Products
A Multitude of Additional Products!

Hopefully, you will come to know and count on us for any size refractory bill of material in addition to kiln shelves. As one of the Midwest's most fully stocked refractory warehouses, we are here to help you select correctly and then supply your selections.


Please visit the Smith-Sharpe Fire Brick Supply Website when planning and building your next kiln or when making repairs to an existing kiln.

We are rooted by many years of refractory supply experience - "Smith-Sharpe" (Founded in 1924) and "Fire Brick Supply" (Founded in 1937). Now Kilnshelf.com is dedicated to supplying the needs of ceramic teaching programs, professional clay artists, production potteries and all those dedicated to the ceramic arts. Count on us for supply and advice.

Smith-Sharpe Fire Brick Supply (SSFBS), the parent company of Kilnshelf.com, is proud of their distribution partnership with the following partial list of refractory manufacturers:

Unifrax or the old Carborundum "Fiberfrax" refractory ceramic fiber (RCF) products.

Harbison-Walker refractory materials, having been a long time "AP Green" distributor until AP Green, Harbison-Walker and North American refractory manufacturers combined s ANH Refractories keeping many of the refractory brands you have come to trust and recognize. All their best products are here for your selection including firebrick, castables, mortars and AP Green Fireclay.

Saint-Gobain Ceramics includes silicon carbide kiln shelves, kiln furniture systems and other unique silicon carbide and alumina plates and shapes manufactured formerly as Carborundum and Norton brands.

What's New

View the "Lighten up" article from Pottery Production Practices, a supplement of Ceramic Industry Magazine, co-authored by Marshall Browne and Mike Arbini. You can download a PDF version of the article here. This article is loaded with valuable information about choosing and using Advancer® kiln shelves.

Check out the "Saving Space" article from Ceramic Industry's Pottery Production Practices magazine to see how Advavcer kiln shelves are making money for two ceramic artists in their production studios.You can downlaod a PDF version of the article here.