How to Throw, Glaze and Fire a Pottery Inkwell - From Beginning to End

This course demonstrates making a pottery inkwell from 200 grams of clay through wheel throwing, trimming, bisque firing, glazing, and gas-kiln reduction firing. It covers wall thickness, clay distribution, chuck use, glaze cleanup, and finishing the piece with a cork and dip pen.

Syllabus

- Introduction
- Throwing inkwell
- Illustration about wall thickness, clay distribution
- Trimming inkwells using a chuck
- Discussing the chuck
- Cross section of inkwell
- Loading the electric kiln for a bisque firing to 1000ºc
- Waxing the base
- Glazing the inkwells
- Cleaning up the glaze
- Loading and firing the gas kiln in reduction to 1290ºc, cone 10
- Before and after example
- Finished piece with cork and ink dip pen