Throwing Miniature Pottery Lidded Jars

This time, I'm throwing the tiny bodies and lids of these miniature lidded jars you may have seen me trim previously, (see the video below to watch that process). These are finicky devils to make, the lids especially, all created with a high iron stoneware body and thrown on my potter's wheel. Watch me struggle making these and let me know what you think!
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⏱ • Timecodes:
0:00 - Introduction
0:14 - Weighing and wedging the clay (150 grams for the bodies)
2:25 - Centring small pieces of clay
3:26 - Talking about throwing miniature pots
8:29 - Making the lids
13:35 - Clean up
*It's worth noting! That you won't get the same results as I do if you're firing in oxidation. The reduction firing really helps with this process.
*I throw using both a Rohde HMT 500 & 600 potter's wheel and fire using Rohde kilns too, the electric is a TE-200 and the gas kiln is a KG-340.
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[@ronoconor]

Thanks so much for all of your videos! I recently took my first pottery class in years and I am going to join my local potters guild in the spring; in no small part thanks to you.

[@floriangadsby]

You’re very welcome! Thanks for taking your time to watch 🙌🏻

[@craftedbyorre]

1:42 “…which would mean that my making would be quite jarring” HA!

[@lb003g0676]

Oh... Only 3 comments and I didn't bother to read through to see this had already been posted :(

[@floriangadsby]

Couldn’t resist!

[@galacticmechanic1]

Captioning the dog is about a cute as the pots.

[@alexjohnson4567]

Long time fan of yours here. Lots of my work is inspired by your forms and methodology! Been thankful for everything you’ve done for the community and I love seeing all sorts of renditions of your work-miniature and hopefully some 2 or 3 piece vases soon?? LOVE it all no matter what. Cheers!

[@lb003g0676]

"...my making would be quite 'jarring'" @1:40 - Very on the nose, Florian!

[@pearkore6821]

Im an apprentice baker, and its interesting how much of your moulding techniques can transfer to moulding bread

[@EM-nn8dy]

Video suggestion: Carving designs into pottery and how underglaze and glaze interact with eachother on the same piece. I carved out leafs on my piece and put many layers of underglaze in the grooves of the carving and then put wax resist in the grooves and then dipped the whole piece into glaze. However im still struggling to understand the concept of carving and glazing.

[@elmarschmeisser7093]

These look very much like the Chanoyu chaire (Japanese tea ceremony tea caddies) I've been trying to build.

[@mohandask4898]

Im same working in Dubai

[@doggo6331]

(Ciro bark) Also how in the actual high iron stoneware did you manage to throw stuff that size with a third of a pound? I tried doing the same and failed epically

[@floriangadsby]

It’s tricky! There’s a knack to throwing that small, lots of delicate movements are needed and centring is an entirely different process.

[@craftedbyorre]

Not a potter, so probably a dumb question: What would happen if instead of throwing the lids on batts, you were to make a large cylinder of clay that you then cut into pucks? They would then be trimmed into shape when leather hard. This would make the throwing stage very quick, but I would guess the drying process would take unnecessarily long? And the trimming would take a lot longer as well?

[@craftedbyorre]

Maybe the more appropriate question would be: Could the lids be thrown off the hump?

[@xbaczewska4197]

I think throwing off the hump is a potter's choice. But in this case, the top of the lid is flat, so wouldn't the hump be less elegant, if not more difficult??

[@floriangadsby]

Definitely possible! And probably easier in some ways. I’ve thrown off the jump before and it is highly useful for shapes like this but I’m very much in the habit of throwing individual lumps, which in some ways I prefer as I can be very exact with the weight of clay used. Pucks would work, but having both flanges already formed to some degree really helps speed the process up. If they weren’t there I’d have to begin with a lot of ‘guess’ work to find the diameter of the flange, whereas with it already formed I know exactly where to trim from immediately. Although… like so the anything, with practice the puck method would probably be very easy too.

[@shravanmalipedi]

🙏😍👌🏿👌🏾👌🏽👌🏼👌🏻👌

[@6099x]

im very thankful to get to enjoy your process and the soothing narration that comes with it. Its a visual and auditory treat to watch an artisan like you - thank you! Can't wait to see the trimming, glazing and firing