These are so splendid! I’m still amazed by the consistent shapes you’re able to achieve across the board. And of course, the glaze is always a beautiful sight to behold 😃

The balance and controlled strength of a potters hands, and then you teaching us how you go about your craft. Well, it’s just heavenly with my coffee today.

@SouthFloridaSunshine

8 ай бұрын

Even the way you pack a kiln is lovely, I had a bit too much ADHD to be a lovely potter as yourself, but I still miss it. Wondering how you protect your lungs? It was one reason I had to part with my wheel and was unable to continue with throwing. 😢

@ragnkja

8 ай бұрын

@@SouthFloridaSunshine I assume he uses a dust mask for all dusty tasks, and generally takes care to minimise the amount of clay- and glaze-dust in the studio.

I've become a much better potter since watching your videos. A few months ago i was terrified of making jars/lidded objects. Since watching your numerous videos with jars i've become so much better at it and have been able to make a jar successfully each time with a proper fitting lid. Thank you for your consistency in high quality content

Happy Sunday guys! Just a little note here-to link you to this bonus video I posted yesterday: kzread.info/dash/bejne/d2xqua6KiKfcfJc.html It's a collaboration with TOAST, and in the description you can find information about a competition we're running to WIN one of my pots, together with a £500 TOAST voucher. I rarely do prize draws or collaborations like this but Toast are a brand I dearly love and many of their ethics resound with me. Please watch and like the video if you haven't, it's a bit different from the usual things you'll see from me. Here's a direct link to the competition if that's easier: www.toa.st/pages/florian-gadsby-prize-draw

@emilybradford1870

7 ай бұрын

Go you ever just have a bad throwing day? When things just seem to not want to go right? Or is that just me? 😅😂

Im endlessly fascinated by your work. One of these days once i can justify it financially I'd like to finally buy a wheel. I know it'll never be more than a hobby for me but you are a true artist and craftsman and i have great respect for your skill and patience

Florian! The iron oxide is a flux, thus lowering the melting point of the final glaze and smoothing over surfaces better :) this also explains why it’s runny in high amounts. I think your black glaze may work if you balanced the flux with more refractory materials like silica, alumina, or zirconia. I’d love to see a video of you trying different amounts of refractory materials and testing the glaze with increasing amounts of iron oxide. The tiles or cups for testing are great kiln fillers too!

@floriangadsby

8 ай бұрын

I meant at the glazing stage - the added red iron oxide, before it has even been fired, makes a difference to how the freshly glazed surface settles - if it already acts like a flux before being fired then that's new to me!

@mileswhiting8212

7 ай бұрын

@@floriangadsby ah this makes more sense now. Still curious how your glazes would look with high amounts of iron oxide

@alexforget

7 ай бұрын

@@floriangadsby iron oxide is polar (think like tiny magnets) so it help keep the clay particule in event suspension in the water. You can have a similar effect with a bit of bentonite

@emmemcginnis135

Ай бұрын

So much chemistry I don’t understand 😌

@monicaklopfleisch3810

18 күн бұрын

I’d love a video on the science behind glazing!!

Florian that took amazing dedication and discipline. I too listen to audiobooks whilst potting, but still get bored after making three things the same. Waxing the bottoms of 100 identical pots? Mind numbing. Well done on the sale. What I learned was the need to take more care over dressing the dried glaze surface - I had always believed it all just flowed together when molten. So thanks for that tip. Your videos, (together with Joe Thompson’s), have taught me so much over the years, enabling me finally to produce pots that people actually want. So thank you too for the effort you put into practical explanation. Obviously your videos are critical to your business, but they would perform that just as well without the detailed exposition I really appreciate.

Those are cute little vases. The lightest one would look nice holding all the lego flowers I seem to be collecting.

I'm a big fan of the start to finish videos. Love to see something being made from material to final piece

Always riveting. This one was really story-like...plot, characters, drama. Such a joy to see your work with its accompanying flawless narration. One of the respondents here described it as 'a gift.' It certainly is.

The jingling of the pots when you open the door is one of my favourite sounds. A moment I always await eagerly in your videos.

أتابع قناتك منذ بضعة أيام فقط.. أعمالك غاية في الروعة من حيث التصميم واللون ... بالتوفيق والنجاح.

as always - no room for error (human) nor criticism....No doubt the exhibition will be a sensation, bravo!

Hello Florian, I managed to buy one of these pots at your private view at YSP. It's lovely to watch you make them. It was a special evening celebrating you and your success. It is very refreshing to see a potter who makes mainly functional ware have a solo show in an exhibition space for the arts.

Thanks for yet another great video! I'm always very intrigued by your sketches mentioned in the beginning of this video. Would you consider making a video focusing on sketching & design and how this transfers into a finished piece?

not only was this super interesting and educational but Florian's voice is calming and relaxing to listen, thank you

Just checked out YSP shop on your website -- congrats on your success! Eight hours after this video and you're almost entirely sold out, except for one drawing and one set of vases. That must be an incredible feeling!

You may insist these are vases, but I see 100 elegant little teacups.

This is amazing. Thank you for taking to time to document so beautifully and in such detail.

Beauty!

Can’t wait to hold mine in my hands! Beautiful work as always.🔥

they look so good all together!

Your videos are so pleasant to watch. Very informative as well.

Wheew! That was a lot of work. Great success for your Exhibition.

@floriangadsby

8 ай бұрын

Thank you Mike! 🙌🏻

Amazingly beautiful and effective disk fired😂. Really a pleasure like perfect tetris.

I’ve been trying to buy a bowl set for months but you sell out so fast!! Incredible work ✨💚

You mentioned that the glazes higher in iron oxide seem to settle more neatly and were wondering why. So, I started reading up on how iron oxide affects glazes, and evidently the more iron oxide that's in a glaze, the more it de-flocculates. It seems that the iron oxide gives the clay an electrical charge which then forces the iron particles in the oxide to settle in a more uniformed pattern. It was quite a fascinating read!

@Chloe-zr9lk

7 ай бұрын

How neat. where did you read this? I would like to read more :)

Phenomenal

Would you mind explaining how to successfully throw a bowl or vase with a wide rim as horizontal as possible? Whenever I try, it either has to be too upwards or it collapses and I cant think of any good solutions other than trimming a thick bulge away under the rim. Ps. Your videos have taught me everything. I went from making a 4 inch x 4.5 inch vase out of 5 pounds of clay to making a 5.5 inch x 9 inch ramen bowl with the same weight. Its honestly amazing how much I improve after every video.

Love your work. Wish I could afford a pot.

using the white glaze and adding drips of iron sounds like a really cool idea

Excellent work. Do not drop them. Repetition is good for the brain❤

I would like to visit you in future trips❤

Are these smaller simulacra of vases or other pieces, a style you want to pursue for the time being? They are lovely, as are your other works. All the best for your exhibition.

Beautifully done florian. I love your glazes too. Could you maybe give me the recipe for it?

Tekniknya sangat bagus menggunakan bahan yang berkualitas terbaik dengan adanya' vedio ini jadi tambah pengetahuan

It's sundaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

Iron oxide is polar, it help to make clay particules suspend in water, you can add bentonite 1-3% to to get a similar effect without changing the color. That's why if you get to 10-15% iron oxide the glaze become very think, to the point of being very hard to use without defloculant (darvan)

@floriangadsby

7 ай бұрын

Ah! I see! I've experimented with bentonite before with this recipe, adding 2%, and the whole bucket feels like fudge and doesn't apply in thick enough layers, despite it going on thickly? If that makes sense?! I must try a lower percentage.

Dang 5 hours and they're already all sold out! I guess I was too slow. 😢

These could be used as chawan hybrid tea cups... Very nice.

Could you potentially reduction fire if you were to purge an electric kiln with an inert gas? Not saying it would be practical, but it would be interesting to be able to control the atmosphere to the extent

So I'm drinking some tea from some mass produced porcelain teacup, and the bottom appears almost entirely glazed. And when I think about other mass produced ceramics, they seem to be entirely glazed too. How do they achieve that without getting things stuck to their massive industrial kilns?

@floriangadsby

8 ай бұрын

They'll either have a VERY thin section that's unglazed around the edge - or they're fired on stilts, you should be able to find three very tiny spots that are unglazed.

@theoptimisticmetalhead7787

8 ай бұрын

@@floriangadsby This is what I love about being subscribed to artisans. For the rest of my life every piece of pottery I ever buy I'm gonna be looking for that stuff, hahaha. Thanks for replying!

My bf listening passively: “this guy is a pottery god”

i looked this morning and you were sold out on the store, is this a new batch or? I have started a class and your videos are so inspiring, thank you so much.

@ragnkja

8 ай бұрын

There’s a link to the exhibition sale in the video description, but at the time of writing all pottery except a set of five lined vases (not these miniature vases) is sold out. The set can be found on the last page when using the default sorting, and costs £2500, which is probably why it’s the one that’s not immediately sold out (though I expect it to be sold *long* before the exhibition ends in February).

@floriangadsby

8 ай бұрын

@ragnkja answered it for me! I didn’t expect the shop to sell out so quickly… but 99% of it went in the first few hours. Apologies and thanks so much for watching! 🙌🏻

Dang it. I can't afford the vase but it's still sad to see that every item is already sold out after only being up for a day. Maybe one day I can have one of the vases, but at this rate I'm not sure

Is there a reason you use wax instead of just wiping the bottoms off with a wet carpet square? I find that doing so gets me clean bottoms without having to use wax and worry about getting it where I don’t want it

@jinghangzhang3649

8 ай бұрын

(What I mean is the wet carpet square is placed on a table, and the pot is rotated against it while you apply pressure)

@floriangadsby

8 ай бұрын

I find the carpet method doesn’t ensure 100% accuracy - the bevel on the feet of my pots won’t be completely identical, so if there’s a millimetre difference it means I have to control the pressure used to press each pot into the carpet differently, to wipe away what’s quite a thick layer of glaze. That alone, the fact that the glaze is so think, would cause issues, because as the material is ground away it clogs the carpet and makes for less accurate washes thereafter. Also, when I have done it before, the glaze is wiped off and accumulates into a thick band around the bottom with uneven burrs that remain attached. Really, how you finish the bottoms of pots is so glaze dependent and what works for one type of clay/glaze, might not work for another! But! What you’ve suggested is a useful technique and I’ve used it in the past for thinner glazes, it just doesn’t suit these thicker celadon-type crackle glazes.

@jinghangzhang3649

8 ай бұрын

@@floriangadsby I see; that makes sense, especially the part about thicker glazes. I’ve found that the method is more difficult when the glaze is particularly thick as well with the glazes that are in the studio I work at.

Why not just use s jig for the profile of the piece, otherwise looks good

I didnt even kmow you could sketch like that

Why they need to bring back unpaid apprentices.