Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This video shows the journey of creating the new style of bowl that’ll be replacing my old medium and small variants. There are some pots within my range that I produce many hundreds of, mainly, as it makes it easier to craft in bulk and sell via my online shop without having to photograph each vessel individually. Thus, these shapes tend to stay the same over a couple of years, changing subtly within that time perhaps, yet there’s been three notable changes since 2019.
They’ve gone from being fully curved, with a short foot and a very simple shape, to a somewhat angular form, that better matched the best of the pottery I was creating, to this, a much more angular shape that’s shallower and has an indented rim. The aim with these changes is to make a pot that’s more in line with the rest of my aesthetic, yet I’m also chasing a certain level of individuality as of course, I want the pots to feel ‘somewhat’ unique.
In this instance, that’s done by having a shape that has both a curved interior and an angular exterior. In means I’m marrying two ideals together in a way that’s relatively complex to make and it’s pushed me to trim my ceramics in a way that’s really very unconventional.
Anyhow, in my video I discuss the entire process of their creation and ultimately, I’ve ended up with a group of pots I’m really chuffed with. They’re interesting and marginally unique, yet they are a little bit of a faff to create. I cover the throwing, the trimming, waxing, glazing and finally the reduction firing to cone ten.
Thanks for watching and DO let me know what you think.
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🏺 • 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 & a brief history
2:30 - Throwing the new bowl shape
6:13 - How I measure the feet so they're all identical
11:50 - Using a mirror to trim
15:30 - Loading the electric kiln for a biscuit firing to 1000ºC
16:55 - Waxing the feet of the bowls
18:11 - Glazing the bowls
20:57 - Cleaning up the glazes surfaces
23:50 - Loading the gas kiln for a reduction firing to 1290ºC
25:51 - Unpacking the kiln
26:53 - Polishing the bowls bases
27:45 - The finished bowls
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This video shows the journey of creating the new style of bowl that’ll be replacing my old medium and small variants. There are some pots within my range that I produce many hundreds of, mainly, as it makes it easier to craft in bulk and sell via my online shop without having to photograph each vessel individually. Thus, these shapes tend to stay the same over a couple of years, changing subtly within that time perhaps, yet there’s been three notable changes since 2019.
They’ve gone from being fully curved, with a short foot and a very simple shape, to a somewhat angular form, that better matched the best of the pottery I was creating, to this, a much more angular shape that’s shallower and has an indented rim. The aim with these changes is to make a pot that’s more in line with the rest of my aesthetic, yet I’m also chasing a certain level of individuality as of course, I want the pots to feel ‘somewhat’ unique.
In this instance, that’s done by having a shape that has both a curved interior and an angular exterior. In means I’m marrying two ideals together in a way that’s relatively complex to make and it’s pushed me to trim my ceramics in a way that’s really very unconventional.
Anyhow, in my video I discuss the entire process of their creation and ultimately, I’ve ended up with a group of pots I’m really chuffed with. They’re interesting and marginally unique, yet they are a little bit of a faff to create. I cover the throwing, the trimming, waxing, glazing and finally the reduction firing to cone ten.
Thanks for watching and DO let me know what you think.
📖 • ORDER MY BOOK: geni.us/bymyhands
🏺 • 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 & a brief history
2:30 - Throwing the new bowl shape
6:13 - How I measure the feet so they're all identical
11:50 - Using a mirror to trim
15:30 - Loading the electric kiln for a biscuit firing to 1000ºC
16:55 - Waxing the feet of the bowls
18:11 - Glazing the bowls
20:57 - Cleaning up the glazes surfaces
23:50 - Loading the gas kiln for a reduction firing to 1290ºC
25:51 - Unpacking the kiln
26:53 - Polishing the bowls bases
27:45 - The finished bowls
•
Find out much more via the link below!
https://linktr.ee/floriangadsby
•
Get in touch here: floriangadsby.com/contact
Sign up to my newsletter here: floriangadsby.com/newsletter
