How to Make A Pottery Dinner Plate - Part One

In this week's video throwing of dinner plates, which I'll be trimming in next week's video. As well as showing how I make these plates I also go over wedging clay and the condition I want it in for these and how prepare a pad of clay for the 'throwing bats' to be attached onto.
Thanks for watching as always, it's so appreciated and if you would like to see what I'm up to everyday you can follow me along on Instagram: Instagram - / floriangadsby
Timecodes:
0:00 - Introduction
0:11 - Wedging up soft, reclaimed clay
2:00 - Throwing a pad of clay to attach the throwing batt onto
4:00 - Attaching a batt
4:21 - Wedging very soft clay for the plates from 1360 grams
5:05 - Throwing the plate
9:13 - Adjusting my throwing gauge's pointer
10:39 - Throwing the plate from a birds eye view
15:06 - Clean up
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The master! What a great video. I'm prepping to throw a plate or two today so these tips are incredibly helpful. Thanks Florian!

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Thank you... and I hope it proves useful! There's a million ways of making plates and this really is just one approach, but I wish you the best, they're fun to make when the clays in the right condition.

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I love your videos so much, they have helped me learn how to throw more than any class I took in college. Thank you! I have been doing your technique of attaching bats with the pad of clay, but I recently discovered bat grip sponges which are inexpensive and make the process much quicker for me. Have you ever tried these?

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Great vids, I find using damp chamois leather as a super way of sticking batts to the wheel without clay.

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I've never tried those but should give it a try. Thanks for watching!

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Thanks for this video, Florian. I just started on a plate throwing adventure to produce plates for my family. Your advice will be put to use tomorrow. I am going to hydrate my clay a little more before I throw. The plates from 2 days ago were with dryer clay and were a struggle. Your video helped me figure out some issues I was having with my throws. Can’t wait to watch the trimming videos. Do you ever throw on plaster bats?

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[@leesaewon]

Thank you so much for the video! I am taking away good tips from you. One question, at what stage do you lift the plate from the bat? I guess leather hard? I have had my plates even after wiring off after throwing, it is stuck and have lost a few when I had to re-wire. What am I doing wrong? Thank you!

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Have you ever made bonsai pots? Would be really cool

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how convenient! I'm wanting to make my bff a dinner set for a wedding gift but have noooo idea how to make a plate!!!

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I hate wedging. Love your videos!

[@floriangadsby]

Haha, on smaller scales I don't mind it, it's a little bit therapeutic. I used to hand wedge batches of 150kg during my apprentice days, so I'm happy I don't have to do that anymore, although it was a good workout!

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I'm saving up for a de-airing pug mill myself.

[@Mortifier21]

Hmm, having control over moisture content from start to finish seams like it could be a cool advantage to making reclaim.

[@floriangadsby]

It certainly helps a lot. I can also add the soft reclaim to harder blocks of new clay to soften it down.

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@@floriangadsby Are you able to purchase clay at varying moisture content from producers? I suppose that would just be paying for water if sold by weight or volume lol

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Thank you, Matt!

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Hi Florian. Happy birthday to you man! 30 on the 30th! In this and other video's you use a wooden handled triangle tool to clean the bat and foot area of work. What tool is that? I've been trying to find one for awhile with no success. I gravitate more toward asian/Japanese styles and pottery and I appreciate your path through your internship to your teachings. Thanks & peace, John B

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Hi Florian, thank you for this amazing video. Can you make a video on how you dry and prevent warping especially for plates?

[@floriangadsby]

I think I mention how I do it in a few videos - but I'll add it to my list of things to potentially cover in the future. They key is to dry them very slowly and evenly. Cover with plastic wrap if you can, (old dry cleaners plastic works great), and definitely don't rush the process.

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@@floriangadsby Thank you for the reply. This is my first comment on any KZbin video 😅. I recently started pottery (in my mid 30s) with hand building then moved on to wheel throwing a month ago. Your videos on centering, pulling up cylinders and trimming really helped me along the way. Now that I'm more comfortable with cylinders I'm moving on to plates and I have thrown a couple, waiting for them to dry covered. I have a similar interest in making functional pieces. Bdw I have seen people using weighted bags to prevent warping. Anyways looking forward to your videos on the same.

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Hi Florian, this was a very informative video! Question, what speed is your wheel at throughout different steps of the process? My teacher has always told me full speed while centering, but half speed while expanding and pulling up. Were you going half speed from ~7:55 onwards? or 8:05? Thank you so much !

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Do you not worry about adding wood splinters to your reclaim clay by running your scraper along the wood during clean up? I've used a scraper on plaster when drying reclaim and accidentally had shards go into my clay!

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Love the video! Im just getting into ceramics and learning im slab building so I was wondering if there's a benifit to making plates on the wheel instead of with slabs and in your opinion is it a big enough difference to warrant learning the wheel?

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It’s more a matter of aesthetics than anything else. I feel like it’s easier and faster to make round, symmetrical plates on the wheel rather than throwing by hand. But then again I hate handbuilding so I’m probably biased.

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Your bats? Are made of? Plywood? Mdf? Thanks for sharing this info with all of us!😊

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Were your starting clay weights discovered from trial and error or is there a formula you use after creating a first prototype? (Like add 20%)

[@floriangadsby]

They're collected from trial and error and from experience. In college we'd be given specific shapes to make and through taking notes I've ended up with quite a thorough list of weights for certain shapes. Then, with time and lots of practice, you can sort of pick and choose and alter those.

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اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَعَلَى آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ كَمَا صَلَّيْتَ عَلَى آلِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ إِنَّكَ حَمِيدٌ مَجِيدٌ، اللَّهُمَّ بَارِكْ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَعَلَى آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ كَمَا بَارَكْتَ عَلَى آلِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، إِنَّكَ حَمِيدٌ مَجِيدٌ»..

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Thanks Florian ! Are these 25cm plus flange ?

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[@smilecentaur]

Do your wrists hurt after all the wedging each day, as it looks like you push at an awkward angle for your wrist?

[@floriangadsby]

They don't! I think maybe as I've been doing it for so long, and from a young age, that my body has sort of acclimatised to the process. That, or I just haven't discovered any pains yet...

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@@floriangadsby I think that makes sense, your method of wedging also most likely puts the weight not on the wrists themselves I was mainly asking as when I draw for long periods my wrist will start to hurt so I was curious if that translated to other hands on crafts. Thank you for the reply 😊

[@sabinamorin67]

Hi! Wondering what is the diameter of the plate in its wet form?

[@bolaith1410]

Nice plate.... I want to know something can I use stoneware for drink if I fire it with 800 c' with out glazeing it .... is it save to use

[@ragnkja]

If you use an unglazed mug for coffee you probably can’t ever use it for tea afterwards, same as how an unglazed clay cooking vessel that has been used for fish will always impart a fishy taste to anything cooked in it afterwards.

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Burnishing the vessel when leather hard helps control porosity by “closing down” the surface. You can also try milk treatment or cereal treatments of the interior to cut down on porosity(check out Andy Ward on YT for methods). There is also a liquid quartz sealant available which is supposed to be food safe. People ate and drank for centuries from unsealed pottery so it’s more than possible, but using some kind of treatment makes vessels much more useful.

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How thick do you throw the base of the plate before trimming?

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جميل جدا😍🤎👍Beautiful

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Sorry about that 😬

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Damn i really wanted to see you take off that clay at the end 👀

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Did you make the throwing gauge? I need one of these myself. I just haven’t took the plunge. ($$)

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Our ancestors, over the centuries, developed the technology of dinner plates so that we would no longer eat off the floor, out of the mud. And here we are in 2023, full circle :)

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8:01 good

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What is the name of clay where can i buy?

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Is it true that dinner plates are really hard to make for beginners?

[@floriangadsby]

They're tricky, especially if you're turning proper feet on them. But soft clay really does make it easier, what's trickier perhaps is firing them, and that's often why pottery studios/teachers/etc won't let you make them for classes as they eat up space in then kiln compared to say mugs, bowls, which you can squeeze together and fire loads of. What's most difficult is throwing and trimming them to look exactly the same, so they stack neatly and the spacing between the rims stays the same, but that's only really important if you're being very particular and critical, like me.

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Wait... What's the gauge for?

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I wish you can teach me how to do it

[@floriangadsby]

Well, I may not be able to personally, but hopefully these videos provide some useful information. Thanks for watching!

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What kind of clay sir?? Is it porcelain clay..