Congrats Andy!!! It turned out just beautiful!!! Been eagerly awaiting this video and was worth the wait! Thanks so much for the shout out too! Looked like everything went very smooth for you in this firing. That small bit of carbon you got is a great testament of how that pot was fired!

@AncientPottery

29 күн бұрын

Thanks Will. Let's see if I can bump up your subscriber count today, currently at 1.21K

@chloeuntrau4588

23 күн бұрын

Exactly!

My 3 year old loves to watch you paint your pots, she always asks if “this is a video where Andy paints” keep it up! Paint more!

@AncientPottery

28 күн бұрын

That's cool, I always have to speed up the painting or else it would be super boring.

That pot turned out absolutely gorgeous! Nearly perfect! Everything was so well presented in this video. Thanks for your hard work Andy.

Actually gave a little out loud "Yeahhhh" when I saw that white and black and, most of all, solid pot come out of the pit!!! So good

Terrific job and what a relief! The large sherds look like an important component. Thanks for the mention.

@AncientPottery

29 күн бұрын

That's true, the larger the pot, the larger the needed cover sherds to get the job done

This heals my grief over the earlier Tularosa pot :) I think I'll adopt the nest idea, my big pot slumped. Great video.

@AncientPottery

29 күн бұрын

Thanks Angela, I know a lot of people have expressed concern about that broken pot. Hopefully this makes it better.

That is perfect,... If they come out any cleaner than that, In my opinion it would look less authentic,. We enjoyed this video a lot and absolutely love how that pot came out! Thanks for the mention and thanks for the lessons!

@AncientPottery

29 күн бұрын

That's a good point. I hope you get some views from this. I am looking forward to your next video.

Great work,Andy, remarkable Greetings from Serbia

@AncientPottery

29 күн бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

One of your best pots ever! It looks incredible!

@AncientPottery

29 күн бұрын

Thanks so much 😊

@fatbuttbassett4732

21 күн бұрын

Nice to see AA following here. 2 of my most enjoyed channels. Im always amazed how little i know of pre-columbian american history despite considering myself above average knowledge. Thank you BOTH for furthering my persuit of knowledge and skills!

andy i loved how long this video was! the attention to each step in the process, with such beautiful shots taken too. i liked to hear the sounds of the scraping and shaping of the pottery. beautiful video and i would love to see more in this style!

@AncientPottery

28 күн бұрын

Thanks, I will do more. Of course the length of the video is influenced by the size of the pot so the next may be a bit shorter.

Congratulations! That is loveliness embodied.

@AncientPottery

29 күн бұрын

Thanks

Howdy Andy , Great Video ! This is truly one of the best , “how to videos”, that will go down in history ! I watched this video twice, so far ! All of the care in building, shaping, smoothing , slipping, painting, drying & firing ! I am so happy to see you master the art of smothering & achieving reduced iron paint! I’m also happy to know that your 1st Tularosa Olla found a great home ! My guess was 12 coils , bcuz of the size you were going for ! Being sick is no joy, when one is doing what he loves best ! Great job & happy to see THIS video come out , please take care & keep them coming !!

@AncientPottery

29 күн бұрын

Thanks Cliff! You were so close with 12 coils.

Oh I absolutely overshoot! I guessed around 30! Well, anyone can tell I dont do pottery hahaha The pot turned out fantastic! Its super cool that the pigment turned black, too! Thank you for the video Andy!

@AncientPottery

26 күн бұрын

You're welcome, glad you enjoyed the video.

I made myself a small pot this week, maybe 6-8" tall. This is my first real attempt at decorating with slip. I bought some colored clays of amazon (they're meant to be used as face masks!) and did some test firings to see what color they'll come out to. What really surprised me is how smooth the slip layer is, I haven't even stone polished it yet and it feels so nice.

@AncientPottery

29 күн бұрын

That sounds cool. Do those clays keep their colors through the fire?

That cleaned up really well. I think it may be your best one yet! And I guessed less than 10 coils, but you outsmarted me by making those upper coils smaller!

@AncientPottery

29 күн бұрын

Yes, thanks Dave. Those coils had to get smaller as the clay started wanting to sag, that is probably why my guess was short too.

Brilliant! I guessed 12 coils initially. But you hyped it so much I thought I was too conservative so I changed my guess to 24 😆 That first pot breaking would have brought me to my knees!

@AncientPottery

9 күн бұрын

LOL, I over-hyped it. Occasional breakage is just a part of making pottery however distressing it is.

Excellent result, and what a beautiful pot. Great video, loved seeing it start to finish, what a treat.

@AncientPottery

28 күн бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching

👍 This is good video production: building up a pot combined whit the history of it's macking art. I like it! 👍

@AncientPottery

29 күн бұрын

Thank you very much!

@mihailvormittag6211

29 күн бұрын

@@AncientPottery 👍

I was going to a nearby lake and I tripped on a molehill, it turned out that I found the perfect yellow clay, I don't even need to add fine sand because it is perfect and I will soon start making figures and other things from it, incredible. 😊

I was close! I guessed 12! I build with much smaller coils, so if it where me it would be 20 to 30, but I knew you favored bigger ones so I guessed what I thought was a ridiculously low number and I still wasn't low enough!

@AncientPottery

29 күн бұрын

That's funny, I think most people over-guessed.

Ive become a recent fan but love your channel. Funny educational and very interesting. Much love from Australia

@AncientPottery

29 күн бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

Beautiful results! A shame about the carbon deposit. Thanks for the video. Hypnotic credits with the spinning pot.

@AncientPottery

27 күн бұрын

Thanks. Like someone said, the carbon spot makes it look more authentic.

I just finished watching your previous attempt and I’m so happy to see you trying again! I guessed 10 coils!

Congratulations, Andy. That's a beautiful pot and a really well executed production. Inspiring!

Very beautiful pot! I had guessed 12 coils, so I guess I was close.

@AncientPottery

28 күн бұрын

Very close

This is beautiful! Thanks for sharing this labour of love.

Really great work on the pot and lovely video! I guessed 10 coils - so close :) I imagine that drying pots evenly involved a great deal of re-wetting areas that are drying too fast. Seems to me that that is what children might've been tasked with.

Cranking the corn grinder is a heavy duty job lol thanks for your work

@AncientPottery

27 күн бұрын

You're welcome, I have to get my exercise somehow

Beautiful piece of artwork! Wonderfully documented!

@AncientPottery

23 күн бұрын

Many thanks!

YES!!!!

Fantastic result Andy..been a windy road getting there..Going to look good on your shelf

@AncientPottery

28 күн бұрын

Thanks Steve, it will look even better on somebody else's shelf.

Wonderful to watch you make this pot, Andy, bravo👏 thanks for sharing!

Beautiful work, I'm glad it came out intact

Beautiful!! 😍

That is your best reduced iron paint!

@AncientPottery

27 күн бұрын

Yes, now to see if I can do it again.

Awesome video 👍

@AncientPottery

29 күн бұрын

Thank you 👍

Such beautiful work

@AncientPottery

29 күн бұрын

Thank you so much 😀

Wow, that came out so good! I'm beyond impressed 😍

@AncientPottery

29 күн бұрын

Thank you!! 😊

Beautiful pot!

@AncientPottery

27 күн бұрын

Thank you! 😊

❤ Looks great 👍! Congratulations 👏. Thanks for sharing

@AncientPottery

28 күн бұрын

Thanks

Looks great

You pose an interesting quandary: how did the ancients dry their pots uniformly? Would they have access to large amounts of grass or woven grass in Arizona? Perhaps they covered the pots in cover sherds. Anything to minimize airflow, rate of moisture loss, and heating. If you dampened the coverings, then they would humidify the pot somewhat uniformly, and as they dried they would dry the pot somewhat uniformly. Give it a try with a tall tubular pot. If the bedding of the pot were to rest on top of plant matter, then it should also be able to participate in the humidification and drying.

@AncientPottery

27 күн бұрын

Good thoughts. Yes they had grass and woven matts as well as woven cloth. I have wondered about the use of damp cotton cloth but have never experimented with that.

What a success! Great video and thanks for the knowledge you share!

@AncientPottery

29 күн бұрын

My pleasure!

Gorgeous! ❤👍

I know it sounds selfish but I feel like this channel is a little personal hidden gem. I would love to get into this, once I get a firm handle on my other hobbies first lol! I've just begun wood working and not even enough to warrant being good at it. I was also thinking it would have taken 14 coils, close but no cigar!

@AncientPottery

28 күн бұрын

I hope you can find time to try it after you are done with woodworking.

@orellinvvardengra6775

27 күн бұрын

@@AncientPottery Oh I will more than likely take my first steps this summer if I'm being honest!

7 coils, maybe 8. For drying I would have just put it upside down on top of the rim with a cloth underneath so that it could contract easily, and all parts get access to air in a similar way. Same thing for the firing, but I am guessing you put it right side up to keep the designs as clean as possible.

@AncientPottery

28 күн бұрын

Yes, fired right side up because it is hard to get the bottom clean. But when drying the top is rather fragile, I could have broken the rim off if I had set it upside down, at least early on.

Super fantastic !! What a great all around success Andy. Looks amazing

@AncientPottery

29 күн бұрын

Thanks Jeff, this is probably my best reduction firing yet. I actually have a bunch of pots to refire so maybe I'll try again in a similar fashion.

Well done good sir !

@AncientPottery

29 күн бұрын

Thanks

GG It's beautiful!

@AncientPottery

27 күн бұрын

Thanks! 😄

Wow! The B/W jar came out beautiful. The ancients would be impressed! I think the reconstruction of your broken pot is rewarding too. I'm glad it was recovered. Great step by step instructions and cautions. I hope you're feeling better. PS: all the soil I see up on the rim is red. Are you going toward Show Low or just above Payson for white clay? A video on this search would be helpful.

@AncientPottery

29 күн бұрын

Yes, most of the ground up there is red and yet there are a lot of layers of grey and whiteish clays all around. I have never found any above Payson but I have found many from Springerville over to Heber. Try Forest Road 107 near Willow Wash, there is a road cut in there with a million different colors of clay including many light shades of grey/white

@PSC9634

29 күн бұрын

@@AncientPottery awesome. Thank you.

Awesome Andy,I'm thinking of making a large scale pot like yours,not as big though

@AncientPottery

29 күн бұрын

Go for it!

3 minutes in, my guess is 17 coils 🤞love your work brother God bless

Trying to get into low tech ceramics specifically for making ollas around the garden, love to see it

@AncientPottery

23 күн бұрын

I have heard it said that "low tech ceramics" is just another was of saying "primitive pottery"

I guessed 10 to 12 coins. Now you inspireret me to try to make one. A big one. 😁

@AncientPottery

23 күн бұрын

Good guess. Now do it!

@birgittenielsen2454

23 күн бұрын

Coils

I guessed 12 coils... Horseshoes & hand grenades. Beautiful pot!

@AncientPottery

29 күн бұрын

Yeah, that's pretty close. Thanks

I first thought 14, then revised to 20. I guess I was way over!!

@AncientPottery

28 күн бұрын

Thanks for playing

Hi Andy! I follow you with great love from Romania. I timidly started to make pottery using wild clay from our area. I made a cup, which is ok, then a plate. I reached the polishing phase, everything went very well, but on the plate, on the 5th day, a small crack appeared at the top, at the edge. I used clay and sand 20%. I was going to burn it tomorrow. Do you think I can do something more, or can you tell me where I went wrong?

@AncientPottery

28 күн бұрын

Thank you. Could it be that you allowed it to dry unevenly? kzread.info/dash/bejne/iK1ow6Svo5THXbA.htmlsi=JmkaS7-FdbPC8GFf

@vasigioni

28 күн бұрын

@@AncientPottery Thank you!

So beautiful...

@AncientPottery

23 күн бұрын

Thanks a lot 😊

Olways SUPER Qlt Sir: my Respects, perfect Job Art ...Clay

@AncientPottery

27 күн бұрын

Thank you

My guess was 27 coils. I guess my typical coils are way smaller, that might explain why I'm having hard time using the coil method.

@AncientPottery

29 күн бұрын

There are a million ways to do it, some prefer small coils and do amazing work that way. There is no right and wrong with pottery, just what works for each person.

Very strong work there. I knew an Andy Ward from Arizona while serving in Alaska 89-91 are you related or maybe the same Andy?

@AncientPottery

29 күн бұрын

Thsnkd. I have never been to Alaska

It looks like each coil gives about 1 inch in height. I think the final pot is maybe 18 inches tall (excluding the neck) so maybe 25 coils to construct. The diameter of the pot is quite large, so a large portion will be used around that part.

@GhostyOcean

29 күн бұрын

I was WAY off, almost doubles the amount 😅

@AncientPottery

29 күн бұрын

The problem was you overestimated the height, the pot is closer to 12 inches high.

When anyone asks me how I fire my pottery without a kiln or make pottery without a wheel I tell them to watch your videos and subscribe to your channel

@AncientPottery

27 күн бұрын

Thank you for the advertisement.

Have you seen where the Orientals water quench hot pottery

When you are scraping, how much pressure are you using? I think I'm scraping too hard. It's hard to figure out the right pressure.

@AncientPottery

29 күн бұрын

Oh it's hard to say isn't it. It kind of depends on how soft the clay is, if it is very soft I will use very little pressure but if it has firmed up a lot I will really get after it.

I guessed 8 coils. Sort of close.

Ehhhh. I guessed 7 coils. I could tell by coil 4 that my guess was WAY off. Anyways, thanks for another great video!!

@AncientPottery

27 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching and playing along

Not even close, I guessed 15 coils

She's a beauty.

@AncientPottery

29 күн бұрын

Thanks

Nine coils is my guess 🤔

If your ground is damp to wet will that hurt the firing

I was WAY over, I guessed 16 coils.

I guessed 12 coils - but thought I'd be WAY off.

@AncientPottery

27 күн бұрын

That's pretty close

@karladenton5034

27 күн бұрын

@@AncientPottery I'm on the textile side of things and was thinking how I would do a coil basket that size, so I'm shocked that I guessed that well. Your pot turned out so beautifully!

i thought it'll be around 60 coils

@AncientPottery

29 күн бұрын

Wow, way less. Thanks

I thought it would be 15 coils

@AncientPottery

27 күн бұрын

Not quite that many

My guess was fifteen, not too far off.

@AncientPottery

29 күн бұрын

Close

I thought 10 to 12 coils

Would it be any trouble if I ask that you send me some clay dirt here to Dallas,TX? It's hard to find here.

@margiegandy9189

23 күн бұрын

I live about an hour east of Dallas. My land is full of beautiful clay that I would be happy to share. It is mostly red. All my firings come out black because I haven’t figured that part out yet.

@cocoalb_22

10 күн бұрын

@@margiegandy9189 omg, you must live in east Texas, I need some

@margiegandy9189

10 күн бұрын

@@cocoalb_22 Absolutely! Our little community is called Martins Mill if you want to check out logistics. We have a school, church, and a gas station that serves excellent cheeseburgers, and an interesting array of photos of all of the founding families along the back wall. Close to Canton, the giant Once a month flea market.

I thought it would take 17 coils

@AncientPottery

29 күн бұрын

Not too far off

😄👍👏

My guess: 10 coils

@AncientPottery

3 күн бұрын

Close

I thought 14

7 coils.

سلام چقدر شما دو برادر به هم شبیه هستید❤

@AncientPottery

29 күн бұрын

There is only one of me

Haha, I guessed 20!

Coils? I am going to guess 25.

@Kargoneth

28 күн бұрын

I greatly overestimated. I thought that it was going to be larger as well. Oh well.

@AncientPottery

28 күн бұрын

Over double

10 Edit: Damn so close

@AncientPottery

29 күн бұрын

Not bad, better than I did

I guessed 20 way off

My guess was 14

Guessing 33

@RoosterPootPottery

29 күн бұрын

I hit the 3 twice meant 13

@AncientPottery

29 күн бұрын

Close but not close enough

🤍 🖤

I thought 14