Overview
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Throwing the components for the teapot
- How I 'invert' my callipers for one off pots like this
- Throwing the teapot's lid
- Throwing the teapot's spout 'off the hump'
- Trimming the body & lid
- Attaching the spout
- Handling the teapot
- Carving the handles & quality control
- Bisque firing the teapot to 1000ºC
- Waxing the teapot
- Glazing the teapot
- Cleaning up the glazed surfaces & holes
- Wadding the lid
- Packing the gas kiln & reduction firing to cone ten, 1290ºC
- Unpacking the kiln, removing & grinding the lid
- The finished teapot
- THE POUR TEST
- Clean up
Taught by
Florian Gadsby