How to Create A Two Part Pottery Vase — A Journey of Learning

My video this week goes over the creation of these handmade, two-part vases. It was a real learning journey for me, as you'll see by all the failures this film includes. This isn't a good example of how to make pots, rather it shows my struggles of making pots and testing out ideas, which, hopefully, will be useful and insightful itself.

I use a Rohde TE-200 electric kiln and a Rohde KG-340 gas kiln. If you'd like to watch a more in-depth film about reduction firing you can find it here:    • Loading and Reduction Firing a Kiln F...  

Phil Poburka makes a majority of the trimming tools I use for stoneware.
Phil Bison tools: http://bisonstudios.com

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Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
0:34 - Wedging clay
1:04 - Throwing the body of the vase
7:24 - Throwing the upper walls of the vase
12:43 - Scoring and slipping the parts together
14:44 - Incising out the excess to form the rim
17:38 - Melding the two parts together
18:22 - Drying the vases out slowly to leather hard
19:24 - Trimming the vases
24:31 - Loading the electric kiln for a bisque firing, (1000ºc)
25:21 - Unpacking the now bisque fired pots
25:50 - Waxing the bases of the vases
26:47 - Glazing the vases
32:37 - Cleaning over the glazed surfaces
37:28 - Cleaning the bases of the vases
39:19 - Painting bat wash onto a silicon carbide kiln shelf
39:48 - Packing the gas kiln for a reduction firing, (1290º)
42:02 - Ciro, the mascot
42:12 - Firing the gas kiln
44:17 - Unpacking the gas kiln a few days later
45:51 - Unloading the 'fallen' pot
45:59 - A close up of the crumpled vessel
46:23 - Smashing the failed pot
47:04 - Sanding the base of the pot
47:51 - The finished vase
48:26 - Tidying up

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