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Experimenting with Metal Scraps in Pottery Kiln Firing

Florian Gadsby via YouTube

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This pottery demonstration follows two test bowls made with steel hammer scale and bronze filings mixed into the clay, from throwing and glazing through bisque and reduction firing. It also shows the finished bowls after a second firing.

Syllabus

- Introduction and unboxing
- Mixing the metals, bronze and steel hammer scale into my clay
- Throwing two test bowls
- Trimming the bowls
- The trays I'll be firing these in, safety nets
- Loading the electric kiln for a bisque firing to 1000ºC
- Waxing the bowl's feet
- Glazing the bowls
- Tidying up the glazed surface
- Preparing the bowls for reduction firing
- Reduction firing my Rohde KG-340 to 1290ºC
- Unloading the gas kiln
- The fired bowls...
- Firing them a second time!
- The final, finished bowls.
- Polishing their feet
- Clean up

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Florian Gadsby

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