Nowhere to Hide - The Difficulties Behind Minimal Pottery

Nowhere to Hide - The Difficulties Behind Minimal Pottery

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11:23 - Why it's important to dry these vases out slowly...

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11:23 - Why it's important to dry these vases out slowly...

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Nowhere to Hide - The Difficulties Behind Minimal Pottery

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  1. 1 0:00 - Introduction & notes on ideal interior shapes
  2. 2 2:23 - Clay preparation
  3. 3 3:23 - Centring the clay
  4. 4 4:27 - The importance of the initial, opened base
  5. 5 6:31 - How to fix a 'rippling' base
  6. 6 8:33 - Why I leave the rims thick
  7. 7 8:53 - Using throwing sticks to fix the interior form
  8. 8 11:23 - Why it's important to dry these vases out slowly...
  9. 9 13:44 - How I dry these overnight
  10. 10 14:04 - Trimming the vases
  11. 11 15:04 - Trimming & bevelling the rim
  12. 12 16:16 - Trimming the base of the vase
  13. 13 18:65 - A ramble about how variance in ceramics is a good thing!
  14. 14 21:42 - Packing the electric kiln for a biscuit firing to 1000ºC
  15. 15 22:53 - Waxing the foot of the vase
  16. 16 23:39 - Glazing the vases
  17. 17 26:15 - Cleaning up the glazed surfaces
  18. 18 28:32 - Packing the kiln & reduction firing the pots to cone ten, 1290ºC
  19. 19 29:46 - Unpacking the kiln & the finished pieces

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