Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This step is often like carving or sculpting, it’s the process of refining scruffy edges and ridges of unwanted glaze, working it back to a flush, smooth surface. It’s a vast time sink but something that must be done otherwise the pots themselves appear clunky and smothered in glass once fired.
Of course, some pots are worse than others and therefore require more time, this bowl for instance was glazed in two goes, (first the outside and then the inside), and where the layers overlap, they often create bulges, seams, like that you see me fettling back in this video.
Other pots, such as mugs or smaller bowls, barely need any refinement, save for scrubbing back the tong marks and making sure the foot has been sponged clean. Nonetheless, it’s a process every single vessel I make undergoes and it can’t be skipped and thankfully, very little is actually wasted as everything that’s scraped off can be sieved back into the larger containers of glaze these pots are initially dipped into.
#asmr #satisfying #glaze #pottery #glazing #ceramics
This step is often like carving or sculpting, it’s the process of refining scruffy edges and ridges of unwanted glaze, working it back to a flush, smooth surface. It’s a vast time sink but something that must be done otherwise the pots themselves appear clunky and smothered in glass once fired.
Of course, some pots are worse than others and therefore require more time, this bowl for instance was glazed in two goes, (first the outside and then the inside), and where the layers overlap, they often create bulges, seams, like that you see me fettling back in this video.
Other pots, such as mugs or smaller bowls, barely need any refinement, save for scrubbing back the tong marks and making sure the foot has been sponged clean. Nonetheless, it’s a process every single vessel I make undergoes and it can’t be skipped and thankfully, very little is actually wasted as everything that’s scraped off can be sieved back into the larger containers of glaze these pots are initially dipped into.
#asmr #satisfying #glaze #pottery #glazing #ceramics
