How I recycle my clay with Simon Leach
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- August 8th, 2022
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I always enjoy your posts. Thank you, Simon.
Looking forward to a new shirt!
Enjoy your vids. I recently found you from some old vids you did where you converted an old electric kiln to gas. I'm doing the same. I found someone getting rid of a bunch of pottery stuff. Good score for a newbie like me.
Thankyou! Helps for me to see not just read.
Thanks but shouldn’t you wear a mask with all the clay dust swirling around?
My thoughts also
Great to recycle clay!!!
And, I love my Leach wheel!!
I stopped using my electric wheel, now it’s kick wheel all the way!! Great way to control speed, much more enjoyable making pots and such!!!
Simon, I suggest your videos to all my students. Great video! love the T shirt .
Great video
Nice job Simon. I have always did my clay the same way, but I use a power mixer on you drill to speed up the process. I know you talker about doing a work shop in Texas before to long. I hope you will take some videos when you are there. eddie.
Fascinating.
Я восхищаюсь Вами!!!
Ваши работы - прекрасны!!!!
You are making sense.
Clay is made of different size particles.
Slip is the finest of the particles
Love your videos. I used this method to recycle clay as a beginning potter. Purchased a Peter Pugger mixing/pug mill to make my own throwing clay from dry material. I now directly use what would have been recycled to directly make fresh throwing clay. Best investment in the studio given shipping costs of bag clay because I am not shipping wet clay.
Love this - thank you for showing all of the little things you do -
Nice video Simon.
Thanks Simon
Beautiful ❤.
✨Clay IS the way💫 back on The Wheel today… A few GP bowls for a fundraiser … Yee HAW! Thanks Simon!
I let my throwing water settle, pour off the water to reuse again and reclaim all the settled clay... Often times I find my reclaimed clay is too soft because I don't typically have much dry groggy stuff to add back in but I don't think that can be helped much other than to mix in some fresh clay when I wedge it. Keeping a smaller reclaim bucket forces me to do smaller batches more often, making it less of whole ordeal. I am still working on it. I just hate waste.
I had tables whose whole surface was a giant bat. Once the soggy clay was on the surface evenly about 4 inches thick would cover with plaster bars til the consistency I needed. Wedge and line a plastic trash can on bottom with vinegar soaked rag and repeat til full. Vinegar grows mycillium. A stringy white substance. Makes the clay plastic
Could you give the next vidéo which complète this one?
How do you dry it out after slaking it down?
Simon, I made a plaster bat in a large plastic bin using potters plaster but when I tried to dry out the clay bits of the plaster are getting into the clay. I left the plaster to dry for quite a while. Did I use the wrong ratio of water to plaster? Thanks
That's cool.......I'd think a mask would be important to cut down on the silica exposure, gotta keep this stud around as long as we can.
If I lived in the US I’d buy you a new watering can 😀
It helps grow mycillium. And that makes the clay plastic.