Kiln elements build up an oxide layer when they heat up. This helps fortify the elements and protect them during subsequent firings. If you were to fire new elements with pottery inside the kiln, your elements would be competing with your ceramic for the oxygen and cause the oxide layer to be uneven, potentially causing weak points during future fires.
“The best medicine for the garden is the gardener” I always put seating in the garden because even if I go sit there to relax I inadvertently start weeding or harvesting etc
THANK YOU for the shout out to Mudtools and the gofundme campaign. They absolutely make the best tools and hopefully the ceramic community can come together to support them. Also, great video. Love watching the troubleshooting- makes me feel better about all my f-ups. 😂
after i got a bigger kiln, i started to think bigger too! i really thought i was going to regret buying a bigger kiln but there was a local sale of one and i just went for it! all of a sudden, having that bigger space made it so that i could be more free in the way i thought of designs and possibilities! just my experience! love your videos!
Aww, what a cute little ghost guy for the "ghost fire" banner... Oh wow, the stool got so much darker when it fired! And what a guy it is! Like a big big pot, with a nose, for sitting! So round... I think he looks so sweet standing guard over the plants. A short round friend who is here to help.
He's so great! This one was a journey. I picture you continuously moving him here and there, just so he gets to see all the things going on in your yard and garden through the seasons.
It doesn't matter what you make, I love your videos. UA-cam puts them at the top of my feed cuz I watch every single one of them. Your projects are always so creative. I have a bigger kiln than yours but I rarely fill it. This video has inspired me to make my own garden stools. Thanks for tackling unique and different projects for each video!
that is so kind of you to share! I think that's what I'm worried about investing in a bigger kiln-- I'd keep the smaller for when I can't fill it, and the bigger one will sit unused 360 days out of the year 🤷♀️
I can’t get enough of your videos! As awesome as I think it would be to pick up pottery as a hobby, I have too many as it is. I love watching passionate craftspeople though and always find something useful to apply to my crafts of choice in your videos. Thanks for all the wonderful videos you make!
I started pottery because of you! Always wanted to try and when I showed your video to my husband he gave me classes as a gift! I love it so much! The chair is so cute!
One reason I love your videos is because you show the struggle & troubleshooting! Thank you for sharing these!! I've been wanting to make a stool after seeing one of the resident artists at my community art school make stools (that he put in a wood firing!). Keep on making awesome things!
The moment when you flipped it and immediately realised it wasn't dry enough - ohhhhh relatable content!!! Every potter has felt that feeling before 😭😅 I really appreciate all the wins and learns in your journey! Thanks for sharing. This stool is wonderful!
I was flipping through a book with my daughters about ancient civilization and there was a cup with marks like the ones from your shredding tool. So I told my daughter that I could tell that they had a wheel to make that cup. It could've just been trimmed on a turn table, like you do here, but the lines were too parallel to have been done another way.
I love him! I really like it in both settings, and the beauty of it is that you can move him around! I love that you persevere through your constraints and challenges to make things work for you! ❤
I really appreciate your boosting mudtools and helping them recover from Helene. It's been really rough for a lot of folks, businesses included, in the path of the storm. My house is leaning and my uncle died, both from the storm, and I think I'm still one of the luckier ones. One poor guy lost 11 family members. Anyway, thanks for helping. And maybe get yourself a paddle before your next big coil build. 😊
So cute! Love when you show how it really is, with plans you have to alter, things to fix. You just keep going with the bump and a smile. The way to go!
Love the stool! I think he should roam around :) Just getting back into clay. Your tutorials / videos are extremely helpful and inspiring. Thank you and Tschuss!
Gorgeous, he looks wonderful next to the changing leaves and will look even better in the winter garden. I love how you're not afraid to push the size to its limits.
Love this video! Thank you for sharing the process, even when it gets complicated (by having to do impromptu electrical work). I'm not a potter, but I always enjoy your videos. Hope you are doing well!
I adore him as a stool/garden sculpture and the whimsy is everything! I want 3 in different sizes!! ❤ Seriously, leaving the comment section to research making that happen. Pure joy
It came out so good! I love that you take us through how you deal with issues that arise during the process - super helpful! Yes, please do a video on making face mugs! Too cute!
Thank you for the video! i would LOVE LOVE LOVE a video on everything to do with the kiln. How to turn on, program a bisque firing , glaze firing, an explanation to “elements” really appreciated the brief dive into the kiln repair
He's so cute! I have tried building big but mine always collapse. What clay body do you use for these big projects? Do you have a video where you talk about it?
I’m still a beginner, but in a workshop I attended the teacher said that the key thing in coil building bigger pieces is to have clay with at least 40% grog, then it can hold the shape better. Also letting it dry a bit after adding a few coils helps too. (I found the clay with more grog to dry a bit quicker.) Some students were also advised to use crumbled paper to support any protruding parts. Hope it helps!
I’m currently building a new studio. I think this might be my first project in the new studio. Some clay chairs have been living rent free in my head and this seems much more doable.
Really enjoyed the video as always. If someone hasn’t mentioned already. You can heat up sections of your kiln elements with a blow torch and then manipulate them back into place more easily. Use tongs or something else to protect your hands.
Nice, if you wanted to you could always build a second piece (like a pedestal) to raise it up a little. P.S. you may not be an electrician but thanks for showing us how you replaced the elements, and the info on ghost firing to oxidize them.
He's adorable! He's probably a great slug habitat, which means you can use him to thin their numbers. Turn him over in the morning and pluck 'em out and drop them in soapy water.
I love this! Gonna try to make a stool for my garden now. ❤ Thank you! I also just bought a kiln and your short tutorial on replacing the elements was awesome!
Now I'm the 50th comment how cool On a real note though this channel is so underrated the quality of entertainment is top tier and paced brilliantly It's always interesting I also like the way the cuts are edited so that you see what's happening in less time that's done great Also that stool looks awesome
Can i stop holding my breath now, oh my, what a ride that was. I too love my shredding tool, early in when my pots were heavy and thick, i could trim away, however i now see that its a lazy way, for me, to throw, so now stuff is getting thinner, ive gone through a few bottoms and or walls. the original turn over was heart stopping and also getting stuck in the kiln, i like the shape pre beating with a wooden form, still looks good, great 'spark' moment for changing elements, bonus section for all kiln owners. Nice size garden for your dog and growing veggies. Like the dark colour of your cooked head, Stool, sorry were past Halloween now. great job and in proportion to the stool size the nose was perfect x
Great video as always. Sharing the struggles and the wins with us all, thank you. I bet the stool will end up all over the yard, as you need here and there.
i have been making little things out of clay since i discovered your channel! i use air dry clay because i'm just playing, basically. but i'm learning a lot from you, and watching you do your thing is interesting and relaxing :) my favorite project so far was i made two dragon egg-shaped bookends for my friend's birthday, i painted them after they dried, and she loved them! thank you for encouraging us to make things with our hands. i'm going to try making more expressive pieces next
Great video. Love the idea of making a stool for the garden. I so enjoy watching the project evolve, even with the issues you ran into. Makes you real. 😊
Have you ever thought of making a template of your kiln with strips of cardboard to have instead of always lifting these big projects? It could be made colapsable so storing would be easy. He turned out adorable.
@@ElsDaughter She wouldnt fire the template it would be just to help her keep her big projects within size without having to risk the project or her back multipul times to see if it fit
10:48 not sure if you do this often, but if so, you could get an 'Instrument Holding Arm' / 'Articulated Arm' (like they use in laboratories) to hold the knife perfectly steady for you. They sell pretty cheap ones online that would be perfect.
Yes the struggle is real. Small kiln vs larger kiln….. mine is smaller too, but would take forever to truly pack a larger one. I loves hims….. 💜. So, all this time I have been planning on doing all you have shone us, and as I’m watching this one I thought….. ugh I have a thermal coupler that I now have to consider for room. 🤦🏻♀️☹️
I just ordered a green rib and I got it quickly from Etsy. They are still doing business in an efficient manner. Some sculptors use the green rib to smooth surfaces.
Do try to keep the raking stripes, it'd really make the form stand out like cross hatching on a drawing, especially on a big item like this! Tiny nose just makes him look even bigger imo, so cute!
Nifty! I'd build a wood (or ceramic, why not?) tripod with a platform just below the point where the tripod would fit snugly inside the first piece, so it can't slide around and would be taller.
I am really intrigued by this build, and love the whole thing. I am wondering how much weight something like this could hold, after all as a stool people will sit on it. Any ideas? And - wow, thanks for the mudtools shoutout, I love their products and videos. We need to help each other out and you are very classy for the tag. xox
Every time you pick up and turn the pot over it stresses me out so bad. As a fellow ceramic artist, the thought of dropping a coil pot that big really scares me. I'm amazed you managed it multiple times without ruining it
Kiln elements oxidize to form an alumina oxide layer around the core, which helps protect the element and make it last longer. The goal is to create a uniform, dense oxide layer that’s well bonded to the base metal. I looked it up, as I didn’t know, either. 😘🙃
With a few modifications he would've actually made an excellent slug trap, or a hedgehog home! For a slug trap you'd just need some small one inch openings around the base and then pop a low dish full of dark beer in there overnight. The slugs will seek out the beer and drown themselves in it (what a way to go!) and they will like it being dark and moist underneath the pot as well. For a hedghog home you'd need a bigger opening obviously (they like longer, narrow, tube-like openings) and then stuff some straw in there.
Kiln elements build up an oxide layer when they heat up. This helps fortify the elements and protect them during subsequent firings. If you were to fire new elements with pottery inside the kiln, your elements would be competing with your ceramic for the oxygen and cause the oxide layer to be uneven, potentially causing weak points during future fires.
wow, thanks for this explanation! Pinning it :)
Make a pot that looks like a tophat😊
“The best medicine for the garden is the gardener” I always put seating in the garden because even if I go sit there to relax I inadvertently start weeding or harvesting etc
that's a lovely quote! I got the idea for creating a seating area in my garden from @huwrichards. Such a brilliant concept!
I feel like a cardboard replica of the interior of the kiln to slip over these projects to check sizing would be so helpful
🤔 so smart!
Oh yeah! That's genius
Easy to fold and store! Very clever👍
THANK YOU for the shout out to Mudtools and the gofundme campaign. They absolutely make the best tools and hopefully the ceramic community can come together to support them.
Also, great video. Love watching the troubleshooting- makes me feel better about all my f-ups. 😂
looks like they just reached their goal! 🥳
Mudtools!!
after i got a bigger kiln, i started to think bigger too! i really thought i was going to regret buying a bigger kiln but there was a local sale of one and i just went for it! all of a sudden, having that bigger space made it so that i could be more free in the way i thought of designs and possibilities! just my experience!
love your videos!
Aww, what a cute little ghost guy for the "ghost fire" banner...
Oh wow, the stool got so much darker when it fired! And what a guy it is! Like a big big pot, with a nose, for sitting! So round... I think he looks so sweet standing guard over the plants. A short round friend who is here to help.
Pretty sure my plants will grow way nicer with his help ❤️
My Grandfather would always cut a 1.5 inch wide and 5 or 6 inch long slot in any stool he made to make it easier to pick up
He is so cute!!!! He also looks like a guardian of the garden. Love how he came out!!
He's so great! This one was a journey. I picture you continuously moving him here and there, just so he gets to see all the things going on in your yard and garden through the seasons.
that is so cute ❤️
It doesn't matter what you make, I love your videos. UA-cam puts them at the top of my feed cuz I watch every single one of them. Your projects are always so creative. I have a bigger kiln than yours but I rarely fill it. This video has inspired me to make my own garden stools. Thanks for tackling unique and different projects for each video!
that is so kind of you to share! I think that's what I'm worried about investing in a bigger kiln-- I'd keep the smaller for when I can't fill it, and the bigger one will sit unused 360 days out of the year 🤷♀️
I can’t get enough of your videos! As awesome as I think it would be to pick up pottery as a hobby, I have too many as it is. I love watching passionate craftspeople though and always find something useful to apply to my crafts of choice in your videos. Thanks for all the wonderful videos you make!
I started pottery because of you! Always wanted to try and when I showed your video to my husband he gave me classes as a gift! I love it so much!
The chair is so cute!
this is SO cool to hear! 🥰
One reason I love your videos is because you show the struggle & troubleshooting! Thank you for sharing these!! I've been wanting to make a stool after seeing one of the resident artists at my community art school make stools (that he put in a wood firing!). Keep on making awesome things!
The moment when you flipped it and immediately realised it wasn't dry enough - ohhhhh relatable content!!! Every potter has felt that feeling before 😭😅 I really appreciate all the wins and learns in your journey! Thanks for sharing. This stool is wonderful!
Thank you! I swear I do this every time with big pots 😂
I was flipping through a book with my daughters about ancient civilization and there was a cup with marks like the ones from your shredding tool. So I told my daughter that I could tell that they had a wheel to make that cup. It could've just been trimmed on a turn table, like you do here, but the lines were too parallel to have been done another way.
I love him! I really like it in both settings, and the beauty of it is that you can move him around! I love that you persevere through your constraints and challenges to make things work for you! ❤
For a second at 22:47 I thought you were going to say "since it's going to be in the garden I want it to be able to see the view". xD
That is the most friend-shaped stool I've ever seen❤
I really appreciate your boosting mudtools and helping them recover from Helene. It's been really rough for a lot of folks, businesses included, in the path of the storm. My house is leaning and my uncle died, both from the storm, and I think I'm still one of the luckier ones. One poor guy lost 11 family members. Anyway, thanks for helping. And maybe get yourself a paddle before your next big coil build. 😊
So cute! Love when you show how it really is, with plans you have to alter, things to fix. You just keep going with the bump and a smile. The way to go!
Your stool is adorable. Thank you for the video. As others have written, it is great to see how you troubleshoot. I appreciate how authentic you are!
A very bushy plant would look like hair, maybe 😊
Also, I'm glad you mentioned the GoFundMe pages.
Love the stool! I think he should roam around :) Just getting back into clay. Your tutorials / videos are extremely helpful and inspiring. Thank you and Tschuss!
not to be crazy but i was just looking at your page to see if you've posted!!!! so excited to watch this
yay!! thanks for watching ❤️
Gorgeous, he looks wonderful next to the changing leaves and will look even better in the winter garden. I love how you're not afraid to push the size to its limits.
Love this video! Thank you for sharing the process, even when it gets complicated (by having to do impromptu electrical work). I'm not a potter, but I always enjoy your videos. Hope you are doing well!
thanks for watching!!
There's just this timeless beauty to fired pottery! And it doesn't make it worse, when it has a cute face :)
I adore him as a stool/garden sculpture and the whimsy is everything! I want 3 in different sizes!! ❤
Seriously, leaving the comment section to research making that happen. Pure joy
It came out so good! I love that you take us through how you deal with issues that arise during the process - super helpful!
Yes, please do a video on making face mugs! Too cute!
Thank you for the video! i would LOVE LOVE LOVE a video on everything to do with the kiln. How to turn on, program a bisque firing , glaze firing, an explanation to “elements” really appreciated the brief dive into the kiln repair
This makes me want to give coil building a big planter another try 🤔 I think he looks cute all over, but especially in the garden
big pots are so fun to make 😄
He's so cute! I have tried building big but mine always collapse. What clay body do you use for these big projects? Do you have a video where you talk about it?
I’m still a beginner, but in a workshop I attended the teacher said that the key thing in coil building bigger pieces is to have clay with at least 40% grog, then it can hold the shape better. Also letting it dry a bit after adding a few coils helps too. (I found the clay with more grog to dry a bit quicker.) Some students were also advised to use crumbled paper to support any protruding parts. Hope it helps!
29:00 ohmigosh, it’s DARLING 🧡🤩🧡
I’m currently building a new studio. I think this might be my first project in the new studio. Some clay chairs have been living rent free in my head and this seems much more doable.
how fun! Love setting up a new space ❤️
He turned out so stinking cute - i love it!!!
Really enjoyed the video as always. If someone hasn’t mentioned already. You can heat up sections of your kiln elements with a blow torch and then manipulate them back into place more easily. Use tongs or something else to protect your hands.
oh I didn't know that!! Thanks for the tip. Googling where to buy a blow torch now 😂😂
Turned out great, very cute. Thanks for letting us know about mudtools, we all use them, let's all try and help them.
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Nice, if you wanted to you could always build a second piece (like a pedestal) to raise it up a little. P.S. you may not be an electrician but thanks for showing us how you replaced the elements, and the info on ghost firing to oxidize them.
So good your videos inspire me to take up pottery and ceramics it’s been since my high school course that I haven’t touched clay and I’m now 32 yo
🎉🎉🎉 Wow! Such a nice stool! Your garden is amazing! Good job! 🎉🎉🎉
He's adorable! He's probably a great slug habitat, which means you can use him to thin their numbers. Turn him over in the morning and pluck 'em out and drop them in soapy water.
If it weren’t for your syntax I’d assume you were British- Where in the world are you that slugs are that much of a problem?
I love this! Gonna try to make a stool for my garden now. ❤ Thank you! I also just bought a kiln and your short tutorial on replacing the elements was awesome!
The grooves & uneven sides will help moss grow on the outside making it part of the garden
Your so awesome!! I love watching your trial and error process!! Your work is beautiful and unique just like you!
Now I'm the 50th comment how cool
On a real note though this channel is so underrated the quality of entertainment is top tier and paced brilliantly
It's always interesting I also like the way the cuts are edited so that you see what's happening in less time that's done great
Also that stool looks awesome
Thanks so much for this! Passing it on to my editor ❤️
Can i stop holding my breath now, oh my, what a ride that was. I too love my shredding tool, early in when my pots were heavy and thick, i could trim away, however i now see that its a lazy way, for me, to throw, so now stuff is getting thinner, ive gone through a few bottoms and or walls. the original turn over was heart stopping and also getting stuck in the kiln, i like the shape pre beating with a wooden form, still looks good, great 'spark' moment for changing elements, bonus section for all kiln owners. Nice size garden for your dog and growing veggies. Like the dark colour of your cooked head, Stool, sorry were past Halloween now. great job and in proportion to the stool size the nose was perfect x
The texture from the slapping looked great!
Your mom's gone love it. I think it's spectacular 🎉
Great vidéo!
Always a pleasure to follow you through your projects
I loved the wooden spoon slapping!
the best part of art class, watching people who have skill and an idea do clay work. lovely.
I would love to buy some face mugs from you!! :)
If I have time I will make some for the holidays. Let's see if I manage! 😄
Great video as always. Sharing the struggles and the wins with us all, thank you.
I bet the stool will end up all over the yard, as you need here and there.
I really liked the texture right after it was slapped a lot
i have been making little things out of clay since i discovered your channel! i use air dry clay because i'm just playing, basically. but i'm learning a lot from you, and watching you do your thing is interesting and relaxing :)
my favorite project so far was i made two dragon egg-shaped bookends for my friend's birthday, i painted them after they dried, and she loved them! thank you for encouraging us to make things with our hands. i'm going to try making more expressive pieces next
that is really cool! Nothing wrong with air dry clay for sculptural work. I'm glad my videos are helpful for you!
i always get so excited when i see that you've posted! what a tremendous effort this was. amazing job :)
thank you! ❤️❤️
oh god yes, please do more face cups and mugs. i would love to buy one
🤩your lovely crocheted jacket 🎉🎉🎉
Love this. Turned out so well and loved seeing your garden. Now I want you to get a bigger kiln to make bigger ones!
Great video. Love the idea of making a stool for the garden. I so enjoy watching the project evolve, even with the issues you ran into. Makes you real. 😊
thank you! ❤️
This is a fantastic project! Also it's so funny that you've assimilated "quite some days", the most Germglish of all phrases :)
Your handling of the elements is amazing! Respect!
Reminds me of the art from Felicia Chiao! Very lovely!
Hello Mia! Your videos give me more courage for my pottery projects! Thank you!!!🤩🤪💥💫🤕😁😍
that is so great to hear! ❤️💪
Have you ever thought of making a template of your kiln with strips of cardboard to have instead of always lifting these big projects? It could be made colapsable so storing would be easy. He turned out adorable.
I'm confused. Wouldn't that catch fire inside the kiln?
It seems like an octagon made out of wood or cardboard strips would work. If you can fit the hoop over the pot, it’s good.
@@ElsDaughter She wouldnt fire the template it would be just to help her keep her big projects within size without having to risk the project or her back multipul times to see if it fit
OK THIS IS GENIUS
seriously doing this... 😂
I've seen porcelain garden stools but those are slip cast. They're also called drum stools.
10:48 not sure if you do this often, but if so, you could get an 'Instrument Holding Arm' / 'Articulated Arm' (like they use in laboratories) to hold the knife perfectly steady for you. They sell pretty cheap ones online that would be perfect.
Love this series, it’s so fun trying other people’s style of work
Lately I have been watching some video's about traditional Korean pottery and certain large jars are made this way. Very interesting! :)
17:54 - Yes, I also find that there are few problems that can't be fixed by slapping something with a wooden spoon.
Yes the struggle is real. Small kiln vs larger kiln….. mine is smaller too, but would take forever to truly pack a larger one.
I loves hims….. 💜.
So, all this time I have been planning on doing all you have shone us, and as I’m watching this one I thought….. ugh I have a thermal coupler that I now have to consider for room. 🤦🏻♀️☹️
Wow, absolutely fantastic, you are such an inspiration, thank you so much for posting these videos 🥰
You are incredible!!!🎉
11:55 my teachers advice would be "go back in time and tell yourself dont do that"
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Great work!!!! Congratulations 🥳😃👍
Special project, unique in its own way 😊 beautiful chair 👍🙂
Thank you! 😊
@@PotterytothePeople you're welcome 🙏
You can always add a base for the stool at a later date if the height is bothering you
I really enjoyed this video ❤ Thanks for keeping me company while I'm in bed sick!
get well soon!
You did a great job! Love it.
make him a top hat flower pot! :O! He can be such a distinguished gentleman!
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i would definitely buy a slim, high vase that looks curiously at the plants placed in it
I just ordered a green rib and I got it quickly from Etsy. They are still doing business in an efficient manner. Some sculptors use the green rib to smooth surfaces.
He’s super great!!
Do try to keep the raking stripes, it'd really make the form stand out like cross hatching on a drawing, especially on a big item like this! Tiny nose just makes him look even bigger imo, so cute!
So cute!!! I love him!!
Oh no I love it so much, but my kiln is so small! I guess I’ll be making my kid the coolest garden set in my 40l kiln 😂
thank you for sharing. I love your channel.
You can blowtorch the section of the element and then push it in when it's glowing orange! to avoid the breaking!
Nifty! I'd build a wood (or ceramic, why not?) tripod with a platform just below the point where the tripod would fit snugly inside the first piece, so it can't slide around and would be taller.
Your stool makes me smile, so cute. Thank you for the Midtools gofundme link, I love their tools and would like to help.
I adore how cute you are, the way you do stuff, love it! obv love the clay work!
Thank you ❤️
I am really intrigued by this build, and love the whole thing. I am wondering how much weight something like this could hold, after all as a stool people will sit on it. Any ideas? And - wow, thanks for the mudtools shoutout, I love their products and videos. We need to help each other out and you are very classy for the tag. xox
I love him! Perfect scarecrow! 🐨👍
I really loved the texture the spoon slapping created. Do you ever use that as a texture in a piece?
Every time you pick up and turn the pot over it stresses me out so bad. As a fellow ceramic artist, the thought of dropping a coil pot that big really scares me. I'm amazed you managed it multiple times without ruining it
I love Mudd tools
Absolutely love this project!
thank you!!
Kiln elements oxidize to form an alumina oxide layer around the core, which helps protect the element and make it last longer. The goal is to create a uniform, dense oxide layer that’s well bonded to the base metal.
I looked it up, as I didn’t know, either. 😘🙃
I think it would look good IN the birdbath... Like a head on a neck coming out of the ground... Make yourself another birdbath...😉
With a few modifications he would've actually made an excellent slug trap, or a hedgehog home!
For a slug trap you'd just need some small one inch openings around the base and then pop a low dish full of dark beer in there overnight. The slugs will seek out the beer and drown themselves in it (what a way to go!) and they will like it being dark and moist underneath the pot as well.
For a hedghog home you'd need a bigger opening obviously (they like longer, narrow, tube-like openings) and then stuff some straw in there.