Creating and Firing Handmade Ceramic Mugs - From Throwing to Glazing

This video follows the making of individual mugs from wheel throwing and handle shaping through glazing and reduction firing to 1290ºC. It includes practical notes on throwing on batts, trimming with a chuck, and firing in reduction.

Syllabus

At the end of this video there's a numbered montage of all the mugs... comment with the number of your favourite piece! - if you want to skip to that part.
- Introduction — Talking YSP and my book
- Throwing mugs
- Why I'm throwing on batts, and not wiring them off
- 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!