Making Ramen Bowls - Wheel Throwing and Glazing Process

A start-to-finish demonstration of making stoneware ramen bowls, from preparing clay and wheel throwing through glazing, reduction firing, and finishing. It includes a Tenmoku glaze recipe.

Syllabus

- Introduction
- Preparing clay to throw with
- Throwing the bowls
- Wiring the bowls off the MDF bats
- Trimming the bowls
- Before & after — thrown verses trimmed
- Packing the electric kiln for a bisque firing to 1000ºC
- Unpacking the electric kiln
- Waxing the bowl's feet
- HOW I MIX the Tenmoku glaze, recipe included
- Glazing the bowls
- Cleaning up the glazed bowls prior to firing
- Packing the gas kiln
- Reduction firing the gas kiln to 1290ºC
- Opening the kiln and seeing the bowls
- Sanding the base of the bowls
- Close up images of the Tenmoku glaze
- Clean up