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Good day,
I am Ronald Morris, I saw your profile and I decided to contact you immediately. Can you get back to me on my email (ronmorri01@gmail.com) for full details.
Regards.
I'm not sure that giving you a firing schedule that I use would necessarily work in your kiln. Each one is different, as you are experiencing!
I fire fast, 450 F per hour up to 2000 F, then 250F per hour to 2274- crash cool (in my kiln, that's 250F per hour) down to 1650F, hold for 10 minutes if I'm not firing Iron red, hold for 60 minutes if I am firing red, cool 150F per hour to 1500, off.
I have never really had pinholing/pitting problems with my glazes. I have heard that bisque firing slowly can help, and maybe experiment with a temp hold during the glaze firing might help smooth things out...
Have you duplicated the firing schedule that the co-op uses? Try posting the glaze formula, and your firing schedule, some pics, as a blog post or in the discussion forum. Some of the glaze gurus around here might also be able to identify what the problem is.
Good Luck!
Welcome! Let me know if I can help you out.