Cleaning Pots After Wood Firing - How To

Here’s the how to on how I clean up my pots after they come out of the wood kiln
Enjoy!
My wadding recipe:
In parts
5 sand
3 alumina
1.5 fire clay (Hawthorne Bond)
1.5 epk
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[@pottersjournal]

Such an important and less talked of or part of the process. Some bad wadding in an Anagama firing yielded some unfixable pots for me decades ago. They were prizes and family grabbed them. The fix tools today are much improved or more readily available. Great to see, thanks.

[@BlueBranchPottery]

Can you make a video about the process you used to create and shape your face mugs? I absolutely love your work and I'm so grateful for your videos. I've never watched a potter that explains things as well as you do. Your videos have been help in developing my skills further. 🙏

[@renaebettenhausen3611]

Thank you

[@TheDutchPotter]

Thanks for sharing. What recipe do you use to make the wadding?

[@MatthewKellyPottery]

Wadding recipe: In parts 5 sand 3 alumina hydrate 1.5 fire clay (Hawthorne Bond) 1.5 epk

[@deepashtray5605]

I know Matt has the experience, but for anyone who is not experienced with using an angle grinder don't hold anything in one hand and use the angle grinder in the other hand. Just don't, that's something that should be reserved for the professionals. A die grinder with a diamond wheel might be a better choice as those are much easier to use one handed and nowhere near as heavy. A fixed diamond wheel like a tile cutter would also work. A rubber mat, router mat or other gripping surface to work on would also help to hold the pot steady. Angle grinders are extremely powerful tools and one slip could end any prospective pottery career very quickly. Don't have to cut off a digit but just nick a tendon, nerve or blood vessel, or set it down wrong and eviscerate one's self (this is not hyperbole). It takes a grip like a monkey and forearms like Popeye to keep an angle grinder under control one handed. One last thing, good idea to take frequent breaks as those will definitely give your arm and hands a workout. Thank you.

[@MatthewKellyPottery]

Thank you for being thorough and not just blasting me for the way I did it. I probably should have been more clear with a warning about using an angle grinder.

[@Whatnok]

What happened to your arms? Looks so painful

[@MatthewKellyPottery]

I’m allergic to poison ivy/oak … whichever it was that I got into. I still have scars from that one, but it’s all good. Thanks for your concern