There's No Way Glazing This Embarrassing Should Have Worked 

Thanks so much! Pleased you think so too, I really thought they'd fire terribly so it was a huge relief to open the kiln to some successful pots.

GOOD LUCK! Glazing can be tricky, my advice to my students when I taught evening classes for three years was to be conservative at the start. Glazing, like throwing or trimming is a skill, so don't go too wild, don't glaze too thickly or layer TOO much, and give the foot a good tidy thereafter. Have fun!

How did it go!!

@STAIND12300 It went okay. I am getting better with the tongs to dip and realized I need to wait longer to varnish after my 2nd coat of glaze. Learning patience 😀

@autumnclack6073 that's great! I hope you continue to fall in love with it:)

There's actually a bowl in my shop update tonight, (the one that goes live in 25 minutes), that has a PERFECT example of what it looks like with varying levels of thickness, will DM you a picture. But you're right, video of that in combination with why I shave thicknesses down is a much better example of explaining what I'm talking about in this video.

4 seconds by my count in NYC. Was there as site went live, trigger finger hovering, and I didn't make it. Florian's pots are just so limited numbers-wise--he is only one guy doing it ALL himself. Good luck to you next time. Meanwhile, we have all those lovely videos!! Thnx, Florian!

Thanks so much! :)

Thanks!

welp failed again here’s hoping for next time

I do! Before I start cleaning these up I wipe clean the table and let it dry, then I'll scrape all the dust into my basins of recycled glaze, which is eventually sieved back into my larger buckets of glaze.

Please tell me, do you have a video about the wax that you cover the bottom of the pots with? Do you buy it or make it yourself? We sometimes use beeswax to open pores. I'm just getting started with glazes and engobes. I'm from Ukraine

Two on the corners on the same side, on in the middle of the other, so it’s like a tripod. Very stable!

@@floriangadsby ah, it looked like they were all on the corners

It's made by DiamondCore Tools, this was specifically the 200 grit from this set: diamondcoretools.com/collections/diamond-sanding-pads/products/fdp

@@floriangadsby thank you so much. All my best to you.

There is! Spray guns, which you need a booth for to catch the fine glaze particles. It would work, but spraying a layer as thick as I need all the way around this would take a LONG time, but I definitely want one...

All of it is recycled! I clean at the table beforehand, let it dry, then I just scrape off the excess into my glaze basin that's eventually sieved back into my larger bucket of glaze.

@@floriangadsby amazing! Thanks for the reply. Amazing work. I’d love to buy one of your teapots, but shipping to Australia is a long way to go haha. Cheers.

Sometimes I can turn pots that were 'seconds' into 'firsts'. I coat them with yellow ochre iron oxide and refire them in spots that typically don't get hot enough anyway. Some of these end up being the most interesting pots that are fired in my kiln and it isn't too uncommon a practice. I spoke to a potter the other day who knows someone who fires pots up to 11/12 times!

@@floriangadsby wow!! That's so cool! Thank you for explaining!

Excited for the shop opening, let's see if I better luck this time. I have set a timer even :D

I wish I could - RU-vid used to let users submit translations to videos, sadly that's no longer possible. You can download the video's 'script' via certain websites then translate that, if there's anything in particular you'd like to know. I wish I could add proper subtitles to all my films but that's another job in of itself.

@@floriangadsby Just adding English captions would be helpful to a lot of people. I personally always have captions on when they’re accurate and not the automatically generated ones that tend to get confused right when my brain needs clarification the most.

I know the pouring method but I've bad experiences using it with this particular glaze as it tends to dry very quickly on the surface of pots so it quickly overlaps and becomes thick and irregular, but maybe I just need more practice!

I do! Narrow bases have sort of become a characteristic of my work, so I lean into that.

Here’s a good link to an article that goes into more depth about it, ceramicartsnetwork.org/ceramics-monthly/ceramics-monthly-article/Techno-File-Dirty-Dishes, and clears up some of the misconceptions that are spread around. As long as you properly wash crazed pottery there is no bacteria left in the crackles. As long as you take time to care for your handmade ceramics after they’ve been used then they’ll be just fine, but of course it does depend on the materials used and temperatures fired to. I’ve been using crackle glazed ceramics for years. My pots are highly fired stoneware with nothing nasty that could leech, the crackling doesn’t stain too badly as long as it’s properly washed but of course it happens overtime. To the same degree, many of the potters I’ve worked for over the years who wood fire, soda fire and so on, all have work that crazes and crackles to some degree and it all stains with time, yet functional work is still made abundantly and is completely usable. I saw this in Japan especially, with so many functional tableware pieces that were crackled/crazed and stained and no body blinks an eye, nor do you hear of an excessive amount of people getting ill. My clay is fully vitrified after being fired to 1300ºC and unless you take terrible care of your ceramics you’ll be perfectly healthy. Other clays, like earthenware, never fully vitrify and will absorb water if not glazed properly, that can be issue. For industrial use it could be a problem, due to the surface of the pot having less strength, long-term staining with use and fragility, as it’s high fired stoneware packed full of iron, which makes it weaker and more susceptible to chipping on the whole, but that’s what you get with handmade ceramics, I don’t want to make pots that have perfect, uniform surfaces like you might find in a shop, I want each to be individual and interesting and handmade and I suppose the same goes for the generations of potters who’ve worked all over the world. I think certain parts of the world, I won’t say which, seem to have a fixation on this. And of course it is the potter’s responsibility to provide surfaces that are food safe, but in most cases that applies to the leaching of toxic materials, not staining itself. Hot dishwater water and soak will kill anything in the crackles, and they are gaping crevices in bacterial terms. Anyway, I hope this helps!

Ha ha ha, Florian. We were just talking in class about that modern preoccupation. There is never any lead in ANYTHING these days and high fire and careful handling should take care of the rest. We concluded that just living in NYC is much more dangerous than any crackled pot any of us would ever come across!!

the title sounded like cheap romcom anime

I could ask for likes and subs in every video or implement proper adverts for VPNs and online skills courses too. Those are options I'm very cautious of, as personally I feel they interrupt the flow a little too much, but in the same way a good book title/chapter title alludes to what's to come, I think a good title can work to the same effect too, which I think it does in this case as it isn't inaccurate. I don't think you ever have to worry about me leaning towards a more grabby, obnoxious style, can you imagine me shouting and demanding you all SMASH THAT LIKE BUTTON? That's simply not in me, but a one-off title that's slightly different than the norm isn't going to damage my channel I think. Making videos is a living for many people and in lots of cases we need to try and gain more views, to keep the money flowing, so time/effort can be spent producing them and it really is a difficult balance. I do fear that constantly reusing titles such as "Trimming/Throwing/How to Make/Pottery/Pots etc", can all start to feel very similar and my videos might get lost in a skin-toned-pottery-mush, so let's see. If this video performs exceptionally well because of the title, and the content remains the same as the rest of my output, then I don't see much of an issue. Appreciate the comment and the discussion and most of all, you taking the time to watch. edit: This is now my best performing video out of the last ten uploaded, according to data from the first one hour, six minutes...

How about you pay go his bills? Why judge a person for trying to grow. It's just a title. Has the content changed in any meaningful way?

@@floriangadsby I understand it's a tricky balancing act between boring and repetitive while also remaining true to your craft. Just thought I'd share my thoughts since it's the first time I've noticed such a change in one of your titles(and I'm sure I must have seen nearly all of them by now). I agree loud sponsored segments would be quite a jarring change as a regular viewer and your bison tool shout outs definitely suit you much better(I know they arent sponsored but I think similar, relevant sponsorships could suit your content) Thanks for the light hearted reply, keep doing what you do, we're all very grateful

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