Making an Ironclad Vase — From Start to Finish — ASMR Edition

Here's this week's ASMR version of my latest video, which has been a long time in the making... You may remember this vase being thrown and trimmed with clay wedged full of iron spangles. Well, this is the conclusion, finally, more than a year later, as this wheel thrown stoneware vase has now been reduction fired THREE times with two additional coats of yellow iron ochre. Phew — thanks for watching and let me know what you think of the final, almost metal-looking, vase.

If you'd prefer to watch the fully narrated edition, that explains each step, both practically, and what my thoughts were, then you can watch that here:    • A Vase's Journey — Iron, Refires & Fa...  

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⏱ • Timecodes:
0:00 - Introduction
0:16 - Mixing Iron Oxide Spangles into stoneware
2:48 - Throwing the vase
8:23 - Trimming the vase
13:40 - Packing the electric kiln for a bisque firing to 1000ºC
14:54 - Waxing the vase
16:05 - Glazing the vase
21:06 - Packing and reduction firing my Rohde gas kiln to 1290ºC
23:57 - The (finished) vase
24:20 - Coating the vase in Iron Oxide Yellow Ochre
26:48 - Firing the vase a second time
27:25 - Coating the vase in Iron Oxide Yellow Ochre AGAIN
28:22 - Packing and firing the gas kiln AGAIN
29:15 - THE ACTUAL FINISHED VASE

*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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