This week I'm tackling a large bowl. Two kilograms of high iron stoneware, thrown and trimmed, problems are encountered and fixed and pictorial examples are shown of what I hope this piece achieves once coated in glaze and reduction fired to 1290ºC.

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⏱ • Timecodes:
0:09 - Weighing out and wedging the clay, 2 kg
0:50 - My first failed attempt at the bowl...
1:20 - Attempt number two
5:49 - Flipping the bowl onto it's rim
6:03 - Correcting an undulation in the rim
7:45 - Adding a detail to the rim
8:54 - Turning the base of the pot
11:47 - Trimming the foot-ring
12:52 - My second error (followed by fixing it)
14:55 - The finished bowl, for now.

*It's worth noting! That you won't get the same results as I do if you're firing in oxidation. The reduction firing really helps with this process.

*I throw using both a Rohde HMT 500 & 600 potter's wheel and fire using Rohde kilns too, the electric is a TE-200 and the gas kiln is a KG-340.
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