Revisiting Porcelain - Throwing and Trimming Jars

This course demonstrates wedging and weighing porcelain, throwing jar bodies and lids, and trimming the forms. It also shows using a torch to inspect translucent porcelain thickness and stamping a maker’s mark.

Syllabus

- Introduction
- Wedging and weighing out clay
- Throwing the bodies of the jars
- Throwing the lids
- Makeshift drying setup when the studios full
- Showing the sharp trimming tools made by Jaejun Lee
- Trimming the underside of the lid
- Trimming the body
- Using a torch to see the thickness of the translucent porcelain
- Trimming the tops of the lids
- Trimming the base of the jar and stamping in my maker's mark.
- Bone dry porcelain jars