Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This week, I'm throwing, trimming and assembling a teapot with a few new features. It's always an intimidating task putting one of these together if you haven't in a while, and these were amongst the first I've made in an entire year! Thankfully, during that time off, I'm been living around teapots in my workshop that I previously made and were unsure of... The spouts were a touch too large and the positioning of them too was slightly off. I've been ruminating on how correcting these errors when I next make teapots and I'm so glad to have finally found a moment to construct a new batch.
I also take you through my sketching process, how I draw out rough ideas, filling pages with proportionally different vessels before settling one a few specific shapes that's I like. I find this method of quickly 'seeing' various shapes superior to doing all of my concept work on the wheel as truth be told, it's much faster filling a page or two like this as compared to throwing all the components needed and assembling them.
Thanks so much for taking your time to watch! I hope you enjoy the video.
How to cone clay: youtu.be/69dMLpXosSk
The spinner tools I use: youtu.be/fBK31iuMOHw
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šŗ ā¢ You may also be interested in my 'A Beginner's Guide' series, which you can find here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2WJhtTF0eGhQwf8g2LHcom_KrvJpH_JT
Timecodes:
0:00 - Introduction & drawing
2:00 - Weighing out the clay for the different parts
2:16 - Throwing the body
5:57 - Throwing the lid
7:32 - Throwing the spout
11:11 - How I dry the parts overnight...
11:55 - Trimming the body & lid
17:18 - Attaching the spout
22:03 - Attaching the handle
26:48 - Final quality control
27:34 - The finished teapot, for now.
28:30 - Clean up
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This week, I'm throwing, trimming and assembling a teapot with a few new features. It's always an intimidating task putting one of these together if you haven't in a while, and these were amongst the first I've made in an entire year! Thankfully, during that time off, I'm been living around teapots in my workshop that I previously made and were unsure of... The spouts were a touch too large and the positioning of them too was slightly off. I've been ruminating on how correcting these errors when I next make teapots and I'm so glad to have finally found a moment to construct a new batch.
I also take you through my sketching process, how I draw out rough ideas, filling pages with proportionally different vessels before settling one a few specific shapes that's I like. I find this method of quickly 'seeing' various shapes superior to doing all of my concept work on the wheel as truth be told, it's much faster filling a page or two like this as compared to throwing all the components needed and assembling them.
Thanks so much for taking your time to watch! I hope you enjoy the video.
How to cone clay: youtu.be/69dMLpXosSk
The spinner tools I use: youtu.be/fBK31iuMOHw
š ā¢ ORDER MY BOOK: geni.us/bymyhands
šŗ ā¢ You may also be interested in my 'A Beginner's Guide' series, which you can find here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2WJhtTF0eGhQwf8g2LHcom_KrvJpH_JT
Timecodes:
0:00 - Introduction & drawing
2:00 - Weighing out the clay for the different parts
2:16 - Throwing the body
5:57 - Throwing the lid
7:32 - Throwing the spout
11:11 - How I dry the parts overnight...
11:55 - Trimming the body & lid
17:18 - Attaching the spout
22:03 - Attaching the handle
26:48 - Final quality control
27:34 - The finished teapot, for now.
28:30 - Clean up
ā¢
Find out much more via the link below!
https://linktr.ee/floriangadsby
ā¢
Get in touch here: floriangadsby.com/contact
Sign up to my newsletter here: floriangadsby.com/newsletter
