121. How to Make Pottery for Pitfire

Making Pitfire Pottery is great. It is a lot of fun and the results can look amazing.

Many people have asked me how to do pitfire pottery. The first step is the throw the right pots - pottery that is suitable for the brutal pitfire.

In this video I will take you through the first and important steps to get started on pitfire pottery: What clay to use, how to throw your pots and how to prepare them for the pitfire.

INDEX:
00:00 How to Pitfire Pottery
00:27 What is the best clay for pitfire?
02:43 What is the best stoneware to use for pitfire?
03:33 What about the color of the clay for pitfire?
04:30 Adding slip and terra sigillata
05:03 Can you use dark stoneware for pitfire?
08:03 My clay recommendation for pitfire
08:55 The best shapes for pitfire
11:04 Wheel Throwing the first vase for pitfire
13:45 Wet trimming the vase
15:40 Making the second vase for pitfire
16:49 Do not work when you are too tired!
17:29 Wheel throwing the third vase for pitfire
21:57 Wheel throwing in dark, high grog stoneware for pitfire
23:51 Trimming the first pot
24:24 Preparing the pot for adding porcelain slip
25:18 Adding the porcelain slip to the first pot
27:06 Trimming the second vase
28:58 Trimming the third pot - and preparing it for porcelain slip
30:41 Aplying the porcelain slip to the stoneware vase
32:12 Preparing the dark clay pot for adding porcelain slip
33:41 Adding porcelain slip to the dark stoneware clay
35:15 Preparing the first pot for applying terra sigillata
37:56 Adding terra sigillata to the first vase
40:44 Burnish the vase with a pair of gloves
53:53 Adding tera sigillata to the vase with no porcelain slip
46:52 Do you have to bisque fire your pots before pitfire?
49:36 Unloading the bisque fired kiln
50:57 First look at the results
51:06 Evaluating the results of the pots for pitfire

The terra sigillata recipe use:

1,120 gram Ball Clay
316 gram EPK
7.5 gram Sodium Silicate
3.3 liter water


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