It is so very pleasing and satisfying see clay not being wasted and methodically recycled. High school ceramic classes on the other hand... 😓

@awiltedheart

3 жыл бұрын

In my ceramic's class, my teacher takes all the clay and dump it into a lot of water inside a bag, then hang that bag into a bucket of water to soften everything to make a lot of slip, then it is kneeded by me or the teacher until it's less wet, (we dont have the bats that the creator here does since its expensive, so this method is better for us) ^^ we throw nothing away, since going down the drain is bad for the plumbing, and it can be re-used. (We also mix this slip with semi-hard clay to get it pliable again)

@MissBossy

2 жыл бұрын

Sound like your school is super wasteful. My ceramics teachers recycled the clay at every school I attended.

@kirarussom5780

2 жыл бұрын

My ceramics/pottery teacher had a couple 50 gallon trash drums that we used for reclaiming clay

@parkersurfs3712

2 жыл бұрын

my teacher makes reclaiming clay an assignment

this randomly popped up in my recommened and im so glad it did! it was so interesting and also very relaxing!

@TheSongwritingCat

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, I don't know why I'm here, but I had a nice time.

@ccbaby84

3 жыл бұрын

So soooothing to watch. The wedging process is wild!

@Weeklongwind647

2 жыл бұрын

Ye it got in my recommendations too

@Daddy_Dave_

2 жыл бұрын

I know that’s the same with me I generally enjoyed this video

One of my most vivid memories from high school is pugging clay in my ceramics class, just having my arms covered in clay and having to put my whole body weight into turning the big wheel cause I’m small and I didn’t have good traction on the floor and it was a lot of fun

KZread algorithm strikes again. This is exactly what I wanted and I didn't even know it. I'm in.

My husband saw me watching this and came over, “ look at how neat and meticulous he is! Look at how clean his studio is!” Haha

@raafeekhan1078

3 жыл бұрын

Dw, you start to develop a system tailored to your space, minimal waste & clean up effort in priority

@applepie9806

3 жыл бұрын

@@raafeekhan1078 Its necessary standard practice for pottery studios to stay clean, clay dust is harmful when inhaled and a studio that isn't clean will quickly have a lot of dust as any standing puddles of clay water dries up.

@jadefae

3 жыл бұрын

@@applepie9806 Most people would know that/intuit that. Why must men always feel the need to explain something, *anything* as soon as a woman simply exists in an online space.

@KRSorba

3 жыл бұрын

@@jadefae Because it reminds us of it later. I find I remember things better when I explain them to someone else. Women just happen to be excellent listeners

@jadefae

3 жыл бұрын

@@KRSorba What.. the fuck? "I use woman as a tool for remembering things, despite it being incredibly tiring to have something very basic explained to you, but it's ok because I have a shitty stereotype of them I made up in my head." that's you, that's what you sound like.

We used to do this at school for extra credit- it was my favorite stress reliever

Very professional, concise and wide-ranging. I've been throwing for 3 years and I still found every bit of this helpful. Thank you, Florian.

As someone who bakes, I can't help think of rubber spatula and plastic scrapers.

I've watched this twice today because of how mesmerising it is.

Me: its clay. Yucky clay. My brain: eat Me: no, it would taste horrible and looks like diarrhea My brain: e a t

@thedumbestgenius539

3 жыл бұрын

We shall feast

@buttercupslongnails

3 жыл бұрын

My brain said to lick it🤣

@annabougato9628

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂

@rndmvar

3 жыл бұрын

Pica. Pica. PICA. PICA CHEW!

@theoffbranders8125

3 жыл бұрын

Brain it’s porridge Me no don’t eat bad

As an emerging potter, I salute your efforts sir! It's really incredible to see the techniques that I've grown accustomed to, since I also do primarily gas and wood firings to cone 10, captured on video and explained so succinctly! You're incredibly talented and I sincerely look up to you. Keep up the amazing work, you're a true inspiration to this community!

I am amazed at how precise you are, in saving as much as possible -- whether it is your movements and conservation of energy, or of space, or of materials. I think you are the gold standard we all try to achieve, and even when we fall far short of it, you've made us cleaner, more responsible for the environment, and safer all around just by your example. Thanks!!

Love it! These videos have helped so much! Firstly because of your Instagram, and now with all the help from these videos, I am currently looking at all sorts of ceramics programs including the Clay College and the DCCoI Ceramics Skills and Design Course in Ireland! Thank you Florian!

@floriangadsby

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Samuel! Best of luck with your venture, I hope you're able to find a course that suits you best.

Thanks for posting this! It’s very helpful especially at this moment of my development as a beginner potter. Your instructions are so concise yet complete, much appreciated.

My face lit up and i started clapping with excitment that you finally made a video on spiral wedging!!! im so happy ive been wanting this for a while thank you so much!!!

thank you so much Florian for sharing your process of reclaiming, as always, meticulously done and your narration adds to the highest quality of the video.

super moving to watch your mastery in process! your movements down to your tidying habits make me excited about this craft. Thank you for this video!

Glad to see this channel finally rapidly growing. I knew it was destined for greatness when I saw only a few thousand subs.

Thank you Florian for sharing your process. 😁

wow! such hard work you need to put for reclaiming! Thanks for sharing!

So grateful, thank you for this one Florian !!!

Layering them is a great idea, I would have never thought of that!

So relaxing to watch people making pottery. It reminds me of the pottery classes I have taken....a long time ago. It was so much fun. I Remember in high school we recycled the clay like that. I never learned that wedging technique! So relaxing to watch though. Thank you .

Thank you so much for this video. Watching this took me back to my time in high school when I took 4 years of ceramics as an elective. It was so much fun and I still have my pieces laying around in the garage. I haven't heard a lot of these ceramics terms you mentioned in so long.

i love how at the end he put the bucket back and thus the process cycle

Exceptionally well narrated video. Excellent tips and techniques. Thank you!

Florian, your effort is so efficient and smooth. I have watch several videos on spiral wedging and yours is the most direct and clear to follow. I am very glad I found you channel. Thank you from St. Louis

thanks for the recipe for the plaster bats!!! i love your videos they've taught me a lot and your voice is so calming I can watch your videos all day!

I always wondered how to reclaim the clay. Very interesting, thank you.

Always learning something new from you, I am encouraged by the thousands of hours you put into spiral wedging - it is quite tricky, but I won’t give up!!!:)

This was so enjoyable to watch.

I am very grateful for the bat recipe.

Great content as always !

These methods may be something every pottery artist is doing, but there's still something very precise and charming about the way you explain things that's very different and much more informative compared to most art teachers I've had in 7 years of art school. No vague things like "feel the pencil strokes" or lack of explanations about why something should be done. I feel like if I were your student, you'd be able to give me the exact reason why I'm doing something wrong, and that's incredibly valuable for beginners like me. Thanks for the great videos, hope you make more!

Thanks for a very helpful video

Thank you so much for this video! I got my own wheel for Christmas and I am very adamant about not wasting any clay, so this has been extremely helpful! Happy New Year!

Like others, I am finding your videos and the level of detail so helpful. I would love learn about how you structure your week and manage your time between all the different tasks making, operations, and business. Thank you for considering!

Really interesting and learnt a lot., 😃

@floriangadsby

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and I'm pleased to hear that! 🙌🏼

Excellent. Thanks!

This is so helpful- thank you!!

You are a fabulous teacher!

Thank you so much for the video! hope you get more views and subscribers in the future because your content is always so so good

Incredibly pleasant voice and an interesting topic. Subscribed. 😊

I could watch this for hours!

I started watching your videos in mid-December when I bought a wheel for my mini home studio. This is really timely with a couple of weeks of slurry piled up...!

@RandomPerson-hd6wr

2 жыл бұрын

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This is so interesting to watch! I don't know how this got in my recommended but I'm actually taking my high schools ceramics class right now. ill have to try that wedging method sometime. super clean work! maybe Ill watch a few more of your videos to improve my craft!

thanks for all your videos....

I love your videos so much and I absolute LOVE your work. If you are open to suggestions, I would love a" tool tour" video. If not, thats totally fine, but as a fairly new potter a guide on what to get would be fantastic (besides the fact that all your tools look very efficient and nice- very different from my small setup.)

This feels like some meditation video.. that relaxing ❤️

Outstanding video!

@floriangadsby

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Louise!

This is a great video to watch at 3 am to go to sleep to

I'm a hand builder and slip caster and my reclaim is significantly easier because there aren't as many clay parts to reclaim or as often. I decided I needed to learn wheel work and recently bought a wheel. I have been hesitant to start because of all the bits that go with wheel work and I don't have anyone in the area to show me how to do these things. I am therefore incredibly happy I have found you and other potters on KZread that have taken the time to do these sorts of videos. I am finding your videos incredibly informative and I am now semi confident to start my wheel throwing adventure.

ah yes, forbidden chocolate

Amazing 👏

Amazing

What I see your videos and hear your calming voice I want to change my channel from relaxing videos to tutorials.

I love your work! So beautiful. You should make a video on your firing process.

My high ass saw the thumbnail and thought "oh wow mushroom soup" and then found out this is about pottery. But I'm learning something cool so I stayed.

Thanks for sharing - hoping to help my wife out who is starting out in pottery and creating a large mound of scrap clay! (as well as some actual nice looking pots I must add)

❤️ lovely

Thank you very much

Lindo trabalho 👏👏👏👏👏

One like one hope for the table 😂

Nice vidéo

Watching this makes me thankful that I work in a studio with its own mixer and pug mill. We go through way too much for this.

I hope I meet you some day. I recycle all my clay in buckets, but I use a paddle mixer when I am ready to put it on plaster bats. I do not have a pug mill, so I take my clay off the bats and cut it up and put it in bags. I use the same method to soften clay that has hardened a little. After many years I have spiral wedging down. Still don’t have tapping to center fully. Love your videos.

I love pottery! I’m no artist but I sometimes wish I chose to study pottery.

Such a great video! Thank you so much - I've been watching a few (...i.e. many!...) videos on reclaiming clay recently but appreciated the detail you went into with what exactly you put into your bucket to be recycled. Question: if you throw a piece on the wheel that you instantly realise you don't want to keep, do you let that dry out to bone dry? Or do you re-wedge it pretty quickly, hoping to eliminate the moisture in the wedging process so that you can throw it again sooner? Also - once you've cut wedged that clay, do you wedge it at all again when you come to make your thrown items? Thanks again, wonderfully helpful video and beautiful work!

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Awesome video! Thanks so much for sharing!!! You mentioned you keep your batts elevated off the floor. What do you prop them up on? Speaking of batts, do you make the wooden batts you throw on? Or do you buy those somewhere?

i love ur vids i hope u get 1Mil subs 😊😊😊

that's some good soup 👍

I don´t even want to lear pottery (I want to scult miniatures and small dioramas), but I love these clay recycling videos

Hello, thank you for this video! Could you tell me how thick you make your plaster slabs? Also, do you need to let your slab dry out between reclaim batches? Thank you

Thank you for showing us the process of reclaiming clay. Is there a particular reason why you don't use a pugmill to process reclaimed clay?

@floriangadsby

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Well, a pug mill wasn't a priority compared to all the other pieces of equipment I needed, such as kilns and wheels, fundamentally I could always wedge the clay rather than put it through a pug mill. That being said, this coming year a pug mill might definitely be something I purchase! Time shall tell.

@erinwithryder

3 жыл бұрын

@@floriangadsby Thank you for the reply. I admire how you have a lot of patience with your work!

@originalyou4069

3 жыл бұрын

Pugmills are blimmin expensive too aren't they!! 🤯

*Can you please do a video on how to create the plaster bat?*

I love your thick plaster batts. What is Herculite plaster? I live in the us. What could I substitute? Thank you very much.

Could you do a video one day about the tables/surfaces/shelving etc that you have in your studio.

I made a huge plaster slab from pouring it into a Rubbermaid box. I let it set for 3 weeks before attempting to use it. Right away upon going to use it, I accidentally jammed my finger along it, and it easily left a big scratch. Then wedging on it, I can see bits of plaster getting on the clay. I don't know what I did wrong. I'm going to try putting some yogurt cups (I have lots of them) under it to raise it for air circulation as you raised yours. Thanks for the video and if possible any insight into my plaster chipping. Probably need something that dries harder.

How did you make the plaster bats? Just pour the recipe into a square frame? Did you add any wire reinforcement in the middle? Thanks for all your videos, Florian, as an amateur potter I am learning a lot! ❤️

He seems so nice

Love to play with clay....stay connected

great! Dear florian, can I ask you where can one get and buy the L shaped trimming tool you are using? Thanks !

I'm having a hard time locating herculite plaster in my area. If I'm looking to make sturdier batts with pottery plaster, is densite plaster something that could be added to the recipe?

needed this! my wrists are not a fan of wedging

sources of reclaim: certainly not my bong huehuehue

Its clay Damascus! 😄👍

so since you can resuse all off your access, how often do you actually have to restock on clay? or do you go out and find clay nature and use that?

It's nice you don't have to sieve your raw slip at all! I feel like that's a messy and labor-intensive part of the process

Love this video! Any chance you could do a video showing how you hooked up the wheel so it flows into your bucket? I’ve been wanting a wheel at home and this system would make it more feasible.

@floriangadsby

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Cara! Well, the wheel has this feature by default, it's the Rohde HMT 500, but, if you wanted to, I don't see why you couldn't just cut a hole and add a hose... don't blame me though if it goes wrong 😬

@ccbaby84

3 жыл бұрын

Oh amazing!!! I didn’t know wheels came with that capability! Thank you so much! Love your channel.

@floriangadsby

3 жыл бұрын

@@ccbaby84 haha, thank you! Yeah it’s very useful, I think back in the day many wheels used to have hoses, then it sort of fell out of fashion a bit, but they’re so useful, and if you don’t need to use it you can easily plug the hose up with clay.

I saw few videos from your channel and I have a question: why do you remove wax manually? Could you just place bowl on a wet towel an turn it around to erase the wax? I know that your bowels has complex base, but you could work around that but having thicker towel? Or a sponge with a cut out fixated on table?

Great video! What do you do with larger chunks for recycling?

@floriangadsby

Жыл бұрын

To wedge them or reclaim them? If the lump is too large to wedge I just slice it up into more manageable lumps. For larger pieces going into the reclaim bucket I’ll set them above the heater for a good while so they can thoroughly dry out, then I’ll smash them up with a lump hammer and add the crushed mass to my bucket as per usual.

@michaelblasi1350

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Hey! ❤️

Reclaym!

Thx,

Making a video on collection and preparation of clay.

So you put everything in there? At all stages? Wet, leather hard, bone dry?

@floriangadsby

10 ай бұрын

Everything apart from leather hard clay - unless it's very thin. If you put a big chunk of leather hard clay in water it can take weeks to dissolve, whereas a bone dry lump will dissolve in minutes. So, if I have larger bits of clay I want to recycle I'll dry them out first.

@NathalieNadeau-ChamaneUrbaine

10 ай бұрын

Makes sense! Thanks :-) @@floriangadsby

Could you do a video on how to set a foot on a bowl? We’re doing it in my ceramics class and I’m very confused- If you’ve already done one can you link it? Thank you!!

How do you keep the ribbons of clay from circling back around and getting under your tool when trimming? It lumps up and then really messes my pot up sometimes

i cant seem to find pottery plaster to make a slab what can i use as a table to recycle and wedge my clay on...?