Pottery Top Tip: How to Give your Pottery Pieces a Professional Finish - Pottery Video/Tutorial
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2024
- Hello everyone - Welcome to my RUclips Channel - The Pottery Corner, coming to you from my studio in Chichester, on the South Coast of England. In this video I demonstrate how to finish the edges on your pottery pieces. Five minutes spent at the greenware stage cleaning up the edges (i.e. before the piece has been fired) will be well worth the effort on your finished work and is much easier and safer than sanding when the work has been biscuit/bisque fired. Remember to wear a mask to stop you inhaling the clay particles which are pretty nasty things.
I hope you find this demonstration useful. My work is available to purchase on my website via www.thepotterycorner.co.uk together with details of the courses available at the studio if you live in the locality.
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Look forward to seeing you again soon
Sarah Amos
I've been doing this for a long time. I thought I was so clever for thinking of it. 🤣
Hey Denny - you are clever! Thanks for watching 😊
Thanks so much. Very helpful 🙂❤
Thanks for watching Janine. Glad it's helpful 😊
Thanks again for sharing your knowledge.
Another totally useful video! Thank you. I was doing exactly what you were saying not to do...wiping with a sponge! And of course I couldn’t get the grit off of the piece, as hard as I would try. This will be such a helpful tip for me. Again...thank you. 🥰
Hi again Tami. So glad this video was helpful. It's sometimes the little things that help the most! Keep watching for more pottery tips - good to have you along 😁
As always great tips!
Thanks for watching Nanci - much appreciated 🙏
Greetings from Canada 🇨🇦! I’m a new subscriber- I love your videos; I have been binge watching them since being laid up healing a broken leg. 🙁 I tend to use green scrubbies, as you suggest, and wire mesh sanders torn into very small pieces, and of course, wearing a mask outside. I use a soft makeup brush to clear the dust. I agree that it’s much easier ( physically- speaking) to finish green ware compared to bisque ware. Many thanks again!
Thanks so much for watching Christina and I hope the leg is healing well. Great to have you along from the gorgeous country of Canada 🇨🇦 😀
Thank you, very important information. 🌞
Thanks for watching 😀
your pottery studio is one of the most pristine studios I have every seen. It motivated me to reorganize mine! thanks so much for your sharing.
Why thank you! With coronavirus we are having to be super clean to protect the students. I find the clean down at the end of a teaching session quite therapeutic. Thanks for watching. Watch out for more Top Tip Tuesday videos in the future
Thank you Sarah. I tried the scrubby and loved it. Best tip I’ve gotten in awhile.
Thanks Victoria. Glad to have been of help. Don't press too hard on delicate rims! Kind of you to comment 🙏
Great tips. Thanks! Loving your glaze kiln unloading videos. Hello from Prince Edward Island Canada.
Thanks for your comment- amazing that people view from across the world!
Yesterday I was able to use the sponge back for the first time to smooth the edge of the pottery. It worked out great. Thanks again for the tip. 🙂👍
Great! Thanks for the feedback. Gives a professional finish- well done.
Love how great a scrubby works on greenware, so easy! ... i still struggle to neaten or cut rims and edges. Especially before its leather hard! I hope to get a better handle on it. All the best Sarah. I am enjoying exploring with pottery. Brings such joy. Cheers for now.
Thanks Fern. More on professional edge finishing on the video to come this week - look out for that the scrubby features again! Thanks for watching 😀
Thank you so much for your videos which are so helpful for my role as a Pottery Instructor to adults with learning difficulties. I was rather thrown in the deep end when I began my job just before the lockdowns so my plan to attend courses was put on hold. I watch a lot of videos but few give such useful detailed information as yours on the practical logistics of making ceramics.
At work we have many failed attempts (we learn from these and have loads of fun doing so!) so I'm constantly recycling clay. I'd very much appreciate a Top Tip video on clay recycling and how to minimise air bubbles.
Thank you so much for your very kind words 😊. I'm so glad you find the content useful in your rewarding and challenging work with others. Stay tuned - more practical tutorials to come! 🙏
I’ve started using the scrubbies - they really work well!
Great! Thanks Joan - I couldn't work without scrubbies - essential tool. 😄
Thrilled to have found your channel and videos .
Thank you for sharing.
( and simplifying things !!!)😀
Look forward to seeing mono-printing video
Nicky
Thank you so much for your lovely comment. I'm so glad you found the video useful. More videos to come. Anything you'd particularly like demystified?
The Pottery Corner Anything you share I think would help beginners ( like me ) through this complicated journey
There is one thing I’m wondering if you would help me with . I’m using a commercial “ dipping “ glaze Which I glaze bowls and mugs with .... I’m wondering could I also use the same glaze to brush onto small surfaces ie small trinket bowls .... ?Thank you
@@matiamou14 - you can brush dipping glazes but not often with good results. The powder tends to split from the water (as it is thinner than brush glaze) and you really need a thickening agent (can't remember the name) to add to make it brushable. My advice - use tongs to dip smaller items. In my studio I used 95% brush on glazes so I can control the thickness and layering etc
Hope that helps!
The Pottery Corner Thank you for your input 🙂
Look forward too new demos x
Hey you should do the crab plate demo. It is beautiful. Thank you🤗
Thanks Marcia. This is monoprinted so same technique as the recent series on monoprinting.
Hello! Just found your videos and are loving them. I'm in NewJersey, USA and its WONDERFUL that we can share all our knowledge, experience and talents to one another "over the pond"! You mentioned in this video that you will go over "monoprinting"...I JUST ABSOLUTELY LOVE the plate you show here and am so very interested in knowing about your monoprinting video. Can you tell me where it is? and if you have posted it on youtube as I cannot find it. Thanks !! Stay Safe Stay Healthy Stay Clay!
Hello Marie. Thanks for your comment. I will do a mono-printing demonstration in another video. I am playing with this medium at present. Keep an eye on Instagram (the.pottery.corner) as I shall post the finished pieces when they are through the kiln.
Another thing you can use for that is the round hair dodad for making a bun in your hair. They look like a scrubby you use for dishes only the hair thing has a hole in the middle. Use it only on completely dry ware
Hey Kathy - thanks for that tip - definitely going to try it. My hair may look a mess without the bum thingy though 😁. Thanks for watching
Nice demo! Have you considered using wet sanding pads for your bisque? I like the foam pads with a diamond sanding side. Reasonably priced, easy to hold onto, and last quite a long while.
Hi Sue. I really shy away from sanding bisque fired work with anything because the dust is carcinogenic. Having survived cancer once, I really don't want to put myself, or my students, at risk even using wet sanding. If you do the finishing at the greenware stage you've saved yourself a job! Thanks for watching 😁
Hi love your videos. If you want you can use wet / dry sand paper on bisk ware. Just wet the paper and no dust. Just a bit of slury to clean off.
Im watching from redford mi. USA.
My mother was from plymouth. And I have relitives in Weymouth
Hi Allen - you can sand bisque but it is a risky business. The dust is carcinogenic and really not good to breathe or have in the studio. Personally I always do the 'sanding' part when still greenware because although you will get some dust it has not been fired and therefore not quite as bad (although you still need a dust filter mask). Thanks for the comment and thanks for watching.
@@thepotterycorner yes i understand about the dust. If you wet sand it there is no dust
I ONLY wet sand my bisque if I need to.