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Throwing and Firing Flatware: From Clay to Finished Plates

Florian Gadsby via YouTube

Overview

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A demonstration of making flat ceramic plates, from throwing and trimming through glazing and reduction firing. It also shows the maker’s respiratory mask and goggles for glazing.

Syllabus

- Introduction & throwing the clay bat
- Throwing the plate
- How I wire these plates off the bats
- Trimming the plates
- Packing and firing the electric kiln to 1000ºC
- Waxing the plates
- Glazing the plates
- The mask I use for glazing
- Tidying up the glazed plate
- Packing my Rohde KG-340 gas kiln
- Reduction firing to 1290ºC
- Unpacking the gas kiln
- The finished objects

Taught by

Florian Gadsby

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