Making Stoneware Bowls, from Throwing to Firing - Back to Basics

[@Jorge.ALXNDR]

that's one of these random channels that I learn to love

[@tree8103]

I appreciate the repetitive nature of your videos. With each video, I feel like I become more and more familiar with your process as a production potter. Thanks for sharing.

[@trickyname]

Watching crafts people work their magic on KZbin is so much more satisfying than watching mindless entertainment on regular TV, and makes me wonder at the hours I feel I've now wasted on TV shows over the years. Thanks so much for sharing your love of your craft with the world, and your great style of editing and narration makes these a real pleasure to watch

[@janaaseeri8766]

I absolutely don’t mind watching the same forms of pots that you make. I find your content really enjoyable and useful, whether on youtube or instagram

[@stephaniebriggs1296]

This is an extraordinary (non-tutorial) tutorial. Thanks for the helpful tips. I too enjoy the trimming more than throwing. As a beginner, I appreciate your clear narrative style.

[@floriangadsby]

So pleased you found it useful. It's hard knowing how to keep these videos informative and interesting, rather than being a 20 minute ramble, so that's good to hear!

[@MTMF.london]

Wow, I didn't realize there were so many steps involved in producing a piece of stoneware. You have tremendous patience. Great skills too and the end product shows it.

[@maucarden]

I love how this is a craft/business/art kind of job.

[@Elleffe]

Thank you for another lovely video - every time the bowl comes up to the gauge I hold my breath even though I know you have thrown now millions of these bowls 😆

[@annaheya2109]

I keep saying this, it's relaxing to watch the narration

[@marktaylor865]

I think so.

[@maisoncory4967]

I realize it's kind of off topic but does anybody know a good place to watch newly released tv shows online ?

[@marktaylor865]

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[@wellsfernando7525]

@Maison Cory I would suggest Flixzone. You can find it by googling :)

[@raidenpatrick3278]

@Wells Fernando yea, been using flixzone for years myself :)

[@lindapetroccione6515]

Your videos - every one of them - just make me happy.

[@dizzybishop9240]

They are very beautiful!! The glaze just enhances it and brings the whole vessel together!!

[@samuelharley_]

I’ve been making batches and batches of 3, 2, and 1 pound bowls. There is nothing more satisfying to trim, I think. Throwing bowls for 5 or 6 hours is just so much fun because of the muscle memory and fast work.

[@nononono3421]

Thank you Florian for all the content you share about your experience!

[@ishrakbenali743]

i saw this channel by chance and now i can’t stop watching! weirdly satisfying 🤤❤️

[@SallyRoperPottery]

I just love your videos Florian. The process is simple only because of your production skill. I don’t think we ever stop learning, the world of ceramics has an infinite cache of lessons to be discovered. You helped me source the gauge and it has made my life so much easier as I throw forms with similar dimensions.

[@valentinevienne563]

I just discovered your channel. What a gift! Thank you. Your work is beautiful, humble, poetic. I wish you the very best on your journey.

[@dinorahackland-snow5657]

Hi, I am from Ontario, Canada, i really like your work!! I am trying to learn about pottery in the last year, but you do not have idea how difficult is here, first for find the right clay, and the most difficult thing if find some place for rent de klin, in nearly imposible. I understand with your videos how difficult is use the klin and a lot of knowledge. Just I hope after this pandemic the things start to be a little easy.! Congratulations for your work!

[@lexthehistorian3997]

I miss wheel-work. This helps me remember what it felt like, thank you!

[@turaelisabethcanals7153]

Thank you for these videos. Very relaxed and instructive!

[@shanemilehi]

Lovely. Thanks

[@theceramicrepairstudio]

Really interesting to watch, love the studio.

[@nospam-hn7xm]

Stunning work. Beautiful stoneware. Great philosophy. Thanks for sharing!

[@mr.cactus2077]

I love your videos so much and I’m amazed every time you use your hands to take off a piece from the bat. Could you possibly make a video to go more in-depth on how to do that? I’ve tried so many times but I always seems to squish the piece instead of gently lifting it off the bat. Thanks :)

[@plwashakhann521]

Love to watch Ur videos..... 👍👍👍👏👏👏

[@anishakumar1199]

Love your videos! ❤️ Everything is so perfect and organized!

[@nickacoutin2505]

Now that was a great video trying to throw the same shape over and over is not easy you have it down pat. 👍

[@celestesantos7103]

Great stuff! I enjoyed every minute as always, but makes me "homesick" for wheelwork. I am constantly amazed at both how lovingly you work and how generously you share. Your maker mark truely reflects upon it, no matter the meaning choosen - ANSUZ

[@oliviapearsall9788]

Those are beautiful

[@tracyairth8625]

Really great information throughout! Thank you.

[@cameronhall285]

Love your videos! It’d be awesome to see a full studio tour, saw some cool plants outside of a window in this vid

[@GregDravenActor]

Just awesome. Well narrated and explained.

[@steffie1692]

im learning new things from your videos, thank you for sharing 😊

[@floriangadsby]

Thanks for taking the time to watch!

[@marktaylor865]

They really look beautiful.

[@mattthescreamer177]

Great video brother, thanks for posting

[@BassPotter46]

Good video Florian! Thank you!

[@Bake_That]

Your dishware is gorgeous! You're so creative!

[@GoingtoHecq]

So much work for each piece. It's hard to believe you make a profit.

[@PierreLucSex]

Beautiful work and pieces.

[@abbigailclark1156]

Phenomenal video as always. Left a like👍😊

[@novabox1]

Amazing and inspiring videos - hope to visit your studio one day

[@shazmac334]

So good👍looking forward to seeing more

[@victoriamiskolczy6336]

Beautiful work, Mr Gadsby! I love your glazes, but my studio does only mid-fire, so even if I had the recipe you’re using, I don’t think I could achieve such lovely transparency, markings and crackle.

[@ragdollmay7]

Thank you so much. I have so much to learn.

[@glowingeye]

Woooow, I‘m just new to your channel and I love it! I‘ll surely be hanging around for a while...

[@JulyCocoaMonkey16]

These bowls are some of my favorite pieces!! They look so cute like little tasting bowls♡ will you ever do a red glaze? I love that you're one of the only people ive seen use red clay & I'd really love to see a nice deep crimson one of these bowls❤

[@EvaFariou]

Beautiful!!!!! ♥️

[@AJohnson0325]

one big tip is that once your piece starts getting pretty wide you have to slow the wheel speed way down. When I was new I used to have the electric wheel go way too fast but you don’t need it most of the time. Now I would prefer to throw on a kick wheel ouside and the wheel speed is slow enough that I can feel the clay slithering through my fingers when I pull up the walls.

[@GotA-do4ob]

Your pieces are always so beautiful Florian! I love coming to your channel for advice or inspiration. So much of your work is "simple" in form, but the amount of care you put into them can really be felt and seen in every piece. Your work holds a wealth of experience behind it, so I love visiting your channel when I'm in a funk. I'm still very new to pottery, but as I throw more and more and get a little better after every trial and error, I'm finding that I take comfort in forms that are simple in nature and whose spirit and purpose can be best experienced simply by feeling it in your hands or enjoying the use it brings you. Thant being said, I have personally found that my own decoration style leans a lot on sgraffito techniques, and I am very inspired by Greek Black and Red figure pottery. I love contrasts between the natural clay and the simplicity of slip and clear glaze. How did you settle into the style you use now? Was there a time where you wanted to use techniques such as slip trailing and sgraffito, or did you always enjoy using style similar to what you do now?

[@thelukesternater]

Glad to hear that you reuse the trimmings, perhaps a video?

[@floriangadsby]

Already done so, you should be able to watch it here, kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5TSZmivnsSIbNU

[@zzzzzz-il1iq]

So neat

[@54114142]

How do you know how much material you can take off? How thin the wall already is? Just experience? I know in woodworking when turning a thin object they often use light on the backside so see how thin the walls are.

[@floriangadsby]

Experience mostly. I can always take the bowl off the wheel and feel the weight, and therefore judge how much more needs to be trimmed away but with this shape, which I’ve made thousands of times, I more or less know what the limits are. If I’m trimming a shape I’m not so trained on I’ll always feel the thickness of the walls before attempting to trim, just to gauge how much I can take off in certain areas. Thanks for watching!

[@VertexCarver]

Yay! ^^

[@davidbrown7188]

Lovely work. I’ve always enjoyed the turning process more than the throwing. Why do you call your biscuit firing “Bisque”? Bisque is when you do a high firing prior to a low glaze firing. Great videos. Great commentary. You keep it simple.

[@SuperAntonboy]

You're inspiring!

[@floriangadsby]

Thank you!

[@CarmeloEstablier]

Such a nice video! An absolute delight! Do you know when your shop will be open? I'd love to buy some stuff

[@floriangadsby]

Maybe next Sunday... and thank you too, of course.

[@gardengrass1026]

Nice 👌 👋👌 👋 👌 👋 👌 👋 👌

[@whitneywiley6906]

You’ve been such a help. Quick question: do you leave the wax on the base when you glaze fire? I’m guessing it’s absorbed well enough to not melt off but I’d hate to mess up a firing

[@floriangadsby]

Indeed! The wax just melts away during the glaze firing.

[@Pipsqwak]

I really like the look of your high-iron clay body. Do you mix your own clay or buy it ready-made?

[@sleephourofmotivatwakeupas6512]

Hi man!! Excellent work as well as video!! I have a doubt.. Can you explain how get complete black color after firing??

[@haris8853]

Why do you use the leather on the rims of your pots? Also I haven't watched the whole video yet but the bowls look beautiful 😊

[@floriangadsby]

The leather chamois smooths the rim and compresses the clay somewhat, neatening it up. I usually pinch the rims to give them a finer edge and then I soften that slightly with the leather. And thanks for watching!

[@Buster1001000]

Love the videos, thanks for sharing. What size ball of clay do you start with?

[@floriangadsby]

These are thrown from 1 lb, (453 grams) of stoneware clay and thank you!

[@Buster1001000]

@@floriangadsby thanks.

[@ALTOONAPPS2011]

I'm learning like I can get it centered but it's putting the whole in the middle and pulling it up I try to use same fingers as you do I guess I gotta get used to it I'm trying I failed real bad first 3 times I tried but I'm not gonna give up yet.. And I'm working with that air dry clay it seems harder idk I wanna try the brown

[@ilcadeak7588]

Your work is very beautiful. What brand and color of nail polish do you use?

[@angelangel2206]

Do u use same speed for centring and pulling up the walls ? I am huge fan of your centring process. 😍 I always use a few of your ways of pulling up walls and stuff while I am on wheels ( still student). I am not sure if you have any videos dedicated only to show the drying process of pieces (sorry if it’s already there. I am still gng through your videos one by one) please could u share a link. I am a student and I am still in phase wer my drying game is not strong 😅 Thank you in advance

[@chompers11]

Gorgeous, what did you glaze them with? Also any recs on a glaze that would work well for pit firing

[@hydra2019]

What type of clay is that? looks so cool

[@cheeseman18]

Really learning a lot from these videos, much appreciated Florian! I had a question regarding your glazes - I'm a beginner so this might be totally wrong, but I was under the impression that crackle glazes couldn't be classed as "food safe" due to them being difficult to clean or the potential for flakes of glaze to come off with regular use? Is that true? Or does it really depend on the properties of an individual glaze? Thanks a lot!

[@floriangadsby]

I’ve been using crackle glazed ceramics for years and years. It’s high fired stoneware with nothing nasty that could leech, the crackling doesn’t stain too badly as long as it’s properly washed but of course it happens overtime. To the same degree, many of the potters I’ve worked for over the years who wood fire, soda fire and so on, all have work that crazes and crackles to some degree and it all stains with time, yet functional work is still made abundantly and is completely usable. I’ve never heard any stories of anyone getting ill from crackle glazed pottery, the clay is highly vitrified and unless you take terrible care of your ceramics you’ll be perfectly healthy. For industry it could be an issue, due to the surface of the pot having less strength, long-term staining with excessive use and fragility as it’s high fired stoneware with lots of iron, which makes it weaker and more susceptible to chipping on the whole, but that’s what you get with handmade ceramics, I don’t want to make pots that have perfect, uniform surfaces like you might find in a shop, I want each to be individual and interesting and handmade and I suppose the same goes for the generations of potters who’ve worked all over the world. Here’s a good link to an article that goes into more depth about it, ceramicartsnetwork.org/ceramics-monthly/ceramic-glaze-recipes/glaze-chemistry/techno-file-dirty-dishes/, and clears up some of the misconceptions that are spread around. As long as you properly wash crazed pottery there is no bacteria left in the crackles. As long as you take time to care for your handmade ceramics after they’ve been used then they’ll be just fine.

[@cheeseman18]

@@floriangadsby Wow, really appreciate the time you took for such a detailed and informative reply. Will defintely have a read of the link you provided. I hope my question didn't come off as accusatory, there's just so much to try and learn and understand!

[@michelesimpson2237]

What is your clay body? Love your work.

[@floriangadsby]

It’s a high iron stoneware clay body manufactured to be reduction fired.

[@ClownWhisper]

i always was told not to use crackle glazes on functional ware???

[@keramikarishtana]

😳👍👍

[@angelacollier9256]

Is it possible to buy this glaze?

[@stevenschwagel8029]

Do you also work in porcelain?

[@hudaalseenani5422]

أنت مبدع / ما شاء الله/👏🏻💯👌🏻

[@markbradbury3474]

What type of clay are you using?

[@floriangadsby]

It’s a high iron stoneware clay body that works/looks it’s best when reduction fired.

[@markbradbury3474]

@@floriangadsby do you have any recommendations for a newbie of different clay to try? So far I have only used b-mix. Will not be reduction fired. Thanks! Love the videos!!

[@emilyhuang5309]

lol am i frist?

[@floriangadsby]

🥇

[@sleephourofmotivatwakeupas6512]

Hi man!! Excellent work as well as video!! I have a doubt.. Can you explain how get complete black color after firing??