121. Using Sodium Silicate and a Cheese Cutter to Create a Textured Vase with Hsin-Chuen Lin 

I love this pot. I really, really love it, more than anything else you've done, and as far as I'm concerned, you're the best on RU-vid.

That's a beautiful piece and a great demonstration. I kept thinking it would make a great lamp! So wonderful to meet you at the Clay and Glass Festival in Palo Alto in July. Still want that brown and black oilspot bowl.... Susan

Fine work Mr. Lin keep it up!

Love the sound of your wheel. Thank you for your generosity in sharing your talent. Fantastic.

Great work, thank you😇💞

I love making textured vessels using a curly wire, but I wish I had one in a cheese slicer like you do. I found your torn rim interesting before you decided to smooth it out - so different! I haven't used sodium silicate in a while so I hope mine is still usable. Thanks for sharing.

Excellent tutorial! I would love to see the finished glaze at the end.

You say another simple example? No it is a fabulous example! Well done!

Intense!! great video

great work. beautiful

Wonderful Demo, I went to the studio to try it right after watching since I have sodium silicate in my shed. I had my pot all pulled and altered with a rib (might have been my mistake, then silicate and dryed... I turned the wheel on too fast and the hole vase FLEW apart. It was funny. Vase 2 I think I dryed too much plus the verticle alterations combined to make the vase split. I was using red stoneware. Later this week I will try it without the altereation, in porcelain.

Very nice, I would love to see the finished result after firing!

you are a genius!

Beautiful.

Love it! How is it glazed? I didn't see the finished product. Any suggestions on where to buy the sodium silicate?

Perfect potter, greetings from Italy. I spend a lot of time looking at your videos, grazie Maestro ! Please tell me how to glaze this kind of vases without covering the texture.

it is applied to the surface of a piece being thrown. When it is dried, it forms a hard shell that would "crack" open when you stretch the surface. You can also use slip and then dry the surface although you may not get quite as dramatic effect as using sodium silicate. Some people have also suggested using simple syrup on the surface and dried. Essentially, based on that suggestion, any thing that would form a "shell" on the surface would work to form the crackle.

Can you comment on how you glazed this to get the black and white effect. It is inspiring to watch you work. Thank you.

thank you!!

How do you cut and remove it off the wheel without ruining the texture??? Also with a spontaneous shape, do you trim on the wheel or create a foot with hand tools? Thanks-fun video

is sodium silicate food safe? also LOVE your work you sir are a pottery genius, using a cheesecutter and fishing line, BRILLIANT! I may have to do that one day.

If I apply the sodium silicate at leather hard stage will it not be wet enough? I would hand build with coils then apply?

hola soy chilena, luego con qué esmaltas la pieza?.. then what kind of glazes you use

Does the sodium silicate have any part in the makeup of the finished piece or does it just sort-of fire out?

老師您好，請問您使用的起士刀台灣買得到嗎？找了很久都沒有像您那種有白色滾輪的那種，感謝老師分享。

I generally dislike pots done in this manner. This one is wonderful.

would you please tell how much clay you use on your videos, please, like 5 lbs ect...You are AWSOME!!!! Thanks

hi - what does the sodium silicate do?

gotta ask, is that porcelain clay? looks so soft

I believe it dries the surface to create the crackled surface texture because it dries the surface clay faster without drying out the rest of the clay body.

maestro

hola soy español y aprendiz de ceramista,veo todos tus videos Hsinchuen Lin y son admirables, mi pregunta es que pasta o liquido le pone con brocha a esta pieza....gracias y un saludo

I MADE IT WHILE I WAS WATCHING I MADE IT YAYAYYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG I GOTTA GO TELLLLL EVERYBODYYY!!!!!!! THANK YOU IMA PUT A BILLON OF LIKES THANK YOUU

hello. lovely SLOW DEMO again :) I tend to 'stretch' too quickly with only the inside hand.. Hsin Chuen Lin, may I ask "how thick are your walls on this piece BEFOR you start to stretch the cylinder ? thankyou again

maestro cosa avrebbe applicato sul vaso dopo decoro e finitura

@Hsinchen Lin Whenever I use Sodium Silicate I'm getting very deep horizontal cracks during the stretching. Any idea how to prevernt that?

Sympa l'effet de la texture 👍.... mais bof la finition du col ... pour moi

Damn ................ that wheel is almost as loud as mine !!

I love your demo's, but hate the sound of your potters wheel...

Food safety should not be a concern 1. because it gets burned out during the bisque firing and 2. it's only used on the outside of pots during throwing.

Hate the Sound of your potters Wheel and hate your Price