I know many of you have been waiting for this video... here's the conclusion to the plates I designed and made recently, shown from beginning to end, from lumps of soft stoneware clay to the finished, reduction fired vessels. It's a long one but it goes over each step in tremendous detail, including how they're thrown, trimmed, waxed, glazed, packed inside the kiln, fired and finally polished so they don't have scratchy, grog-specked bases—phew.
Thanks so much for watching and do let me know which is your favourite.
For similar shapes of pots, watch the below:
⚙️ Stepped Sculptural Vessel: https://youtu.be/IQRPeOlwVKg
☕️ Mugs with Stepped Bases: https://youtu.be/JXfI9Czu2PI
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🏺 • You may also be interested in my 'A Beginner's Guide' series, which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2WJhtTF0eGhQwf8g2LHcom_KrvJpH_JT
Timecodes:
0:00 - Introduction
0:20 - Preparing VERY soft clay to throw with
1:22 - My collection of side plates
4:11 - Why I use bats & how to attach them to the wheel
4:55 - Throwing the plates
14:50 - Chatting about how to dry these overnight properly
15:15 - How to wire the plates off the bats
17:53 - Trimming the plates
30:24 - Packing the electric kiln for a biscuit firing to 1000ºC
31:59 - Waxing the bases of the plates
33:26 - Glazing the plates
35:52 - Cleaning up the glazed surfaces
39:27 - Packing the gas kiln
40:20 - Reduction firing the kiln to 1290ºC
42:34 - Unpacking the plates
43:38 - Sanding the bases of the plates
44:10 - The finished side-plates!
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