Discussing Rims and Bottoms

[@stocktonnash]

Title got me leather-hard

[@not_that_anna]

Not this comment, I'm dead 💀💀

[@spookynutsack]

@@not_that_annawhen?

[@Hypermill024]

@7:06 Can't stop hearing erection....

[@miji2479]

Florian, I want to convey my deep gratitude for guiding me in learning essential pottery skills. As a novice potter who began classes last fall, your tutorial videos have been invaluable in my understanding. I appreciate the dedication evident in your efforts. Many thanks !

[@Nanamisglasses]

As a beginner in pottery, your videos have been a godsend and ive been binging all of them since yesterday. thank you for being such a great educator 💜

[@juanQuedo]

This is an entrance ticket to the world of flipping pots to judge others' bottoms

[@floriangadsby]

DO IT!

[@lobsterlover252]

That is… an unfortunate title

[@floriangadsby]

If it got you to comment it worked.

[@spookynutsack]

thats a gift

[@jamesyoungquist6923]

Yep, Florian knows his KZbin rim job work pretty well

[@tannaauger1]

Lost opportunity 😂

[@phillipmitchell2254]

Every vessel has a top and bottom 😏

[@boreduser1583]

A perfect title and the content is just holistic…

[@neojaxie2804]

This is a wonderful video, as not only you provide your thoughts behind why you chose the certain features for your pots, but it shows us viewers your thought process and philosophy behind making ceramics design decisions. Truly skills that I will take with me to the studio 🙇

[@camilabeltrame6763]

It may be short in time, but it is jam-packed with fantastic insights and reflection points! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge in such a high-quality way. I really appreciate it!

[@discostoo]

I've seen that title. You know what you did and I'm telling.

[@marrylo842]

When I have a lot of things on my mind and don't know if I should work or take rest or study ...I come here! Thank you for creating these videos.

[@antonea808]

Your study of pottery is impressive. So many details refined. Thank you for sharing your expertise

[@floriangadsby]

Thank you very much!

[@angelacollier9256]

Thanks for sharing your skill set, sir Florian.❤

[@vzeimen]

This was an excellent demo. Especially for the rims. I've always got a nice lifting shadow at the base but I'm always concerned of getting my rims to thin if I bevel them too much but I see what a difference it makes in this demo and I'm sold!

[@galacticmechanic1]

The inwards sloping rims might also help keep liquids inside the cup, useful in shaky situations.

[@thevagabondonwheels4918]

Very informative and I really appreciate the effort (and pot sacrifice) you put into demonstrating your points.

[@atheistmom]

I suspect there may be some surprised new viewers to Florian's channel this week. Also, doggy on the wheel! 🤩🤩🤩

[@SweetPickins]

This was such a good video- thank you so much!! And, what a cute little doggy 🥰

[@PotooBurd]

I enjoy this so much! Amazing content, best wishes to you and your future projects! 🌻

[@willemhekman1788]

Florian, how did you come to pick the depth of the bottom hollow? What are your thoughts about this subject? Maybe worth a video oneday? PS: I just ordered your book and am looking forward to reading it!

[@pots4mattsmom]

Thank you Florian. This was so very helpful!

[@denisenoble4010]

Thanks, you would think rims could be so interesting and varied

[@jules6731]

Thanks for the video!

[@bananabames8184]

I LOVE BOTTOMS!!!

[@Kraaketaer]

Yet another incredibly useful and informative video. I started noticing the importance of the shape of the lip of a mug long before I ever got into ceramics (I absolutely hate drinking from thick-rimmed mugs), and it's definitely one of the things I've been focusing on in my throwing. Can't say I'm anywhere near consistent with anything at all, but perhaps least of all this - the balance of making the rim the right shape, keeping both the taper and roundness around what you want is incredibly finicky and difficult for me. There have been far too many mugs and pots where I've had to re-do the rim quite a few times as I've either rounded it too much, thinned it too much, gotten the angle wrong, or some mixture of the above. But it's also great practice! Btw, do you have any advice for preserving relatively thinly thrown rims when trimming the base of a vessel? Making a leather-hard chuck isn't really feasible for me at least, and I've seen too many rims ruined from them sticking just a tad too well to the wheel while trimming.

[@silkvelvet2616]

I have a few bisq'd chucks that I soak in water for an hour or so, then stick to a batt or the wheelhead with reclaim, then I will add a layer of reclaim over the working area and trim back to be smooth and kind to protect rims. Use as usual. This allows you to adjust the chuck to the pots needing trimming. I have done it with fragile porcelain bowls with torn rims as well as mugs etc. Works a charm. Keeping a leather hard chuck isn't feasible for me either, so this is my solution.

[@Kraaketaer]

@@silkvelvet2616 Hm, that sounds pretty clever! Do you use a hot air gun or similar to dry the layer of reclaim on the chuck, or do you start out with it being pretty hard?

[@silkvelvet2616]

@Kraaketaer no, it doesn't take long to firm up enough to work with. Soaking the chuck for an hour only saturates it enough to let the clay stick to the bisq and not lift immediately if dry or slip off if totally soaked. After you've done it a few times, you'll get a sense of what's right for your chuck. Be sure to make them nice and thick so they last longer.

[@elyle]

Fascinating!

[@BostonBaby1000]

Very helpful. Thank you.

[@elioy3387]

okay, this is the first video of yours i've seen in a long, long time. so, good job, the title worked 😂 great content, as usual!! (i initially wrote a longer comment but i'm out here overthinking every word i'm typing. usually, i hide behind the "not my native language" shield or simply don't care but you're so formal and british that i feel like i'll be disrespecting you if i use wrong grammar )😂

[@silkvelvet2616]

I like to have a gentle slope outwards on my mug rims, but still with enough thickness to protect against the chances of chipping. As for footrings, my main product is yarnbowls. By their very nature, they need to be heavy, particularly bottom heavy. I have had a few potters (middle aged men) walk up to my stands at yatnshows, pick my yarnbowls up, feel the weight, snigger and walk away. I laugh at their ignorance every time. That aside, my compromise to giving that illusion of lightness and to protect the outer edge of the footring, is I round it off by a few millimetres. Its not so much a visual thing as my yarnies are very round and so the footring isn't really visible unless the bowl is elevated, but I know, and I make my work to last.

[@Stop528]

This is very useful, thank you!

[@cathybriggs8725]

Thank you for sharing ❤

[@lite0221]

Rims and Bottoms aye

[@wartris1]

0:17 for making it 100% through the entire video!

[@Chef_PC]

Just found this searching for something other than pottery. Now I have a new fetish. Thank you!

[@pamelabraman7217]

This subject is so helpful My goal is to eventually throw water sealed fermentation crocks If you have any experience with them I would love to learn more about them

[@bobcalhoun3714]

I've thrown several of these and I've picked up two useful tips. The inner lip should be higher than the outer lip so any excess water doesn't contaminate what you are fermenting. A top that slopes gently into the water trough rather than being even with the outer edges of the crock allows you to add water to the rim without lifting the lid. 🙂

[@deepashtray5605]

I don't think many people consciously realize how important the tactile aesthetics are in pottery, particularly for functional pieces.

[@McLilWilli]

I love your tutorial videos, they have helped me immensely. Do you have any plans of making a tutorial video about common mistakes beginners make?

[@acavoxnegledajtelevizor401]

All my pots change their shape during drying process i never get perfect circle at the end 😢. Im using homemade clay and coil building technique without whell. I think slightly different thickness in wall make uneven staying and shape losing. Or im wrong?

[@joancritz]

Thanks!

[@floriangadsby]

🖤 thank you!

[@グリーンルベラ]

動画ありがとうございました。

[@Argosh]

I'm curious, my father used to put those pieces that were glazed to the bottom on simple risers. Why isnt that an option in your mind?

[@floriangadsby]

It is! But not for my work, I guess it’s personal preference at the end of the day. On risers you’d have to spend time cleaning/grinding the base of each pot a lot more carefully. I’ve done it, in Japan, with the Oribe pots we made, but as the glazes I’m using at the moment are so thick, if I glazed the bottoms it would round the shape, and the definition of my trimming would be lost.

[@Argosh]

@@floriangadsby OK, that's perfectly understandable, I was just confused because I remembered my dad doing that almost 30 years ago. I will have to show him your channel, I think he deeply misses the time when he got access to a kiln.

[@prakharchawla]

I started pottery last year, till then you only had few basics covered like how to centre (which came naturally to me), how to pull outward from centre ... I kept starving for your videos covering basics coz i could see myself being more easily grasping your tried and tested methods. Now when i am away from my hobbies i want to somehow get back to it. I know you have trained few people but i want to vet trained here in India. Is there a way you can spare few hours weekly. Through your videos i have created bowls thin, delicate and light just like you taught later in your videos. I had a tough time pulling walls as thin but later i realised its all bcoz of rim it feels that they are super thin. I self realised your technique to slightly narrow rhe rim to outer circumference, which you also mentioned in a video earlier.

[@prakharchawla]

If only I could connect with you for training I could have kept my hobby alive and could have covered so much ground. I believe I am natural in the skill but by the time I wait for the videos i lost the sources to cover my hobby.

[@prakharchawla]

I still strive to achieve handles you make. But from the looks of it your clay is softer than what we usually get here. Would like to learn more about different clays, just like the textures you experimented with.

[@abomohamed601]

Is there a special mixture or a type of dish for cooking water?

[@koacado]

What do you mean by "mixture"? And cooking water refers to boiling water on a stove ?

[@abomohamed601]

Is sand or something mixed with other pottery clay, depending on the type of clay?

[@futuristicspider]

oh my god I forgot I opened this in another tab and I was minding my business when suddenly I see that title in my open tabs 💀 the mind gymnastics I was pulling going like wait no that's youtube it can't be.. what is that what did I click.. boom it's pottery 🤣

[@drmel94]

Cheeky! I approve. 😁

[@Aaron-hh8nx]

Cool

[@mrmoose7219]

rare doggie sighting

[@banzormcownage2437]

It's a shame you didn't glaze one of the square tops.

[@sandis52]

10:08 and 9:15 doesn't look very stable on the table. Why would you chose so small (in diameter) bottom! It's totally insane. I have knocked over my cup pf coffee n-times because of small bottom until I finally purchased a cylindrical cup. So imagine, you have a party and someone or you spill all over the table because of the small and dumb bottom!?

[@pansypresents2103]

florian gadsby taking a cue from nigella lawson on this one. sex sells, baby.

[@veronicasantos8269]

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