How I recycle my clay with Simon Leach 

I always enjoy your posts. Thank you, Simon.

Thanks but shouldn’t you wear a mask with all the clay dust swirling around?

Thankyou! Helps for me to see not just read.

Enjoy your vids. I recently found you from some old vids you did where you converted an old electric kiln to gas. I'm doing the same. I found someone getting rid of a bunch of pottery stuff. Good score for a newbie like me.

Looking forward to a new shirt!

Great to recycle clay!!! And, I love my Leach wheel!! I stopped using my electric wheel, now it’s kick wheel all the way!! Great way to control speed, much more enjoyable making pots and such!!!

You are making sense. Clay is made of different size particles. Slip is the finest of the particles

Fascinating.

Nice job Simon. I have always did my clay the same way, but I use a power mixer on you drill to speed up the process. I know you talker about doing a work shop in Texas before to long. I hope you will take some videos when you are there. eddie.

Great video

Simon, I suggest your videos to all my students. Great video! love the T shirt .

Love this - thank you for showing all of the little things you do -

Love your videos. I used this method to recycle clay as a beginning potter. Purchased a Peter Pugger mixing/pug mill to make my own throwing clay from dry material. I now directly use what would have been recycled to directly make fresh throwing clay. Best investment in the studio given shipping costs of bag clay because I am not shipping wet clay.

Beautiful ❤.

Thanks Simon

Я восхищаюсь Вами!!! Ваши работы - прекрасны!!!!

✨Clay IS the way💫 back on The Wheel today… A few GP bowls for a fundraiser … Yee HAW! Thanks Simon!

Nice video Simon.

I let my throwing water settle, pour off the water to reuse again and reclaim all the settled clay... Often times I find my reclaimed clay is too soft because I don't typically have much dry groggy stuff to add back in but I don't think that can be helped much other than to mix in some fresh clay when I wedge it. Keeping a smaller reclaim bucket forces me to do smaller batches more often, making it less of whole ordeal. I am still working on it. I just hate waste.

That's cool.......I'd think a mask would be important to cut down on the silica exposure, gotta keep this stud around as long as we can.

Could you give the next vidéo which complète this one?

If I lived in the US I’d buy you a new watering can 😀

Simon, I made a plaster bat in a large plastic bin using potters plaster but when I tried to dry out the clay bits of the plaster are getting into the clay. I left the plaster to dry for quite a while. Did I use the wrong ratio of water to plaster? Thanks

How do you dry it out after slaking it down?

It helps grow mycillium. And that makes the clay plastic.