This video has been a long time in the making... You may remember this vase being thrown and trimmed with clay wedged full of iron spangles. Well, this is the conclusion, finally, more than a year later, as this wheel thrown stoneware vase has now been reduction fired THREE times with two additional coats of yellow iron ochre. Phew — thanks for watching and let me know what you think of the final, almost metal-looking, vase.
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⏱ • Timecodes:
0:00 - Introduction
0:16 - Mixing Iron Oxide Spangles into stoneware
1:47 - Throwing the vase
7:23 - Trimming the vase
11:40 - Packing the electric kiln for a bisque firing to 1000ºC
12:52 - Waxing the vase
13:24 - Glazing the vase
17:22 - Packing and reduction firing my Rohde gas kiln to 1290ºC
18:48 - Talking about pyrometric cones and digital pyrometers
20:18 - The (finished) vase
20:42 - Coating the vase in Iron Oxide Yellow Ochre
22:42 - Firing the vase a second time
23:25 - Coating the vase in Iron Oxide Yellow Ochre AGAIN
23:55 - Packing and firing the gas kiln AGAIN
24:44 - THE ACTUAL FINISHED VASE
*It's worth noting! That you won't get the same results as I do if you're firing in oxidation. The reduction firing really helps with this process.
*I throw using both a Rohde HMT 500 & 600 potter's wheel and fire using Rohde kilns too, the electric is a TE-200 and the gas kiln is a KG-340.
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