Recycling Clay, the ENTIRE Process
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- Reclaim, from start to finish, save the part that actually produces the waste anyway. I place all my scraps into the green bucket that sits beside my wheel, trimmings, leftover skims from thrown pots, everything, I even scrape my hands off against the buckets sharp edge as I throw, to remove the slip so I can pick the pots away neatly.
The only thing I don’t put into the bucket are larger masses of leather hard clay, as they can take weeks or even months to degrade properly - instead these are placed onto a heater so they can dry out thoroughly before being soaked - only then will they slake down.
All these slops sit in water and turn to slurry, sometimes for a week, or longer or less, depending on how quickly I need to recycle it. I then use a sponge to remove much of the excess water on top and then give it a thorough mix. I bring the bucket to the thick plaster batts, (each made from about 8 kg potter’s plaster and 2 kg casting plaster), and scoop the reclaim out onto them.
It’ll sit on these for a few days, or a week, again this really depends on things like the weather, if the kilns have been firing or not, if it’s winter, or summer and so on, there’s no one-size-fits-all technique, so you’ve just got to figure it out for your own studio. What I’m looking for though is for this recycled clay that was soaking to resemble the consistency it had when delivered in bags. It needs to be soft, so it can be easily wedged, but not so soft that it just falls apart as you knead it and sticks to the table.
Once it has that desired consistency I’ll peel the clay off the batt, cut in into more manageable pieces, and spiral wedge them up before blocking them off and storing them away, wrapped tightly in plastic and now ready to be thrown into new pots.
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That crunch from that bone dry pot was so satisfying yet sad that it had to be done at all 😂
Nothing beats smashing bone dry clay - it’s always a satisfying task.
@@floriangadsby Which clay do you use, can you share with me the method of making that clay which you use, I am also an Indian Pottery Artist
Its like breaking chocolate, but less messy
I love clay recycling videos! And processing wild clay 😊 Not really sure why, but something about them is very pleasing 💜
i recycle my own clay in the bathroom
@@beaualoevvwhat do u mean by that
@@kunpunko theyre being stupid and gross
it's your hunter gatherer instincts telling you to make pots for the tribe. give in.
@@glizzygulper8948 oh I do lol! I even hand build and dig my own clay 😏
the wedgeing on high speed Was really funny 😄
Quite interesting no? To see how the shape develops from a single frame of reference.
tres amusante
As a pottery student,I can SMELL this video 😂
I haven't worked with clay in years, and now after reading this comment I can smell it too
Same 😂
Atleast the one thing with pottery is it’s really nice you can just recycle what you don’t use or like
Only someone who loves their craft could get any enjoyment from doing that.
My arms were aching just at the thought of it.
Loves their craft and knows how much good clay can cost.
@@pretzelbomb6105 True. 😄
This brings back memories from highschool pottery class. I'd volunteer to do this after school every day it was so satisfying to play with the clay ❤
Cant begin to describe how glad i am you didnt add music 🙏
I cannot begin to describe how wonderfully satiating these videos are. I love the crunch of the dry clay being mixed in.
What I want to see is how you clean your hands after you’re done. When I used to do pottery the thing I hated most was how messy my hands always seemed to be
Thats what stops me from doing pottery, or making bread. Hate the feeling of it drying to your hands while you're working 😶
Oh at my class we used to have a bucket filled with water and wash our hands there (it's easy to get rid of the clay with that much water and then recycle it). Then I just used hand soap and my hands were clean.
@@SelakoraI wish we had this at my class - I have to walk from the studio through several offices with claggy hands to the sink with the clay trap.
I dislike that feeling too, I use gloves, that helps a ton. I don’t throw on a wheel tho just hand building.
Basta usar uma luva! @@Blackstardragon393
Absolutely love your work. I admire your dedication to your art as well as your spirit. You are my favorite potter to watch and learn from. Your style is easier for me to understand and fits me personally really well. I've taught myself ceramics in the past two years and you've been essential to my journey. Thank you for the informative videos and your kind warm spirit. ❤
Pottery seems like one of the most satisfying and soothing hobbies out there. As a kid I’ve always loved playing with mud. You could leave me alone for hours with it and I would be in my little corner playing with mud and shaping it and cooking it in the sun. Although unlike clay, mud always ends up crumbing once it’s dry. But I kept making them anyways, because I enjoyed the process. I’d love to experience that again.
Forbidden pudding
It's not forbidden, go ahead taste it :) what's the worst that could happen? A cop could stop you for doing pot
@@theblackbaron4119 OMG that was good lol
I am happy you reuse the clay. Something makes me happy to see all the little bits and pieces return to a big clay brick!! Every little piece of clay counts! Wahoo!
I love recycling clay! I work at a ceramic studio and reclaim/recycle twice a week 😊
Aaahh that last part when you turn it into blocks. So satisfying.
Mad props on the hand wedging old school style. For those that don't know they make pressure cylinder type deals called pug mills that mechanize alot of the hand mashing work he did. Absolutely dedicated guy right here. Much respect
Those pug mills cost like $7,000
@@VideoKitty if you ship around Facebook and Craigslist and ask at various schools you can usually find a decent used one for way less than that
Florian, thanks for showing your box step up on! The body mechanics on the lower table are much better, and when you can’t lower your table… 😊
I love when art mediums are so easily recycled.
damn, your floors are really clean in spite of the work you guys do
I love that humans love playing in the dirt so much they decided to turn it into a profession
I love slip, it’s always so fun to play with it for some reason, it’s just clay drowned in water I don’t know what’s so good but to me it’s satisfying!
Recycling clay is so much fun. I took a ceramics class at a college where they threw away the unused clay. What a waste.
Love your editing, thank you for not abruptly cutting the camera too
Thanks for showing this and including the completed (but unglazed I presume) pot in the process!
Correct. Once clay has been in the kiln it can’t be recycled anymore.
I didn't read the captions so I thought it was chocolate at the beginning 😂 anw i love your work❤
i love turning the slip into plastic it’s my fav part at school. we have a ceramics class and i really enjoy it!
The fact that he did this in long sleeves and I don’t see a spec clay on the cuff amazes me 😮
I love clay! I just sit and knead small pieces of clay while I watch tv. 😂😂 I want to recycle clay! Would love too! It feels so good and therapeutic! 💖
Try learning to do pinch pots while you watch TV!
Answered an age old question with this video 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾
Hands down the most satisfying video on the entire internet!!
Nice video. You just got yourself a new sub 😉
Wow! Imagine if he just threw that away! That's four bricks of clay and the money that would have gone out the window! Love this!
This is what I love about ceramic arts, the recycling process.
Something I remember from ceramics class that I will never forget is the SMELL of the slip bucket. I can’t speak for every slip buckets as lots of factors could be at play but it smelt strongly of mildew. Like the basement of an old house that is carpeted and has flooded multiple times in the past.
I was a TA for a ceramics class at my high school and would spend the whole period recycling clay using a machine 😂 thanks for the memory
Very satisfying. You wouldn't believe how much clay is thrown out at a car company when they make clay models
I always figured there was a way to recycle clay, but I never actually looked into it. It looks annoying, but very satisfying to do
I can still remember the sewage smell that bucket had from high school ceramics. Ah sweet sweet memories
Oh my LORD I could watch/hear you break that pot into clay ALL DAY - it was like breaking a chocolate bar-why am I hungry now?
That crunch and slimey part sounded delicious lol
This is the kind of goop I can get behind. Predictable, homogeneous, well-understood goop. This goop isn’t hiding anything from you.
I love this so much. I love how everything looks and sounds
Saw a previous video about a machine that does this but really cool to see the... normal? Way of doing it.
I would love to be an assistant for someone who uses clay, this looks like so much fun
It's like getting to play in the mud as a kid, but actually constructive
How long does it take for you to fill one of the buckets?
It depends entirely upon on how much trimming I’ve been doing/what shapes. Bowls, for instance, tend to be trimmed much more than a mug, so if I have a batch of sixty bowls to get through I can easily fill the bucket in a day’s time.
It's amazing how clay is an absolutely zero waste material.
That what the good pum pum sounding like.
i can smell the first part of this video. that super damp earthy clay smell. god i miss it
So satisfying that it cures my depression 😂❤
VERY satisfying! You are the pottery ASMR king! 🎉🎉🎉
reminds me of that one video of that guy kneading dough aggressively
me in the back of the mcdonald's after i get my hands on the chocolate shakes
I need to hire this guy to knead my dough 😭
😏
I would simply slather a thin layer like buttering bread, on the plaster, then wedge it and keep adding more slip until it was a cinnamon roll.
Then I’d wedge it into the brick. Two hours got me 3-4 bricks of clay. I honestly didn’t know you could simply set it out over night.
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Oh man... You're really brave !🤌
This is doing what you love
My first instinct when seeing those two large mounds of clay was to cut a slice out of them and eat them.
Don't let me around clay, folks.
Bentonite clay is safe to eat in small quantities, though it's a different type than pottery clay. So long as you do your research, munch away!
I feel the same watching glass blowing videos, the temptation to touch the pretty gloop would be overwhelming 😂😅
Thank you, I'm going for it now!!!!
wrist pain is real, how do you cope?
Never wedge clay that’s too firm. Never trim pots that are too hard.
get into sewing
@@RagnarokGenesis00 lmao
grow some muscles
You ever think about that one bit of clay that has never been recycled?
Anyway, such a satisfying video! (I live for visual/auditory asmr)
I can't stop watching it...
I had an question. Can the clay go to a vaccum chamber to release air inside the clay ?
Does this recycled clay lose quality, especially after being heated to set shape? I'm not well versed so the question might not be quite apt.
If it is heated, it can't be recycled. The pot you saw in the video it just simply dried.
Fired pottery can be crushed up and added as grog provided it is unglazed; but it can never go back to being clay.
The big pot he added was greenware to the reclaiming bin.
@@Tepidnesssgreenware and bonedry both mean they've been sitting out in the open air drying no heat has been applied yet right? If they had been fired that initial time just to dry further and lock everything in place they would be described as bisque fired, am I right? I'm genuinely asking not being a smart ass.
This is..... FASCINATING 🤩
Somehow I was unaware that dried clay could be revycled
Yep as long as it hasn't been through a kiln it can be recycled
طين اسوانلي .... اشتغلت بيه في الكليه اخر مشروع خدت فيه امتياز كانت احلى ايام 😍
IDK why but this looks like fun....
May i suggest a spatula? Its helped me clean the last bits off hands and buckets
What a cool medium to work in :)
that’s what that good 🐈 be soundin’ like.
the step up to pug the clay is so real😂😂
Most satisfying video
man that job you have is soo cool, keep going
This is so satisfying
How do you recycle different clays though? Do you have different buckets for them or are they all mixed together?
Exactly. Different clays have entirely different buckets and plaster batts.
@@floriangadsby What would happen if you recycle all of the different clays in the same buckets and plaster batts? Like Dark, Light, Soft, Hard Clay etc together in one buckets...
@@melotrashcontent most of the time you CAN recycle and reclaim multiple forms of clay, you just want to be vigilant about it's formulation. at my studio, most clay used all fire and shrink somewhat same so it's ok to just shove it all together. but florian sells his stuff and most likely controls and observes a lot of aspects, so he pays attention to not mixing
Oh man I just want to slosh my hands around in some rehydrating bone dry clay right now
So satisfying. Saves Money to.
This looks delicious
Me : "Ooooooh milo"
"Damn, milo ice cream?"
"Aw,It's not milo..."
This makes me happy that my class has a pugmill. The only one in the area too lmao
The Forbidden Cookie Dough
You recycled that really well you should think about getting into pottery
This is so satisfying ❤
Sensacional, não sabia que isso era possível, após o cozimento...
How do you have such fine soft looking hands?!?!! I’m a 75 year old potter and my hands are a disaster!!!!
Good question. Maybe the answer is not making pots properly for the past couple of months as my focus has been on the launch of my book! They're often rather ragged and cracked, not this winter though! Victory!
That sound was some good clay
Step 1: scoop it
Step 2: smash it
Step 3: soak it
Step 4: sponge it
Step 5: smear it
Step 6: smoosh it
Step 7: stack it
I'm afraid to imagine how strong this guy's arms are
That looks delicious.
Jeez! Must be tiring! Pretty nice pottery content there!
I wanted to ask, is this like a job you do? Like is it a legitimate company you work for or are you doing this from home? I want to do pottery myself but i don't know how to start.
It’s a company! I run my own.
I can't imagine the grip strength of these clay artisans
The forbidden meatloaf.
I love recycling 💖 clay 😍 process
Aloha - I was surprised you didn’t mix the reclaim with a drill first, and only by hand. Shows me I’m putting in too much effort! I’m curious what the blocks (of plaster??) are called that you use to re-de-hydrate the clay on? Mahalo 🙏
That takes some commitment!!😂❤
MMMM, clay ball. Sounds yummy