns from other manufacturers or resellers, there are important differences:

Kilns made outside the UK have been re-engineered and comprehensively tested for the UK and Europe. They work on a regular, single-phase, 230V supply. 230V is the EU standard, although there are minor local and national variations.

They're CE Marked and comply with EU safety standards. The heating elements are either embedded in ceramic fibre, or the kiln is fitted with a door or lid switch: an important safety feature.

Apart from the manual UltraLite, Caldera-S, and FireFly-S, they all have digital programmers. You can set up and re-use four sequences: mixes of heating, holding, and cooling segments which will run automatically and then stop. There are no restrictive features such as single-sequence use or material-specific programmes.

Finally, prices. For a chosen firing-chamber volume and maximum temperature, US-made kilns cost less than kilns made in the UK, Western Europe, and Japan. To complicate price comparison, many suppliers show internet prices that don't include VAT and delvery. Other suppliers only reveal prices in a paper catalogue or after a lengthy phone call.

Choosing the right kiln is important, especially if you're not sure which materials you'll want to work with. If you need help, mail or call.

US-made kilns often have live heating elements that are exposed whenever the door or lid is open. To comply with EU safety regulations, an additional switch, included in the price, is fitted to cut off the power whenever the kiln is opened. Exposed live elements are very dangerous, and illegal in the UK.

To learn more about table-top kilns that can use a regular mains socket, such as the UltraLite Kiln, the Kitiki Mini-Kiln, and the Paragon BlueBird, Caldera, FireFly, Fusion 6, Fusion 7, Home Artist, SC2, SC3, and Xpress, use the links below the menu bar near the top of the page.

To learn about larger floor-standing wired-in kilns, such as the Paragon Fusion, GL, Ovation, and Pearl for glass, the KM knife making kilns, and the Dragon, Iguana, Janus, TNF, Viking, and Vulcan for ceramics, dolls, porcelain, pottery, raku, and stoneware, transfer to Paragon Kilns, using the Paragon Kilns link above the menu bar near the top of the page.

But, before moving on, three table-top kilns are worth a preview:

The Kitiki Mini-Kiln is a low-cost small-scale jewellery kiln that can use a regular mains socket. It's a 1000°C, four sided, rectangular, ceramic-fibre, front-opening kiln, with an easy-to-use, 4-key ramp hold digital controller.

The Kitiki Mini-Kiln is suitable for small-scale work: Art Clay, PMC, and BronzClay metal clays, Accent Gold, Image Transfer Solution, Metal Clay Veneer, decals, painting china, dichroic glass, glass bead annealing, glass fusing, enamelling, and mixed-media jewellery.

The Paragon SC-2 is a low-cost home-business jewellery kiln that can use a regular mains socket. It's a 1095°C, four sided, square, ceramic-fibre, front-opening kiln, with a digital programmer.

The Paragon SC2 is suitable for Art Clay, Bronze Clay, and PMC metal clays, Accent Gold, Metal Clay Veneer, painting china, glass-bead annealing, applying decals, dichroic glasses, enamelling, jewellery, lost-wax casting, low-fire ceramics, glass fusing, and small-scale glass sagging and slumping.

It's available with a bead-annealing door, a heat-resistant glass viewing-window, or a bead-annealing door and a heat resistant glass viewing-window, making it very versatile.

The Paragon Xpress E-12A, made for Cherry Heaven, is a mixed-media kiln that can use a regular mains socket. It's a 1230°C, four-sided, rectangular, firebrick, front-opening kiln, with a digital programmer.

The Paragon Xpress E12A is suitable for most materials and processes, particularly those needing a very long, high temperature, firing sequence. It's ideal for BronzClay as it's large enough for the necessary charcoal-filled container.

It's available with a bead-annealing door, a heat-resistant glass viewing-window, or a bead-annealing door and a heat resistant glass viewing-window, making it very versatile.

Art Clay, sometimes called silver clay, gold clay, metal clay, or precious-metal clay, is made by Aida Chemical Industries in Japan: it's a composite clay-like material, made of fine silver or gold powder and a harmless organic binder.

As it's fired, the binder vapourises and the metal powder sinters, leaving solid 999 silver or 22 carat gold: real metal, not something that just looks like metal.

To learn more about Art Clay, and related products, use the more link below the menu bar near the top of the page, then choose Art Clay.

The kiln prices include the recommended shelf kit, and the legally-necessary lid or door safety switch where appropriate.

Paragon SC series kilns are usually in stock, for next-day delivery: other Paragon kilns are made to order. The factory does not have a warehouse, and it's not feasible to showcase the extensive range here, especially as some kilns are protectively packed for shipping and in crates or on pallets.

The on-line shop includes kilns, shelf paper, programmers, ceramic blocks, ceramic cloths, digital pyrometers, reminder timers, fire extinguishers, glare-resistant glasses, heat-resistant gloves, kiln shelves, kiln tables, and other tools and accessories. Alternatively, visit the Cherry Heaven Shop in Corfe Castle village.

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