Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Miniature pots are this week's project. Tiny vessels, jars, bowls and vases, to eventually use in tandem with larger collections of vessels, or as pieces to top the towers of pots I often create and exhibit.
This week, I'm taking you through the delicate throwing process and the even more time-consuming and troublesome trimming. It really is difficult, as the pots are essentially trying to end themselves constantly by coming loose and throwing themselves off the wheel-head.
Thus, in order to make these, you need to work with extreme care, turning the leather hard clay quickly, carefully and with an extraordinary amount of control. In many ways it's much more difficult to make pots on this scale as compared to pots that are normal sizes, but it's a good test of one's ability and annoyingly, they make WONDERFUL kiln fillers, which I wish they didn't, as it gives me a good reason to sit and throw hundreds of the damned things.
Thanks for watching!
š ā¢ ORDER MY BOOK: geni.us/bymyhands
šŗ ā¢ If you want to learn how to throw a pot, you might like my 'A Beginner's Guide' series: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2WJhtTF0eGhQwf8g2LHcom_KrvJpH_JT
š¢ ā¢ Find out much more about my work here: https://linktr.ee/floriangadsby
ā± ā¢ Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
1:49 - Setting up the wheel
2:15 - Throwing three tiny bowls
6:23 - Throwing two angular vases
8:07 - Throwing two lidded jars & lids
9:54 - How I dry these pots out safely
10:42 - Trimming the bowls
15:30 - Trimming the angular vases
17:20 - Trimming the lidded jars
20:49 - Talking about making small pots
22:08 - Clean up
*I throw using both a Rohde HMT 500 & 600 potter's wheel and fire using Rohde kilns too, the electric is a TE-200 and the gas kiln is a KG-340.
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Instagram ā instagram.com/floriangadsby
TikTok ā tiktok.com/@floriangadsby
Website ā floriangadsby.com
Miniature pots are this week's project. Tiny vessels, jars, bowls and vases, to eventually use in tandem with larger collections of vessels, or as pieces to top the towers of pots I often create and exhibit.
This week, I'm taking you through the delicate throwing process and the even more time-consuming and troublesome trimming. It really is difficult, as the pots are essentially trying to end themselves constantly by coming loose and throwing themselves off the wheel-head.
Thus, in order to make these, you need to work with extreme care, turning the leather hard clay quickly, carefully and with an extraordinary amount of control. In many ways it's much more difficult to make pots on this scale as compared to pots that are normal sizes, but it's a good test of one's ability and annoyingly, they make WONDERFUL kiln fillers, which I wish they didn't, as it gives me a good reason to sit and throw hundreds of the damned things.
Thanks for watching!
š ā¢ ORDER MY BOOK: geni.us/bymyhands
šŗ ā¢ If you want to learn how to throw a pot, you might like my 'A Beginner's Guide' series: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2WJhtTF0eGhQwf8g2LHcom_KrvJpH_JT
š¢ ā¢ Find out much more about my work here: https://linktr.ee/floriangadsby
ā± ā¢ Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
1:49 - Setting up the wheel
2:15 - Throwing three tiny bowls
6:23 - Throwing two angular vases
8:07 - Throwing two lidded jars & lids
9:54 - How I dry these pots out safely
10:42 - Trimming the bowls
15:30 - Trimming the angular vases
17:20 - Trimming the lidded jars
20:49 - Talking about making small pots
22:08 - Clean up
*I throw using both a Rohde HMT 500 & 600 potter's wheel and fire using Rohde kilns too, the electric is a TE-200 and the gas kiln is a KG-340.
____
Instagram ā instagram.com/floriangadsby
TikTok ā tiktok.com/@floriangadsby
Website ā floriangadsby.com
