Electric 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 and gold, casting glass, sagging, slumping, china painting, porcelain dolls, enamelling, and heat treating.

If you want an inexpensive table-top kiln for making jewellery, keepsakes, or ornaments, at home or in a small studio, there are three kilns to look at first. The UltraLite: a pocket-sized on-off kiln. The Kitiki Mini-Kiln: a semi-programmable minikiln. And the Paragon SC-2: a fully-programmable small kiln.

Although they're described briefly below, you can learn more about the Ultra Lite Kiln, the Kitiki MiniKiln, and the Paragon SC2, using the appropriate link below the menu bar.

If you want a larger table-top or floor-standing kiln for making jewellery, or working with ceramics or glass, in a studio or a craft workshop, there are two dedicated internet resources:

Electric Kilns is 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, EZ Beader, FireFly, Home Artist, SC-2, SC-3, and Xpress. To transfer to Electric Kilns, use the Electric Kilns link above the menu bar.

Paragon Kilns also includes larger floor-standing kilns, such as the Paragon Fusion, GL, Ovation, and Pearl for glass, and the Paragon Dragon, Iguana, Janus, KM, TNF, Viking, and Vulcan for ceramics, dolls, knives, porcelain, pottery, raku, and stoneware. To transfer to Paragon Kilns, use the Paragon Kilns link above the menu bar.

The UltraLite Kiln is the smallest kiln in the UK, and ideal for drying and firing Art Clay and PMC silver clays, enamelling, glass fusing, gold leaf keum-boo work, and making jewellery.

The UltraLite Kiln is an 845°C, 250W, on-off, low-cost, compact, round kiln, with a lift-off lid. It can use a regular UK mains socket, it heats and cools quickly, and the elements are safely embedded in ceramic fibre.

The UltraLite Kiln is a good first-kiln for low-budget small-scale work in your home, school, craft workshop, or jewellery studio, or an arts centre running jewellery courses. It weighs just 1kg, so is easy to take to craft fairs, demonstrations, and exhibitions.

The UltraLite Kiln is bought as an Art Clay kiln, a craft kiln, an enamelling kiln, a glass-fusing kiln, a hobby kiln, a jewellery kiln, a keum-boo kiln, a PMC kiln, a precious metal clay kiln, a SilverClay kiln, a small kiln, or a trinkets kiln, depending on its perceived use.

To learn more about the Ultra Lite Kiln, and how to use it, you can transfer to a dedicated internet resource: use the UltraLite link below the menu bar.

The Kitiki Mini-Kiln is the most popular mini-kiln in the UK, and ideal for drying and firing Art Clay and PMC metal clays, Accent Gold, Metal Clay Veneer, china paints, decals, dichroic glass, glass fusing, enamels, and jewellery.

The Kitiki Mini-Kiln is a 1000°C, 700W, low-cost, four-sided, square, front-opening kiln, with an easy-to-use, 4-key digital controller. It can use a regular UK mains socket, it heats and cools quickly, and the elements are safely embedded in ceramic fibre.

The Kitiki Mini-Kiln is a good first-kiln for low-budget small-scale work in your home, school, craft workshop, or jewellery studio, or an arts centre running jewellery courses. It weighs just 6kg, so is easy to take to craft fairs, demonstrations, and exhibitions.

The Kitiki Mini-Kiln, sometimes called a Prometheus Kiln, is bought as an Art Clay kiln, a craft kiln, an enamel kiln, a glass fusing kiln, a hobby kiln, a jewellery kiln, a PMC kiln, a precious metal clay kiln, a SilverClay kiln, a small kiln, or a studio kiln, depending on its perceived use.

To learn more about the Kitiki MiniKiln, and other table-top kilns that can use a regular mains socket, you can transfer to a dedicated internet resource: use the Electric Kilns link above the menu bar.

The Paragon SC-2 is the most popular small kiln in the UK, and ideal for drying and firing Art Clay and PMC metal clays, Accent Gold, Metal Clay Veneer, china painting, dichroics, enamelling, jewellery, lost-wax casting, low-fire ceramics, glass fusing, and small-scale sagging and slumping.

The Paragon SC-2 is a 1095°C, 1745W, four-sided, square, front-opening kiln, with an easy-to-use, ramp-hold, Sentry Xpress 3-key digital programmer. It can use a regular UK mains socket, it heats and cools quickly, and the elements are safely embedded in ceramic fibre.

The Paragon SC-2 is a good first-kiln for your home, school, craft workshop, jewellery studio, or an arts centre running jewellery courses. It weighs just 17kg, so is easy to take to craft fairs, demonstrations, and exhibitions. It's robust, versatile, and reliable.

The Paragon SC Series kilns come in two versions, as the SC-2 and the 50mm taller SC-3. Both are available with a bead-annealing door, as the SC2B and SC3B, a glass viewing-window as the SC2W and SC3W, and a bead-annealing door and a glass viewing-window as the more versatile SC2BW and SC3BW.

The Paragon SC Series kilns are bought as annealing kilns, Art Clay kilns, bead kilns, craft kilns, dichroic glass kilns, enamelling kilns, glass kilns, glass fusing kilns, hobby kilns, jewellery kilns, metal clay kilns, PMC kilns, silver clay kilns, small kilns, or studio kilns, depending on their perceived use.

To learn more about the Paragon SC2, and other table-top kilns that can use a regular mains socket, you can transfer to a dedicated internet resource: use the Electric Kilns link above the menu bar.

If you want a larger table-top or floor-standing kiln for making jewellery, or working with ceramics or glass, in a studio or a craft workshop, there are two dedicated internet resources:

Electric Kilns is 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, EZ Beader, FireFly, Home Artist, SC-2, SC-3, and Xpress. To transfer to Electric Kilns, use the Electric Kilns link above the menu bar.

Paragon Kilns also includes larger floor-standing kilns, such as the Paragon Fusion, GL, Ovation, and Pearl for glass, and the Paragon Dragon, Iguana, Janus, KM, TNF, Viking, and Vulcan for ceramics, dolls, knives, porcelain, pottery, raku, and stoneware. To transfer to Paragon Kilns, use the Paragon Kilns link above the menu bar.

To look at larger photos, hold your mouse over the zoom buttons below. The photos are 480px x 360px and about 60KB so, if you're not on a fast internet connection, they'll take a short while to download.

Zoom: The UltraLite Kiln.

Zoom: The Kitiki Mini-Kiln.

Zoom: The Paragon SC-2.

Zoom: The Paragon Fusion 6.

The UltraLite Kiln, the Kitiki Mini-Kiln, and the Paragon SC Series kilns are in the Cherry Heaven on-line shop. For other kilns, transfer to Electric Kilns or Paragon Kilns, using the Electric Kilns or Paragon Kilns links above the menu bar.

The on-line shops include kiln furniture, kiln paper, timers, pyrometers, fire extinguishers, ceramic blocks, ceramic cloths, heat-resistant gloves, glare-resistant glasses, and other tools and accessories.