The Most Popular Pots I Make - Creating Miniature Jars from Start to Finish

This course demonstrates the process of making miniature jars with fitted lids, from preparing and throwing the clay to glazing and reduction firing. It also shows the repeated work involved in producing several vessels.

Syllabus

- Introduction
- Weighing and wedging the clay
- Throwing the bodies of the jars
- Throwing the lids for the jars
- Trimming the parts to fit together once leather hard
- Bisque firing the jars to 1000ºC
- Waxing the jars
- Glazing the jars
- Cleaning up the glazed surfaces
- Wadding the lids
- Packing and reduction firing my Rohde KG-340 gas kiln
- Cracking off the waddings and cleaning the lids
- The finished vessels...