Exploring New Ways to Craft Mug Footwells

This week's video is another conclusion to a film posted a few months ago. In it, I discuss and demonstrate different ways of trimming the bases of mugs in order to find something new, be it a more decorative finish or something slightly more sculptural to discover on the underside of a cup. I'll take you through the entire process, from throwing them with a slightly thicker base, to trimming them, waxing them, glazing the pots and tidying up the tong marks, to finally reduction firing the vessels in my gas kiln and then assessing what emerges after being fired to cone ten, (1290ºC).

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Timecodes:
0:00 - Introduction
0:33 - Preparing the clay for the cups
2:40 - Throwing the 320-350 gram cups
5:00 - Examples of my current style of base
5:53 - Trimming the cups and their NEW bases
13:35 - Pulling & attaching the handles for these mugs
17:45 - The first line-up of mugs, (let me know which numbers you like)
20:02 - Carving the handles to make them thinner/more refined
22:03 - Packing/unpacking a bisque firing in my electric kiln
22:40 - Waxing the mugs bases
23:13 - Glazing the mugs
25:00 - Cleaning up the mugs surfaces
26:30 - Packing and firing my gas kiln in reduction, 1290ºC
30:13 - The finished mugs, with ANOTHER line-up, let me know which you like best!

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