This week’s film is an interesting one, or rather, it’s the kind I’m most excited about making. Alex Pole, a blacksmith, (links below), recently sent me two packets of metal scraps, by-products from his craft, to incorporate into my clay to fire and test. There’s hammer scale produced from hammering steel and bronze filings from trimming the material on a lathe. This video shows the entire process, from wedging it into clay, trimming it, glazing the experimental pieces and finally reduction firing them to 1290ºC.

What will they look like?

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Timecodes:
0:00 - Introduction and unboxing
0:40 - Mixing the metals, bronze and steel hammer scale into my clay
2:06 - Throwing two test bowls
3:53 - Trimming the bowls
6:42 - The trays I'll be firing these in, (safety nets)
8:08 - Loading the electric kiln for a bisque firing to 1000ºC
9:02 - Waxing the bowl's feet
9:30 - Glazing the bowls
10:23 - Tidying up the glazed surface
10:46 - Preparing the bowls for reduction firing
12:14 - Reduction firing my Rohde KG-340 to 1290ºC
13:40 - Unloading the gas kiln
14:01 - The fired bowls...
15:51 - Firing them a second time!
17:04 - The final, finished bowls.
17:58 - Polishing their feet
19:30 - Clean up

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