How I make ceramic plates | The entire pottery process

hello everybody today I'm showing you how I make my ceramic plates I've experimented with so many different plate Styles ranging from handbuilt to wheel thrown and after so many different variations I have finally settled on this design that I'm showing you today as always I start off by measuring out my clay I use 4 lbs of clay for my 10in dinner plates and I used 2 and 1/4 lbs of clay for my 8 in breakfast SL side plates since this clay is straight out of the back I just give it a little wedge to make it a little more workable and to help Pat it into a ball shape I always always always throw my plates on bats I never throw them straight on the wheel because throwing them on bats is one of the crucial steps so that my plates don't workp so I'm going to be throwing the dinner plate right now I'm centering my clay and coing it up and down to give it a little extra wedge and align the clay particles after coning the clay I start to flatten out my clay into a plate shape I do not open up the clay when making my plates instead I use the side of my palm to slowly push the clay out into the width that I want and while I'm doing that I let go of the pressure a tiny bit once I get get about say an inch from The Edge that way I leave a little extra clay to be able to pull out the rim I'm making my plates with a very flat Sleek profile so I'm not doing a very exaggerated rim after I pull out my rim I'm using my brass kidney rib to flatten out the base and compress it after using the rib to compress and get off most of the slip I do a final smooth over with my mud tools orange sponge a very crucial step to making my plates is wiring my plate off the bat directly after throwing I hold the wire as tight as I can and slide it right under the plate so after wiring under the plate I let it dry on the bat until it's leather hard it's usually about a day or so until I can trim so after about a day or so I can take the plate off the bat I will only remove it if it very easily pops right off the plate should not be sticking and not be bending at all if it is then I leave it to dry longer trim using the wheel suction method so I just wet the wheel with a little bit of water and stick the plate onto the wheel while throwing I left a good amount of clay at the base to be able to trim a nice foot so I usually just go across the base once before starting the trim the foot so I can even out any lumps and bumps and unevenness I use my ruler to Mark out where my foot is going to be and I also started adding a little circle of clay to the middle to be able to put my maker Mark while also glazing the bottom at the same time triming is absolutely one of my favorite steps in Pottery as you can see it's so satisfying and it's really nice to get that refined shape and those little details that you definitely can't get with just throwing Shing gets rid of all the unnecessary weight also so that way your pieces are lighter which is better to hold and a lot better on the cost of shipping so I will just let you guys enjoy the rest of this super satisfying trimming process [Music] so once I trim my play I smooth it all down with a thin stainless steel rib I like to smooth out my pieces as much as possible because I don't want any type of weird texture to show through the glaze then I finish the smoothing off with my mud tools orange sponge to get anywhere that my rib couldn't [Music] reach of course I have to add my maker Mark to that little circle that I kept when trimming so I set my PL on a super flat table to dry and I smooth out the rim with my mud tool smoothing sponge because it does get a little messed up while trimming so it's been a few weeks and everything has been bone dry for quite a while and now it's finally time to bisque fire I bisf fire all my pieces to cone4 and I stack my plates in the Kiln to where their foot rings are lining up on top of each other that way it avoids any warping or cracking when firing so after the bis fire I give all my pieces a little rinse to get rid of any dust and debris and any little clay flexs that are stuck to it the bisare only has to dry for a couple of hours when the weather's nice nice and warm so after the bis square has dried I now apply my wax resist to the little circle where my maker Mark is and to the bottom of the foot ring I love using wax resist because it makes the glaze clean up a lot easier and it's also quite satisfying to see it just trickle off while you're dipping your glaze so after I wax the bisquare I let that dry for a whole day before glazing so it's the next day and it's time to glaze and I've decided to glaze this set of plates in my homemade satin yellow glaze I've been working on a lot of new glaze colors and this is one of my many new glaze colors that I've developed over the past few months so after glazing I wait another whole day to smooth out the glaze surface this allows the glaze to dry out completely into a really nice powdery consistency which makes it really easy for me to smooth out the tong marks and clean up any drips after I smooth out the plate I just sponge off any extra glaze that's stuck to the foot ring or the maker Mark and now it's time to load up the glaze Kiln I fire all my plates to Cone s with my own custom glaze schedule and 24 hours later we have my finished plates in my new Buttercup glaze however these plates are not done just yet I always give my plates a good sanding as the final step I'm super careful not to scratch my glaze because these Sanders are actually Diamond Sanders so they are very capable of scratching up your glaze if you let it touch it so I just very carefully sand along the foot ring and the Maker's Mark with 120 grit and then 240 grit sanding it with these Diamond Sanders gives it a really nice smooth surface that will not scratch your tabletops or shelving and there we go here we have the finished plates in my brand new Buttercup glaze these plates along with pasta bowls and soup bowls will be available as made to order items on Hannah ceramic. that way you can customize your own entire table wear set in any of the seven colors I have available I really hope you guys enjoyed seeing the process of how I create these plates and I will have many new videos to come soon I hope you guys enjoyed it and I will see you guys all in my next one one

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Length: 10min 30sec (630 seconds)

Published: Wed May 08 2024