Want to learn a really easy and fast way to throw dinner plates on the potter's wheel?
In this video I will show you how I make my dinner plates on the pottery wheel, which clay I use and how much.
And I will show you a couple of really nice tools to speed up the process and secure a consistent design with very little risk of cracking.
I will be using a PCV tube to expand the plate, a small special rub I made to shape the rim and a custom made foam chuck to trim the plates. I will show you how to make it all.
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INDEX:
00:00 Making dinner plates on the pottery wheel
00:50 The challenges of making ceramic dinner plates
01:22 Kiln shelfs for dinner plates
01:50 Ceramic plates do often crack
02:24 Ceramic dinner plate designs - aesthetics and function
06:00 Easy way to throw dinner plates - with a PVC tube
09:00 Using sticks to measure the size of the plates
10:05 The best clay to use for wheel thown plates
11:27 How much clay to use for a wheel thrown plate?
12:25 1.5 kg - Centering the clay and making the basic puck
12:44 Using the PVC tube to extand the plate
14:41 Cutting the plate to the right size
16:10 Raising the edge to create the plate flange
18:07 Compressing the plate
19:00 Using chamois leather to smoothen the edge of the plate
20:48 Adding a swirly texture on the inside of the plate
22:56 1.4 kg - centering the clay and making the basic puck
23:48 Using the PVC tube to extand the plate and cuttting it
24:45 Using my new tool to raising the edge of the plate flange
26:55 Compressing the plate to avoid cracks
27:35 Adding a swirly texture on the inside of the plate
28:20 1.3 kg - centering the clay and making the plate
30:37 Why I do not wire off my plates
31:43 Making a tool for trimming the plates
41:30 The plates easily released from the bats
42:10 Trimming the plates
44:00 Burnishing the bottom of the plates
45:00 Stamping the plates with my makers mark
46:30 A looked at the finished and dryed plates - 3 kinds of clay
47:39 Perfect stacking of the plates
48:52 Preparing the bisque fire the plates
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