145. Lighter Wheel Thrown Stoneware Dinner Plates

How much clay to use for a dinner plate?

I have been working a lot time to design and create my own pottery dinner plates. I think I have right design in place, I love the clay, the shape, texture and glazes on the plates.

But one last thing I had to deal with is the final weight of the plates.

I make my dinner plates in stoneware. They are all hand made - wheel thrown on the potter's wheel. So they will never be super light. But still, I don't want them to feel heavy. And some of my friends and buys did complain a little big about the weight of my first series of plates. So I have been testing how to make them lighter.

In this video I show you the final results of my plates and how they now company to the weight of commercial, mass produced dinner plates.

INDEX:
00:00 Introduction to ceramics plate design
00:59 How much should a plate weight?
01:36 My wheel thrown dinner plate design
02:00 The wrong glaze for dinner plates
03:03 (Some think) My plates was too heavy
03:32 How much did my first plates weight?
04:19 How much plate to use for a ceramic dinner plate?
04:44 This is how I wheel throw my dinner plates
05:50 Wheel throwing lighter plates
06:02 How much do my new plates weight?
07:24 How much clay should YOU use for ceramics plates?
07:55 The (long) journey of designing pottery


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