Making Handmade Vases — THE ENTIRE POTTERY PROCESS

This video shows the creation of a new, angular bud vase form. It goes from the beginning, to the end, from a lump of high-iron stoneware clay that's transformed on a pottery wheel into a flower vase, (of some, peculiar kind). I then demonstrate the trimming, bisque firing, waxing, glazing and reduction firing to 1290ºC — the lot! I hope you enjoy this in-depth tutorial and please let me know what you thought in the comments!

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⏱ • Timecodes:
0:00 - Introduction
0:15 - Preparing and wedging stoneware clay
1:17 - Throwing the angular vases
8:58 - Trimming the angular vases
15:55 - Packing the electric kiln for a bisque firing to 1000ºC
17:12 - Unpacking the bisque firing
17:45 - Waxing the feet
18:47 - Glazing the vases
22:23 - Tidying up the glazed surfaces
25:07 - Packing the gas kiln
27:26 - Reduction firing to 1290ºC
30:15 - Unpacking the gas kiln
31:17 - Sanding the base of the vases
31:49 - THE FINISHED TRIO

*It's worth noting! That you won't get the same results as I do if you're firing in oxidation. The reduction firing really helps with this process.

*I throw using both a Rohde HMT 500 & 600 potter's wheel and fire using Rohde kilns too, the electric is a TE-200 and the gas kiln is a KG-340.
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