How to Make a Pottery Teapot from Start to Finish

This film shows how my stoneware straight sided, stepped teapots are made from beginning to end. It includes every little single step along the way and is a long video, my longest yet in fact, so do let me know if you manage to watch it all the way through to the end and least I forget, Happy New Year! If you'd like to see what I'm up to daily check out my Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/floriangadsby/ If you'd like to watch a video that explains the reduction firing process in a lot more detail you can find that here: https://youtu.be/5UJi6u50foI Timecodes: 00:00 - Introduction 00:30 - Wedging clay for teapot bodies 01:18 - Throwing teapot body 07:07 - Preparing clay for lids 08:05 - Reversing measured callipers 08:20 - Throwing lid 10:19 - Throwing spout 12:12 - Unwrapping components from drying overnight 13:56 - Trimming the teapot body and lid 18:15 - Demonstrating how the lid's hole functions 20:29 - Attaching the spout to the teapot body 25:44 - Pulling and attaching the handle 31:34 - Carving the handle and quality control 33:31 - Packing the electric kiln for a bisque firing to 1000ºc 33:44 - Unpacking the electric kiln 35:10 - Waxing the teapot 36:38 - Mixing up glaze 37:10 - Glazing the teapot 38:28 - Cleaning up the glazed lid and body 41:23 - Preparing the waddings for the lid 42:00 - Packing the gas kiln 43:05 - Firing the gas kiln to 1290ºc, (cone ten) 45:18 - Unpacking the gas kiln 45:33 - Sanding the base of the teapot 46:49 - Removing the waddings 47:09 - Using valve grinding paste to smooth the join 47:59 - Making a cup of of tea, (earl grey) 48:52 - The finished teapot My wadding recipe is: 50% china clay/kaolin, 50% coarse alumina hydrate. Mix together slowly and then combine with water very slowly, as it seems to turn to a liquid very easily, so add less than you think. The gas kiln is a Rohde KG-340, my potter's wheel is a Rohde HMT 500 and my electric kiln is a Rohde TE-200. Thanks for watching! ____ TikTok – https://www.tiktok.com/@floriangadsby Website – http://www.floriangadsby.com