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Paragon Kilns are ideal for firing Art
Clay and PMC metal clays, making jewellery, adding gold highlights,
annealing glass beads, fusing dichroic glass, firing ceramics, pottery,
stoneware, raku, baking polymer clays, stained glass, lampwork, melting
silver, casting glass, sagging, slumping, china painting, porcelain
dolls, enamelling, and many more applications.
We offer a number of different models of
Kilns.
Select this link to purchase any of
our Paragon Kiln Range.
The Paragon SC-2
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The Paragon SC-2 is ideal
for Art Clay, PMC, Accent Gold, Metal Clay Veneer, Fimo Polymer
Clay, china painting, dichroics, enamelling, jewellery, lost-wax
casting, low-fire ceramics, and small-scale glass fusing, sagging,
and slumping. It's a 1095°C, four-sided, square, front-opening
kiln, with an easy-to-use, ramp-hold, Sentry Xpress 3-key digital
programmer. |
This Kiln can use a regular mains socket,
and is small enough to use in your home, school, craft workshop, jewellery
studio, or take to a course venue, as it only weighs about 16kg.
The outer steel case measures 336mm x 311mm x 400mm, and is slotted
for air circulation so it keeps cool. The door opens 180°, so
you won't burn your hand taking your work out. There is also a top
vent for lost-wax casting and other processes that release fumes.
The ceramic-fibre firing chamber, enclosed in an inner steel case,
measures 199mm x 204mm x 145mm internally, and heats from both sides
and the back, with the fast-firing elements safely embedded in the
fibre.
Uniquely, the SC-2 kiln has a sheathed thermocouple which prevents
the possible corrosion and eventual failure of the bi-metallic tip
usually caused by pollutants produced whilst heating some types of
glass.
The electronic display prompts for heating rate, target temperature,
and hold time, making it easy to set up and re-use accurate drying,
heating, holding, and cooling sequences.
The recommended furniture kit for
the SC2, which is included in the price consists of one 139mm x 139mm
x 6mm ceramic-fibre shelf suitable for Art Clay and PMC, but not china
paint, dichroic glasses, enamels, or fused glass.
If you want to do china painting, enamelling, or glass work, you'll
need a thicker shelf and four shelf posts. These come as an extra
kit: one 178mm x 178mm x 15mm cordierite shelf and four 25mm x 25mm
x 12mm posts. Kiln shelf paper is simpler and more convenient to use
than glass separator for stopping enamels and glass sticking to the
shelf.
Cordierite is a magnesium aluminium silicate that resists thermal
distortion and fracture. A thick shelf on post, heats and cools evenly
which is particularly important for glass work.
Depending on the sizes of your pieces and the number of pieces you
want to fire, three shelves can be stacked to make better use of your
time so you may want more than one furniture kit.
The Paragon SC2 is a good first-kiln
and is popular with metal clay artists, particularly those also making
enamel and glass jewellery, and is ideal for a studio running jewellery
courses. It's compact and easy to move, uses a regular mains socket,
stays cool on the outside, is fully programmable, heats and cools
quickly, and it's inexpensive to run.
Its only minor limitation is that, although 1095°C is hot enough
for low-fire ceramics, it's not hot enough for normal ceramics, porcelain,
pottery, and stoneware which need a 1260°C or 1290°C kiln.
The Paragon SC-2B
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The Paragon SC-2B door includes a
bead-anealing letter-box style door, 165mm x 64mm, and a bead-mandrel
holder. Otherwise, it's the same as the SC2. |
The Paragon SC-2W
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The Paragon SC-2W door
includes a heat-resistant glass viewing-window, 50mm x 50mm. Otherwise,
it's the same as the SC2. |
The Paragon SC-2BW
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The Paragon SC-2BW door
includes a bead-anealing letter-box style door, 165mm x 64mm,
a bead-mandrel holder, and a heat-resistant glass viewing-window,
75mm x 25mm. Otherwise, it's the same as the SC2. |
Select this
link to purchase any of our Paragon Kiln Range.
The Paragon SC-3
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The Paragon SC-3 is ideal for Art
Clay, PMC, Accent Gold, Metal Clay Veneer, Fimo Polymer Clay,
china painting, dichroics, enamelling, jewellery, lost-wax casting,
low-fire ceramics, and small-scale glass fusing, sagging, and
slumping. It's a 1095°C, four-sided, square, front-opening
kiln, with an easy-to-use, ramp-hold, Sentry Xpress 3-key digital
programmer. |
The SC-3 can also use a regular mains socket.
It's small enough to use in your home, school, craft workshop, jewellery
studio, or take to a course venue, as it only weighs about 18kg. It's
popular with metal clay artists, particularly those also making enamel
and glass jewellery.
The outer steel case measures 336mm x 311mm x 432mm, and is slotted
for air circulation so it keeps cool. The door opens 180°, so
you won't burn your hand taking your work out, and there's a top vent
for lost-wax casting and other processes that may release fumes.
The ceramic-fibre firing chamber, enclosed in an inner steel case,
measures 199mm x 204mm x 195mm internally, and heats from both sides
and the back, with the fast-firing elements safely embedded in the
fibre.
The SC-3 kiln has a sheathed thermocouple which prevents the possible
corrosion and eventual failure of the bi-metallic tip usually caused
by pollutants produced whilst heating some types of glass.
The electronic display prompts for heating rate, target temperature,
and hold time, making it easy to set up and re-use accurate drying,
heating, holding, and cooling sequences.
The recommended furniture kit for
the SC2, which is included in the price consists of one 139mm x 139mm
x 6mm ceramic-fibre shelf suitable for Art Clay and PMC, but not china
paint, dichroic glasses, enamels, or fused glass.
If you want to do china painting, enamelling, or glass work, you'll
need a thicker shelf and four shelf posts. These come as an extra
kit: one 178mm x 178mm x 15mm cordierite shelf and four 25mm x 25mm
x 12mm posts. Kiln shelf paper is simpler and more convenient to use
than glass separator for stopping enamels and glass sticking to the
shelf.
Cordierite is a magnesium aluminium silicate that resists thermal
distortion and fracture. A thick shelf, on posts, heats and cools
evenly which is particularly important for glass work.
Depending on the sizes of your pieces and the number of pieces you
want to fire, five shelves can be stacked to make better use of your
time, so you may want more than one furniture kit.
The Paragon SC3 is a good first-kiln, popular
with metal clay artists, particularly those also making enamel and
glass jewellery, and ideal for a studio running jewellery courses.
It's compact and easy to move, it uses a regular mains socket, stays
cool on the outside, is fully programmable, heats and cools quickly,
and it's inexpensive to run.
The firing chamber is 1.34 times higher inside than that of the SC2,
so will accommodate taller pieces of work or two extra shelves, making
five in all.
Although 1095°C is hot enough for low-fire ceramics, it's not
hot enough for normal ceramics, porcelain, pottery, and stoneware,
they need a 1260°C or 1290°C kiln.
The Paragon SC-3B
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The Paragon SC-3B door
includes a bead-anealing letter-box style door, 165mm x 64mm,
and a bead-mandrel holder. Otherwise, it's the same as the SC3.
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The Paragon SC-3W
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The Paragon SC-3W door
includes a heat-resistant glass viewing-window, 50mm x 50mm. Otherwise,
it's the same as the SC3. |
The Paragon SC-3BW
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The Paragon SC-3BW door
includes a bead-anealing letter-box style door, 165mm x 64mm,
a bead-mandrel holder, and a heat-resistant glass viewing-window,
75mm x 25mm. Otherwise, it's the same as the SC3. |
Select this
link to purchase any of our Paragon Kiln Range.
The Paragon BlueBird
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The Paragon BlueBird is
ideal for annealing glass beads. It's a 650°C, four-sided,
rectangular, front-opening kiln, with an easy-to-use, ramp-hold,
Sentry Xpress 3-key digital programmer. |
The Blue Bird can use a regular mains socket,
and is small enough to use in your home, school, craft workshop, or
jewellery studio, as it only weighs about 22kg.
The outer steel case measures 966mm x 458mm x 356mm, and is slotted
for air circulation so it keeps cool. There are two separate outward-opening
letter-box style doors, each 254mm x 70mm, giving a total door width
of 508mm.
The whole ceramic-fibre firing chamber measures 508mm x 127mm x 127mm
internally, and heats from the top, with the fast-firing elements
safely embedded in the fibre.
The electronic display prompts for heating rate, target temperature,
and hold time, making it easy to set up and re-use accurate drying,
heating, holding, and cooling sequences.
The Blue Bird was designed for batch-annealing
glass beads threaded onto bead rods, or mandrels. Although it has
a wide bead-door, making it time and energy efficient, 650°C is
not hot enough for most other materials and processes, so there's
no recommended furniture kit.
The Blue Bird elements are embedded in ceramic fibre, an important
safety feature if you like to add and remove bead rods whilst the
kiln is on.
The Paragon BlueBird XL
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The Paragon BlueBird XL is a dream
kiln for the glass bead enthusiast. It safely anneals the glass
to prevent breakage during cooling. |
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link to purchase any of our Paragon Kiln Range.
The Paragon FireFly
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The Paragon FireFly is
ideal for low-budget small-scale work, Art Clay, PMC, Accent Gold,
Metal Clay Veneer, Fimo Polymer Clay, china painting, dichroics,
enamels, jewellery, glass fusing, sagging, slumping, ceramics,
porcelain, pottery, and stoneware. It's a 1290°C cone 10,
four-sided, square, top-opening kiln, with an easy-to-use digital
pyrometer. |
It can
use a regular mains socket, and to comply with safety regulations,
it's fitted with an additional switch that cuts off the power when
the lid is opened. It's small enough to use in your home, school,
jewellery workshop, or ceramics studio, as it only weighs about 20kg.
The outer steel case measures 470mm x 381mm x 305mm, including the
controller housing, the steel base, and other hardware.
The firebrick firing chamber measures 203mm x 203mm x 114mm internally,
and heats from all sides, with the fast-firing elements lying in grooves
in the 64mm thick bricks.
The Fire Fly doesn't have a programmer, however, the controller allows
you to adjust the heating and cooling rate. The digital pyrometer,
included in the price, gives you accurate temperature feedback so
that you can learn more about materials and processes. The pyrometer
can be swapped quickly with the thermocouple.
The recommended furniture kit for the Fire
Fly, included in the price, consists of one 178mm x 178mm x 15mm cordierite
shelf, four 25mm x 25mm x 12mm posts, and a bag of glass separator.
Kiln shelf paper is simpler and more convenient to use than glass
separator for stopping enamels and glass sticking to the shelf.
Cordierite is a magnesium aluminium silicate that resists thermal
distortion and fracture. A thick shelf, on posts, heats and cools
evenly: partuicularly important for glass work.
Depending on the sizes of your pieces and the number of pieces you
want to fire, three shelves can be stacked to make better use of your
time, so you may want more than one furniture kit. An extra kit consists
of one 178mm x 178mm x 15mm cordierite shelf and four 25mm x 25mm
x 25mm posts.
The FireFly is a versatile kiln for small-scale
everything in your craft workshop or ceramics studio, it's compact
and easy to move, it uses a regular mains socket, it heats and cools
quickly, and it's inexpensive to run. It's popular with glass artists,
particularly those also making enamel, ceramic, and silver jewellery.
1290°C kilns are generally used for ceramics, porcelain, pottery,
and stoneware.
Select this
link to purchase any of our Paragon Kiln Range.
Shelf Kits and Accessories
We also offer shelf kits for the SC series and the
Firefly Kilns, and safety gloves and glasses.
Select this
link to purchase any of our Shelf kits and accessories.
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