Hi Mikkel. Indeed 'ears opening'! Buying commercial glazes can safe a lot of the work and time. With regards the wiring, I wired for the need to trim foot, but I'm thinking if I can make a aluminum flat sheet that can glide cross the base without taking off clay. As for the mixing of clay, I suppose porcelain and stoneware clay fired at a high temperature? Really fascinated to see your moon shape vase as a successful example. If you have plan to throw red/black s/w clay with porcelain, would love to watch that! :-) Lastly, thank you for such interesting lesson.
Thanks a lot :-) Yes, the stoneware/porcelain mix was fired to high temp. Lately I have been doing some combination of white and colored porcelain - which also have some challenges, as the clay change a lot when coloring it. You can see some examples on my Instagram: instagram.com/mikkeldemib/
Tack så mycket för denna video! Jag gillar att du vågar prova sådant som alla säger att det inte går och jag är tacksam för att du delar med sig av dina erfarenheter.
I read somewhere that you cannot glaze a pot in a pitfire. Its a myth. I just glazed the inside of a small, bisque fired, stoneware bottle with a transparent glaze that matures at 980-1,020ºC. Its now a waterproof, pitfired bottle that I can use to display a single rose. Awesome.
I solved the chuck problem stopping carving foot rings. What a waste of time, and 'if' a customer ever complains; well I guess they'll find plenty of potters who do. :-) I trim pots on the batt and then let them dry enough to pop off on their own. Finish work is scrubby or sand paper.
I solved the problem of the footrings for tall vases with thin neck,by slipcasting the wase with the foot ring.The footring its made out of the mold,but there is a catch. If one half of the piece dryes faster then it will bend the pot. Especially with the high shrinking clay i use.
Have you ever made your own clay from the ground? And try and fire it? In different ways? I heard that because of the impurities in the earthen clay will make it melt in a kiln. So perhaps with sacrificing a little tray to ketch the glass from a test pice.
No, I never made my own clay and I don't expect to do so :-) Also, that clay would most often be an eathenware type of clay that require a different fire schedule than what I use
