Am I a potter? No Do I intend to pick up pottery as a profession or a hobby in the future? No Can I even throw? Actually yes but go figure how well Do I watch every single video this guy puts up, sometimes multiple times? Hell yeah Thank you for your content, your work is amazing and watching you in the process really helps me to relax during exam period (Also yeah trimming is so much more satisfying to watch than throwing I don't know maybe it's the primary instinct of oooh look at the stuff flying in long strips)
Florian you are the king of foot rings. All my foot rings look like yours. In fact I always guide wheel throwers to you. In school all potters leave class knowing who Florian Gadsby is. Beautiful work. And yes! Trimming is my fav part too.
Lovely work as always, I am sure it will turn out as a fantastic pot. The cross sections were very useful, made it easy to grasp what you were going for.
I've been working on larger forms, I find very meditative but I can't make those larger pulls yet. How much clay did you start out with for that bowl? I love your work. It is very technical. I hope to own a piece one day. I keep missing the sales.
You make it look so easy! I started 3 months ago and I've definitely gotten better but am still making weird lumpy uneven stuff 😂 some days I do awesome and end up with a great mug or bowl, and days like today I end up with soggy lumps of clay thrown on the ground in frustration lol
Thanks for sharing your process with us! I learn a lot from your videos and enjoy them a great deal too. I have a question: How do you treat air bubbles in the thrown pots?
I don't have to keep these Bison trimming tools sharp. They've made from tungsten carbide and hold their edge for a VERY long time, they're brittle though, so you can't drop them or they'll shatter. When I used to sharpen my old trimming tools I just used a bench grinder and a file, nothing fancy but the tools were cheap so they just needed a quick sharp edge as normal metal used blunts so quickly against coarse clay.
@@floriangadsby I thought that your trimming tools looked very sharp just looking at how the clay ribbions streamed off the pot - that explains it thanks.
Yes! For lots of forms. Not so much pieces that I make rarely, like these bowls, but it certainly makes a difference as I can spot where I go wrong and hopefully I’ll remember to correct it when it comes to doing whatever process it is again.
Wasn’t the softest stuff that’s for sure. My current order of clay is reaching the end which means it’s all bags that have been sitting there for a year or more.
