How I recycle my clay with Simon Leach

August 8th, 2022
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[@scottclay4253]

I always enjoy your posts. Thank you, Simon.

[@wreynnwood4097]

Thankyou! Helps for me to see not just read.

[@Jason-lk7kr]

Looking forward to a new shirt!

[@xenophile620]

Enjoy your vids. I recently found you from some old vids you did where you converted an old electric kiln to gas. I'm doing the same. I found someone getting rid of a bunch of pottery stuff. Good score for a newbie like me.

[@Lannie1948]

Thanks but shouldn’t you wear a mask with all the clay dust swirling around?

[@55camille]

My thoughts also

[@knightclan4]

You are making sense. Clay is made of different size particles. Slip is the finest of the particles

[@knightclan4]

Great video

[@ptonpc]

Fascinating.

[@anitashearman4725]

Great to recycle clay!!! And, I love my Leach wheel!! I stopped using my electric wheel, now it’s kick wheel all the way!! Great way to control speed, much more enjoyable making pots and such!!!

[@lauramorrow3562]

Simon, I suggest your videos to all my students. Great video! love the T shirt .

[@68glp]

Love this - thank you for showing all of the little things you do -

[@eddiespottery8439]

Nice job Simon. I have always did my clay the same way, but I use a power mixer on you drill to speed up the process. I know you talker about doing a work shop in Texas before to long. I hope you will take some videos when you are there. eddie.

[@larrylass4268]

Love your videos. I used this method to recycle clay as a beginning potter. Purchased a Peter Pugger mixing/pug mill to make my own throwing clay from dry material. I now directly use what would have been recycled to directly make fresh throwing clay. Best investment in the studio given shipping costs of bag clay because I am not shipping wet clay.

[@user-hx4jz1td5w]

Я восхищаюсь Вами!!! Ваши работы - прекрасны!!!!

[@kevinh5024]

Nice video Simon.

[@BrenzerM]

Thanks Simon

[@katekaniff5987]

✨Clay IS the way💫 back on The Wheel today… A few GP bowls for a fundraiser … Yee HAW! Thanks Simon!

[@clayartideas]

Beautiful ❤.

[@deerhearted]

I let my throwing water settle, pour off the water to reuse again and reclaim all the settled clay... Often times I find my reclaimed clay is too soft because I don't typically have much dry groggy stuff to add back in but I don't think that can be helped much other than to mix in some fresh clay when I wedge it. Keeping a smaller reclaim bucket forces me to do smaller batches more often, making it less of whole ordeal. I am still working on it. I just hate waste.

[@suzannefurman3957]

I had tables whose whole surface was a giant bat. Once the soggy clay was on the surface evenly about 4 inches thick would cover with plaster bars til the consistency I needed. Wedge and line a plastic trash can on bottom with vinegar soaked rag and repeat til full. Vinegar grows mycillium. A stringy white substance. Makes the clay plastic

[@refugiopoint]

That's cool.......I'd think a mask would be important to cut down on the silica exposure, gotta keep this stud around as long as we can.

[@suzannerouleau6127]

Could you give the next vidéo which complète this one?

[@helentaylor9062]

If I lived in the US I’d buy you a new watering can 😀

[@Lannie1948]

Simon, I made a plaster bat in a large plastic bin using potters plaster but when I tried to dry out the clay bits of the plaster are getting into the clay. I left the plaster to dry for quite a while. Did I use the wrong ratio of water to plaster? Thanks

[@kevinleong4467]

How do you dry it out after slaking it down?

[@suzannefurman3957]

It helps grow mycillium. And that makes the clay plastic.