Rookie Mistakes...

Prepare to see two rather spectacular mishaps... This week, I'm scaling up the red stoneware pots I've been making. I'll be throwing and trimming a 2.5 kg vase made from a 50/50 mix of PS 690, (the coarse red stoneware), and ES80, (the smoother high-iron clay), together with a sprinkling of bronze filings to add a bit more life, albeit subtle. I cover all the steps that go into throwing larger amounts of clay like this, together with the process of refining the vessel once it has turned leather hard. Thereafter we continue the journey... the pot is waxed, badly, glazed, badly and finally reduction fired and the final object unpacked from my gas kiln.

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Timecodes:
0:00 - Introduction
0:42 - How I protect an injured finger when throwing
1:35 - Throwing the 2.5 kg vase
8:50 - Refining the vases shape
10:15 - Collecting scraps
11:48 - BETTER finger protection
12:01 - Fixing a wavering rim
13:25 - Trimming the angular vase
18:52 - Weighing the vessel
19:14 - Packing and unpacking a bisque firing to 1000ºC
19:48 - Waxing the pot, badly
21:12 - Glazing the pot, badly
23:25 - Cleaning up the glazed surface & the base
24:52 - Packing the gas kiln and reduction firing it to 1290ºC (cone ten)
26:33 - Unpacking the kiln
27:00 - Sanding the pots base
27:13 - The finished vase...

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