How a Teapot is Made - ASMR Edition

This ambient-sound demonstration follows the complete making of a ceramic teapot, including wheel throwing, component assembly, glazing, bisque firing, cone-ten gas firing, and final finishing.

Syllabus

- Introduction
- Wedging clay for teapot bodies
- Throwing teapot body
- Preparing clay for lids
- Reversing measured callipers
- Throwing lid
- Throwing spout
- Unwrapping components from drying overnight
- Trimming the teapot body and lid
- Demonstrating how the lid's hole functions
- Attaching the spout to the teapot body
- Pulling and attaching the handle
- Carving the handle and quality control
- Packing the electric kiln for a bisque firing to 1000ºc
- Unpacking the electric kiln
- Waxing the teapot
- Mixing up glaze
- Glazing the teapot
- Cleaning up the glazed lid and body
- Preparing the waddings for the lid
- Packing the gas kiln
- Firing the gas kiln to 1290ºc, cone ten
- Unpacking the gas kiln
- Sanding the base of the teapot
- Removing the waddings
- Using valve grinding paste to smooth the join
- Making a cup of of tea, earl grey
- The finished teapot