For those who sometimes ask me what kind of tape I use, it’s 1/8 inch “whiteboard tape” which you can get online in various places. Another good alternative is auto striping tape.

Hello,

I've actually been throwing for a while now, but one thing I find very challenging is getting myself to throw thinner and thinner. The other day I saw a post where someone's cross-section was extremely thin, and I was inspired to try it out myself. But no matter how hard I think I push, it's still quite thick when I cut it open.

For those who are very experienced, very good, and have been doing this for many, many years: any tips for getting myself to throw super thin and even? Is it just putting in the time to practice, or what do you do to intentionally help your practice?

The first funnel I made was thrown. I haven’t had thrown a wide mouth funnel and a really long time. I’m planning on making some again soon.

I had switched to a slab built piece, that I am showing here. If you’re a person who likes to make things in store them in mason jars, or use mason jars for dry storage, these are really great project.

I’ve always had trouble photographing them, but today this bowl was sitting right where I was working, and I used it to hold the piece up.

Today I made a husk cherry chutney. The last photo is from the past, when I was making lemon curd over the winter.

Glazed and satin white on Laguna Death Valley clay fire fired cone 10

One of my first items fired in my new kiln 🥹

• kentucky mudworks roo clay fired to cone 6
• painted with a variety of underglazes on greenware
• glazed with amaco hf9 clear
• ocean glaze is amaco 4x lagoon celadon, 2x textured turquoise, and thick blobs of snow
• sunset glaze is a sponged gradient of amaco mulberry, marigold, and snapdragon diluted with mixing clear

The external concrete doorstep of my house was badly damaged by workmen, it has been repaired but it looks awful now. I want to make the concrete doorstep pretty and functional but don’t know what glaze (or glaze/clay combo) is best for non-slippy tiles. My house is in a coastal village in North East Scotland, so winter is very wet and often below 0°c (yay 😒).

I usually make hand built terracotta garden pots, stoneware pots or weird sculptures, I have made small tiles successfully before and used them to tile a sink splash back, but it doesn’t freeze in my bathroom (thankfully) so my knowledge ends there.

I cannot find the answer on Google, all the Google information is for people who have been cursed with slippy tiles and want to un-slip them - which is an option for me but I’m sure there has to be a technique to making them non slip to begin with?

Any and all advice is appreciated - or links to where I can learn about making outdoor tiles for adverse living conditions (lols, I’m just bitter that I’ve had to put the heating on 🙂).

UK friends - be very careful what contractors you let do work to your home on a Warmer Homes type government scheme. Making right the damage they’ve done fitting 2 doors has cost me £900 so far.

Beginner here (first timer) and man you are making beautiful stuff! Yesterday, I unloaded the kiln and was surprised by the cool colours! However, the glaze did not seen to fuse everywhere to the pots. I fired as 1040 degrees (glaze is rated at 1020-1100) and brushed on two coats of glaze before. Any room for improvement here?

These are both gifts - the osprey mug depicts a scene with special meaning, and the belted kingfisher is the recipient's favorite bird. It is driving me up the wall that I accidentally dripped a tiny bit of the liner glaze on the kingfisher's face but I'm trying to accept the imperfection. Constructive criticism always appreciated!

Do we call them ribbons??

Hand built from extremely thin porcelain (Kentucky mudworks Kota), decorated with some underglaze pencil lines and thin washes of cobalt. Glaze fired upside down because otherwise they would have slumped into little puddles. Random placement of wadding around the rim created some surprising geometry! Next time I’ll try to be more intentional about that part and maybe the shapes will be nicer…

Featuring a cameo appearance by Acorn, who maybe was thinking I would be putting cat food in one of them. (Sorry, Acorn, they are for tea)

Made with 5 layers of Oxblood and a glaze call Duna from a supplier here in Brazil on the inside.

Could have put another layer of oxblood tbh, would have more red on it, but the result is pleassnt.

I've been working up the courage to start advertising and selling my work, just not sure how much to charge for it. Still not too sure how much I could charge for it.

I haven't finished sculpting this piece, but I'm already wondering how to pull out the glazing I have in mind. I would like to do a red iron oxide wash on the octopus, with no glaze, and glaze the vase itself with Botz Blue Effect. With how small some of the spaces are between the octopus's arms though, I have no idea how to keep the glaze from getting on the octopus or the oxide from getting on the vase.

I guess the best way would be bisque firing -> oxide wash -> firing again-> vinyl resist on the octopus and glazing -> glaze firing, but I'd prefer to avoid firing 3 times if I can. Does anyone have any tips? I have shellac and vinyl at home, if it helps.

I'm investigating how Mayco SW-178 (Fools Gold) and SW-228 (Beetlewing) layer together. I'd love the freedom to reduction fire but alas, I only have oxidation available to me, and the provided samples tiles are in reduction at cone 10. I'm pretty amateur at pottery but my end goal is to find some easy-access (to Australia) combos of brown and green...

Has anyone had any experiences in firing either of these glazes to cone 10 oxidation?

Spent 5-6 hours making these yesterday in one sitting because I wanted to practice trimming. Took inspiration from how Florian Gadsby does his trimming. If you haven’t heard of him, do yourself a favor and go to his YouTube channel. The first 3 bowls are made with WSO clay and the last one was made with Bmix. Lmk if you think there is anything else I could do to perfect “the bowl.”

My partner's birthday is coming up and she has been really gotten into pottery lately. She goes to a studio that provides all of the essentials. I would like to buy a high quality tool or set of tools. Ideally it would be a buy it for life kind of thing and something she would use often.

Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Budget is up to a few hundred dollars.

I am keeping the green and yellow one for myself ✨ Still not 100% there on all combos, but I'm leaning a lot! The neutral one also makes me happy.

Mix of Botz/Terracolor/Colorobbia/Amaco glazes, with botz plus in some spots and clear on top of everything!

Hi all. My wife turns 50 next year and she is very difficult to buy for!

However, in the car yesterday there was someone on the radio talking about pottery and suddenly my wife lit up, effusing about how she used to adore doing pottery when she was a teenager at college and how she would love to get back into it.

It wasn't a hint, her 50th isn't until next July! She doesn't spend a penny on herself, everything goes towards our kids but I'd like to treat her for her 'big' birthday but have no idea where to begin.

I have been stashing a bit of money away each month for the past year in the hope of taking her away for a few days, but I think she'd enjoy the pottery gift more. Could someone advise? I assume wheel, clay and kiln but what else? TIA.

I’m consistently unhappy with my handles. I often get tiny cracks - see next to the otter’s feet - even when I wrap them, make sure the clay body is a similar dryness to the handle, I slip and score and spend absolutely ages attaching them. I’ve had some success adding more clay when attaching but it creates a bulky shape and takes absolutely ages. I’ve never had one break off and it doesn’t seem structurally to be an issue, I subject them to heavy home use to test, but I’m gently working to getting towards a point where I can sell and right now I feel it’s really letting my mugs down - and also it takes ages and that’s not sustainable for selling either.

TL;DR if you’re really pleased with your handle shapes and the results, what’s your process please? 🙏🏻

Hi all,

I've been throwing on the wheel every day for about a month. I'm getting better, but of course some of my crafts still fail and I end up re-wedging the clay. I usually do the following:

crumple it up, let it dry for a day, wedge it for a few minutes and cover it again. Let sit for another day to even out.

Then I take it out and wedge again for a few minutes before using. However, I'm getting loads of bubbles. I'm using small movements I think, and I've tried cutting it in half to look. I use ram's head method. Any tips?