How to Make Pottery Bowls — From Start to Finish

In this week's video I'm making a deep bowl from beginning to end. I'll begin with lumps of soft clay and I'll take you right through to the end, through glazing, firing and the final bit of sanding the base undergoes. Thanks so much for watching as always and if you have any further comments or questions please don't hesitate to ask.

If you'd like to catch up on my latest series about throwing pots you can find the third part here:    • How to Pull Up The Walls of a Pot — A...  

Timecodes:
0:00 - Introduction
0:21 - Preparing the weighed out clay, (1 lb, 453 grams)
1:21 - Throwing the bowl
4:28 - Trimming the bowl
8:30 - Comparing the forms of the bowls
9:00 - Packing the electric kiln for a bisque firing to 1000ºc
10:19 - Unpacking the electric kiln
11:09 - Preparing the wax
12:10 - Waxing the bowls
13:09 - Glazing the bowls
14:05 - Cleaning the glazed bowls prior to packing them into the gas kiln
15:50 - Packing the Rohde KG-340 gas kiln
18:24 - Firing the gas kiln
20:28 - An example of these glazes if they oxidise
22:17 - Unpacking the gas kiln
23:43 - Sanding the bowls bases
24:07 - Examples of fired bowls
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