Uploaded January 2019 | Updated September 2026, 24 minutes ago
A quick discussion on how to make ceramic bottles that accept a standard swing top bottle top.
These swing top caps are often used on beer bottles and sold to home brewers. As I hope you will see, they also work great for potters. There are countless ways to use a bottle with a flip top lid.
The trick is all about precisely accounting for the shrink rate of your clay. Testing your pieces with repeatable measurements is the way to do this.
Fair warning: I do offer up the final version of my gauge for sale:
justinsmakery.com/shop-online/?category=Tools
I hope you enjoy. Please like, subscribe, and comment.
A quick discussion on how to make ceramic bottles that accept a standard swing top bottle top.
These swing top caps are often used on beer bottles and sold to home brewers. As I hope you will see, they also work great for potters. There are countless ways to use a bottle with a flip top lid.
The trick is all about precisely accounting for the shrink rate of your clay. Testing your pieces with repeatable measurements is the way to do this.
Fair warning: I do offer up the final version of my gauge for sale:
justinsmakery.com/shop-online/?category=Tools
I hope you enjoy. Please like, subscribe, and comment.
