Before and after

Before and after shots are neat.

Finished work

Here are some of the pots I made this semester.

The process

I know I have not posted anything in awhile and I apologize, so here is a really big post to make up for it.

I thought it would be neat to document my process of making pots and naturally I picked a project with a lot of steps.

Step one: A nice wheel thrown bowl. I enjoy step one, but I find it is what I do the least here in grad school.

Step two: Trimming of the bowl. This bowl has no foot, you will find out why if you continue reading.

Step three: Cutting out the windows. This takes a lot of time and has a process of its own, but I figure if I went into every detail you probable wouldn’t read past step one.

Step four: Cleaning of the sharp window edge. No one likes sharp window edges.

Step five: Adding of the stamped slabs. This also takes forever and has a number of steps that would bore anyone but me to death or at least tears. But we have our prototype!

Step six: Claying up the prototype to make the mold. Making molds is hard work, but I enjoy it because it has a lot of steps.

Step six A: pouring the plaster.

And we have a mold.

Step seven: Casting, I find this step to be very rewarding. I get to see all my work start to payoff.

Step seven A: pouring out the excess slip. This really is not a step but I had I picture of it for some reason. See how nice the inside looks!

The first successful cast

Step eight: The clean up. With a little bit of cleaning we are back to step five.

Step nine: Adding the foot. I add the foot after because I want a nice inside plane.

Step ten: finished bowl. Not actually a step, but ten steps sound better than nine.

plate

From the start of my graduate school education my wife has been pleading with me to make some plates, but of course I’ve put it off. The other day my professor made a comment about me not making plates and BAM a plate, go’s to show that if you want me to do something just ask my professor.

new stuff

Here is the pitcher and tumbler I have been working on. I’m going to make a mold of the tumbler so I can cast a set of four. I love molds

Evil egg pepper shaker wha ha ha ha

Ok everyone I know this has been a long time coming, you can stop asking yourselves “I wonder when Deric is going to post his bad egg pepper shaker?” because here it is

Here is a little ewer I’ve been working on for I don’t want to say how long, but summer is over I feel the need to post something. Just a few more touch-ups on the handle and it will be finished.