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Creating Large Stepped Bowls and Testing a New Tungsten Trimming Tool

Florian Gadsby via YouTube

Overview

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Watch a candid pottery demonstration video showcasing the challenges of creating large stepped bowls and featuring the unveiling of a custom-made tungsten trimming tool. Follow along as an experienced potter encounters and overcomes difficulties while working with a 5kg clay mass, demonstrating various techniques from centering to fixing wall undulations. Learn valuable insights about the limitations of tungsten tools, observe the meticulous process of foot refinement, and discover how careful craftsmanship can salvage seemingly problematic pieces. The detailed demonstration includes step-by-step explanations of the bowl-making process, from initial failures to the successful completion of a refined ceramic piece.

Syllabus

- Introduction
- Centring the larger lump of clay, 5 kg
- The different way of opening up the clay for a bowl
- Fail number one
- Fail number two
- Trying to fix the undulation in the wall
- Unboxing the trimming tool made by Devon
- Refining the bowl's interior shape
- WHY tungsten tools aren't always best
- Finishing the tall foot
- The finished bowl, for now
- Weighing the bowl

Taught by

Florian Gadsby

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