How I recycle my clay with Simon Leach

August 8th, 2022
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Пікірлер: 27

  • @scottclay4253
    @scottclay4253 Жыл бұрын

    I always enjoy your posts. Thank you, Simon.

  • @xenophile620
    @xenophile6209 ай бұрын

    Enjoy your vids. I recently found you from some old vids you did where you converted an old electric kiln to gas. I'm doing the same. I found someone getting rid of a bunch of pottery stuff. Good score for a newbie like me.

  • @wreynnwood4097
    @wreynnwood4097 Жыл бұрын

    Thankyou! Helps for me to see not just read.

  • @Lannie1948
    @Lannie1948 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks but shouldn’t you wear a mask with all the clay dust swirling around?

  • @55camille

    @55camille

    Жыл бұрын

    My thoughts also

  • @Jason-lk7kr
    @Jason-lk7kr Жыл бұрын

    Looking forward to a new shirt!

  • @anitashearman4725
    @anitashearman4725 Жыл бұрын

    Great to recycle clay!!! And, I love my Leach wheel!! I stopped using my electric wheel, now it’s kick wheel all the way!! Great way to control speed, much more enjoyable making pots and such!!!

  • @lauramorrow3562
    @lauramorrow3562 Жыл бұрын

    Simon, I suggest your videos to all my students. Great video! love the T shirt .

  • @68glp
    @68glp Жыл бұрын

    Love this - thank you for showing all of the little things you do -

  • @ptonpc
    @ptonpc Жыл бұрын

    Fascinating.

  • @knightclan4
    @knightclan4 Жыл бұрын

    You are making sense. Clay is made of different size particles. Slip is the finest of the particles

  • @knightclan4
    @knightclan4 Жыл бұрын

    Great video

  • @eddiespottery8439
    @eddiespottery8439 Жыл бұрын

    Nice job Simon. I have always did my clay the same way, but I use a power mixer on you drill to speed up the process. I know you talker about doing a work shop in Texas before to long. I hope you will take some videos when you are there. eddie.

  • @kevinh5024
    @kevinh5024 Жыл бұрын

    Nice video Simon.

  • @clayartideas
    @clayartideas Жыл бұрын

    Beautiful ❤.

  • @BrenzerM
    @BrenzerM Жыл бұрын

    Thanks Simon

  • @larrylass4268
    @larrylass4268 Жыл бұрын

    Love your videos. I used this method to recycle clay as a beginning potter. Purchased a Peter Pugger mixing/pug mill to make my own throwing clay from dry material. I now directly use what would have been recycled to directly make fresh throwing clay. Best investment in the studio given shipping costs of bag clay because I am not shipping wet clay.

  • @katekaniff5987
    @katekaniff5987 Жыл бұрын

    ✨Clay IS the way💫 back on The Wheel today… A few GP bowls for a fundraiser … Yee HAW! Thanks Simon!

  • @user-hx4jz1td5w
    @user-hx4jz1td5w Жыл бұрын

    Я восхищаюсь Вами!!! Ваши работы - прекрасны!!!!

  • @deerhearted
    @deerhearted Жыл бұрын

    I let my throwing water settle, pour off the water to reuse again and reclaim all the settled clay... Often times I find my reclaimed clay is too soft because I don't typically have much dry groggy stuff to add back in but I don't think that can be helped much other than to mix in some fresh clay when I wedge it. Keeping a smaller reclaim bucket forces me to do smaller batches more often, making it less of whole ordeal. I am still working on it. I just hate waste.

  • @suzannefurman3957

    @suzannefurman3957

    Жыл бұрын

    I had tables whose whole surface was a giant bat. Once the soggy clay was on the surface evenly about 4 inches thick would cover with plaster bars til the consistency I needed. Wedge and line a plastic trash can on bottom with vinegar soaked rag and repeat til full. Vinegar grows mycillium. A stringy white substance. Makes the clay plastic

  • @Lannie1948
    @Lannie1948 Жыл бұрын

    Simon, I made a plaster bat in a large plastic bin using potters plaster but when I tried to dry out the clay bits of the plaster are getting into the clay. I left the plaster to dry for quite a while. Did I use the wrong ratio of water to plaster? Thanks

  • @suzannerouleau6127
    @suzannerouleau6127 Жыл бұрын

    Could you give the next vidéo which complète this one?

  • @refugiopoint
    @refugiopoint4 ай бұрын

    That's cool.......I'd think a mask would be important to cut down on the silica exposure, gotta keep this stud around as long as we can.

  • @helentaylor9062
    @helentaylor9062 Жыл бұрын

    If I lived in the US I’d buy you a new watering can 😀

  • @kevinleong4467
    @kevinleong4467 Жыл бұрын

    How do you dry it out after slaking it down?

  • @suzannefurman3957
    @suzannefurman3957 Жыл бұрын

    It helps grow mycillium. And that makes the clay plastic.