How to Make Pottery Bowls - From Start to Finish

This course demonstrates making a deep pottery bowl from weighed clay through wheel throwing, trimming, glazing, bisque and gas firing, and sanding the finished base.

Syllabus

- Introduction
- Preparing the weighed out clay, 1 lb, 453 grams
- Throwing the bowl
- Trimming the bowl
- Comparing the forms of the bowls
- Packing the electric kiln for a bisque firing to 1000ºc
- Unpacking the electric kiln
- Preparing the wax
- Waxing the bowls
- Glazing the bowls
- Cleaning the glazed bowls prior to packing them into the gas kiln
- Packing the Rohde KG-340 gas kiln
- Firing the gas kiln
- An example of these glazes if they oxidise
- Unpacking the gas kiln
- Sanding the bowls bases
- Examples of fired bowls