How to throw bottles and vases

[@jackiemorrison6024]

Its ok.. we love watching..you could make 2 hr videos, Id watch every min. I learn so much from you! Thank you for all you do!

[@Vsmithpots]

Thanks, this was 1hr46minutes before I edited it.

[@DebbieFilleul]

I love watching the videos! I've learned so much and inspired by your techniques

[@connieworcester55]

I can't stop watching your videos. So interesting.. . Thank you for sharing your knowledge...

[@Vsmithpots]

Thanks for saying so.

[@petergregorypottery5476]

Pure Magic, a lovely demonstration!

[@buckgreen4598]

THESE VIDEOS ARE GREAT...THANK YOU !

[@ЕвгенияКозлова-и4ш]

Восхищаюсь Вашими руками!!!! Это так прекрасно!!!! Хорошее точное объяснение Все очень корректно!!!!!’

[@Vsmithpots]

Спасибо, это заняло много лет. Всем хорошей весны и мира.

[@maniacmikepepperhead3040]

Your always a pleasure to watch.

[@Vsmithpots]

Thank you

[@diannaflynn8209]

Since I first located your videos I have learned so much more about working with clay. I think when I can work with clay again I will have so much more confidence.

[@Vsmithpots]

I hope you can get back to it soon.

[@jackiemorrison6024]

Love watching you throw

[@Vsmithpots]

Thanks

[@missyrnmissyrn7479]

Thank you so much for making this video for me!!! I can’t wait to get off and throw in the morning! Gonna try all these tips and tricks! Thanks again

[@Vsmithpots]

Have fun, let me know how you do.

[@sallyweiner4180]

I learn so much from you and in the most peaceful way!

[@triciac1019]

I have been binge watching for a few days now, as I can, since it's just days before Christmas. You explain things so well and I am learning so much. I have gotten back into pottery after being away from it since high school, 48 years ago. I go to a studio and since I can spend hours there, I feel like I am getting better faster. I did a huge amount of mugs for Christmas presents. Your work gives me such inspiration and ideas. There are some things like the massive urns I will not be able to make because of their size, and your stenciled pieces and your wife's painted pieces, but I will be trying a lot of your work. I will be buying some of your work and your wife's later on because they are so beautiful, so unique, and very reasonably priced. Especially with all the work you have done on them. Thank you for sharing your techniques. It had been too long since I had done pottery.

[@Vsmithpots]

Thanks for watching and I am glad they are helping you. I will post again on Sunday and there are some very beautiful glazed mugs in the end segment. Have a great Xmas and a safe one.

[@mikeu5380]

Hi from Japan. Excellent instruction and demonstration. Just one thing... Why not run a chamois leather around the rim for strength? Thanks!

[@Vsmithpots]

Thanks for the comment, I have a tool I designed and use on the rim when I use gritty clay, the white porcelain style clay does not need it. I will show the tool again in my next videos. Freddie Moretti has a 3D printer program to make it.

[@Vsmithpots]

I have a tool I designed to compress the rims, I use it on gritty clay, but the B-mix seems to be OK without it. Freddie Moretti came up with a 3D printer program to make it, he comments a lot, if you want to make the tool ask him for the program. Thanks for watching. I am jealous you live near Mashiko.

[@darikabarker7473]

Hi Vaughan.Greetings from England. Please could you add a’Thanks’ button on your channel. I really enjoy watching and learning from you so much that I want to buy you a coffee.🙏✨

[@Vsmithpots]

Thanks, I now have to figure that out. I tried to put a Subscribe button which seems to take people from the video to my home page where they can subscribe, then they have to find the video they left. I am sure there is a better way to subscribe but I cannot figure it out. I need a teenager in my life.

[@milavalle1251]

Muito obrigada...aprendo muito com você!!

[@Vsmithpots]

Thank you.

[@xm3364]

Just happened to watch this video. Very close up demonstration of the fingers inside as well as outside to get the wall going up. I was taught to position the fingers-both inside and out like a clip. Unfortunately, it didnt work for me. Does the inside finger stay vertical while outside finger tilts at an angle and 45 degrees, apply to all throwings? As camera shot at different angle in various videos, cant really sure about it. Thanks a lot for doing a close up clip.

[@Vsmithpots]

I throw with my fingers at 45 degrees. The outside hand is at a lower level so it touches the clay last. Good luck.

[@joradngimpel]

Can you do a closed vessel tutorial ? Would love to see :)

[@Vsmithpots]

OK I will add it to the list .

[@Matt-rm2zf]

7:26 how did you manage those last pulls when the inside was already dry?

[@Vsmithpots]

As long as you have a consistent surface with no dry spots and no slippery areas, all the same moist surface, you can do a pull gently. Some potters do what is called dry throwing, not me.

[@freddiemoretti8456]

Vaughan, sharing all these pointers and techniques are going to take some time. Video did not seem too long to me while having breakfast this morning, after riding my trike to the grocery store and back at 7:00am. While watching the bottle throwing it brought up the drying process of turning pots upside down to dry. Is that something you do on a regular basis with mugs and the like, do you think it is necessary for any pot to dry well? I imagine it may have an effect on the time it takes to dry, mmm? Thanks for posting!

[@Vsmithpots]

Hi Freddie, I do turn some pieces upside down but mostly not. I have three large damp cupboards that do the same thing, which is slow down and even out the drying process. The key is to stop pieces from drying unevenly. This video was 1hr46mins before editing. My wife fell asleep watching it last night, after I edited most of it out. I have a couple of glaze firings to unpack tomorrow. Flower paintings and the landscape pieces. I am in to painting flowers now, it must be spring. Too bad we have snow tomorrow night. Stay safe. We are just weeks away from our first vaccine.

[@freddiemoretti8456]

@@Vsmithpots Good to hear you will be getting the vaccines soon. My ride to pick up messages this morning was crisp at around 46 F degrees. Cool on my feet with sandals and no socks. Will be repeating the trip tomorrow just for milk. Cheers!

[@Vsmithpots]

@@freddiemoretti8456 35F here this morning so no frost. White over in the morning again.

[@marmonmondelaers7190]

Hi Vaughan, As always, well done ! I was inspired by your Randy’s Red glaze and I tested today my new Randy’s Red glaze with ‘Colemanite’ and it was a disaster. It ruined my kiln shelves (not runny, but splashes all over my kiln shelves). Weird !

[@Vsmithpots]

I have some Colemanite so I wont use it. Thanks. Did it dry all cracked and flake off in the firing. I have a glaze that does that. I think it means there is too much clay in the glaze. Here is a paragraph from Digital fire. Higher percentages of colemanite in a glaze can result in wrinkling of the fired surface, likely due to to a phenomenon called 'decrepitation' (very active decomposition) that occurs when colemanite is heated. The glaze layer can actually delayer, even disintegrate if sufficient colemanite is present (pieces of glaze can be spit off the ware onto other ware or the kiln shelf. For many applications Ulexite is thus a better choice. If you must use Colemanite, be sure to screen out any materials coarser than 200 mesh, or ball mill the glaze. Gum or other binders also help.

[@marmonmondelaers7190]

Vaughan, here is the recipe - from Glazy.org 17221 (in grams - I live in Belgium 😊). Colemanite 32 - Silica 30 - Nep. Sye. 20 - Talc 14 - Kaolin 5 - Red Iron oxide 15%. Usually I use FF 3134 or Gerstley Borate but now I used Colemanite for the first time. After firing it did not flake off or run of the pots. The glaze was all over the kiln shelves (splashes around the pots). Very weirth.

[@Vsmithpots]

@@marmonmondelaers7190 It seems that is what Colemanite does if it is not sieved through a 200 mesh sieve, which would be very hard to do. Here is my recipe. Randy’s red Gerstley Borate 30.6% Laguna Clay company makes a substitute that I use. silica 29.61 Kona F4 19.68 Talc 13.81 EPK 5.05 Bone Ash 1.26 RIO 15.14

[@marmonmondelaers7190]

Thanks Vaughan for the recipe. I’m never going to use Colemanite again.

[@missyrnmissyrn7479]

Can’t wait to see them glazed

[@Vsmithpots]

Next week, thanks.

[@caldwellthomas5332]

With one pound of clay and a 3 inch width, how tall are your cylinders before you shape them?

[@Vsmithpots]

At a guess I would say 6 inches.

[@pavlentos]

thx!

[@Vsmithpots]

Thanks for watching.

[@FFSS60]

Hi Mr. Smith, How much clay do you use in this video when you throw the bottle? Thank you!

[@Vsmithpots]

440gms

[@AdriansPotteryArt]

is this the directors cut?

[@Vsmithpots]

I cut out an hour of video so my wife would not fall asleep in it.

[@Mangobattie]