Overview
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Centring the clay on the wheel
- Throwing the ink dip pen
- Covering them to dry overnight
- Trimming the ink dip pen
- Using a specially made chuck to trim the tops of the pens
- Drilling out the hollow for the ferrule
- Close up of drilled hole and ferrule check
- Trimming the top again
- Packing the bisque to fire to 1000ºc
- Unpacking the bisque
- Mixing up a batch of crackle glaze
- Glazing the ink dip pen
- Cleaning up a 'red' pen
- Cleaning up a 'white' pen
- Slotting the pens onto the firing rig
- Packing the gas kiln
- Firing the gas kiln to 1290ºc
- Unpacking the gas kiln
- Preparing the ferrules to fit into the pens
- Finished examples
Taught by
Florian Gadsby