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Pottery Mug Making Process - From Throwing to Firing

Florian Gadsby via YouTube

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A demonstration follows individual mugs from wheel throwing and handle-making through glazing and reduction firing. It also shows bisque firing, kiln packing, and finishing the fired mugs.

Syllabus

- Preparing clay
- Throwing mugs
- Wiring off tip
- Trimming the mugs using a chuck
- Pulling the handles for the mugs
- Carving the handles once they're leather hard
- Quality control
- Unpacking the bisque firing, to 1000ºC
- Waxing the bases of the mugs
- Glazing the mugs
- Cleaning up the glazed mugs
- Packing the gas kiln
- Reduction firing the gas kiln to 1290ºC
- Unpacking the kiln
- Polishing the bases of the cups
- THE MUG MONTAGE let me know which ones you like most!

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Florian Gadsby

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