The beautiful thing about this is every piece has it own fingerprint and cannot be replecated not one is the same...every piece has its own unique features
I love this, great work T&T :) do you have any resolutions this year? I really hope one of them is "more videos" because this is one of my favourite channels on yt!
I was on this channel just a few days ago, checking for updates... I wondered when the next full video would be out. I checked to make sure the notifications were actually on, and was just quietly looking at the last medium length videos you posted. I was wondering how do I (as a viewer) gently encourage you to create more unique content without making it low-key pestering (as an audience not directly involved in the creation of your work). And soon, I get a notification from the channel. To that I say: "Alhamdulillah" . :) I know pottery is a major focus of this channel, but I wondered if you intended to revisit some literary and philosophical-themed subjects? I think you share insights and takes that seldom appear on YT. They are needed. Would you be encouraged to continue those kinds of videos? (At all...) __ Happy new year by the way, to both you and the viewers on this channel!
Happy new year to you, friend! Thank you for the kind and not at all pestering words of encouragement. I truly appreciate it. Yes, I will be making more videos about literature and philosophy this year! I'm excited to do so. There will still be many pottery videos, but also many on broader topics. My goal is to publish a new video every week. I am also going to publish more written essays and articles, which require no less effort than videos (for an obsessive writer such as myself), but can be published without consideration for the visual element (often challenging with the more abstract topics). Those will be found on either my website (benshane.com) or my new Substack (Tinker & Think). Both are rather bare at the moment, but will see weekly updates this year, alongside this channel. I haven't determined which (my personal website or the existing platform of Substack) will be best for readers. Hopefully when they are fleshed out more, I'll receive enough feedback to know where to focus my written efforts. And, when I can, I'll publish some of those pieces here on YT as visual essays. Thanks 🙏
@@tinkerandthink That sounds like an exciting plan. I hope that it all works out as intended. Weekly posting (while a treat for us), is some serious commitment! I appreciate the intention to get this channel growing in a number of ways rather than let it fizzle out (as some creatives on YT can, for a number of legitimate reasons). I will watch out for both the videos and the essays in the weeks to come. TY for your comprehensive response btw! I found it helpful. Stay safe and blessed always. :)
Hello l have a old backyard furnace l am thinking to make it into a wood fired pottery kiln.. l am guessing the highest temperature would be glowing Orange? Would these glaze work? Or ls the temperature too low ? Thankyou for your time ❤
Hard to give any specific advice without seeing the material you're working with. But generally, small wood kilns can fire very hot, up to white heat. Check out Lisa Orr and her rocket kiln design, or the fast fire kiln at Oxford University Kilns.
I have seen a technique for firing pottery that includes burying it underneath wood shavings or straw. Some day I wish to experiment and see what it might do to soak the different burial material in sea water several times, letting it dry out between soakings and then burry the pottery to fire. I wonder if that would even work?
I wonder if dunking then letting it dry repeatedly would cause the moisture to draw out of the clay too much and cause cracks or dryness. If someone tries this technique though, im super interested in seeing the final product!
@@SunValen Oh, I didn’t mean soaking the clay. I meant soaking the wood shavings or straw so that it soaks up sea salt. Just wondering if it would react like salt glazing, or come out very different.
Barrel firing or smoke firing. Sumi von Dassow has a great book that covers these. In this kind of firing, the pottery has to be fired already, because it doesn't actually get hot enough to mature the clay (unlike a pit fire, like in my earlier video). Barrel/smoke firing is purely a decorative process, where the fuel smolders and smokes, and the clay absorbs smoke. Salt in that case will produce colors, but not a glaze (again, it just isn't hot enough). Salt is often used in pit firing and barrel firing for color.
Beautiful potteries with great length of effort into making them! Recently just keen to learn more about the difference between soda and salt firing. Thank you. PS: Wonder any potter/s ever tried sea water? Possible?
Salt and soda do the same thing: they contain sodium which melts the silica in the clay to form a glaze. But differences in application and other factors mean they have distinct looks in the end. They're like siblings. Same basic makeup, similar qualities, but unique from each other. Regarding salt water: there's no need to apply salt in a water solution. Soda is often dissolved in water and sprayed because the water helps release the sodium (though I have applied soda dry to good effect, too). But salt is very volatile in the kiln when it is dry, and I've never heard of anyone using a salt solution rather than dry salt.
They were salt glazing pottery here in the states since the first kilns were built here. Thats what I want to make after I get my kiln built, no fake crap..just salt
I hurt someone's feelings with a comment that is now deleted... I wonder what it was? The algo kicked this vid back up. Remind me what it was I said so i know where i crossed the line for y'all!
@@tinkerandthinkcan I try this at home but I want to fire it outside in a pit? Will it turn out glossy still? I need answers, I am supper excited!!!😂😂
I'll be publishing a full video covering all of the details in a few weeks. One important detail to know now, before trying: salt is caustic, and repeated salt firings will destroy any kiln much, MUCH faster than normal gas reduction firings. And, if the gas kiln is soft brick, NEVER add salt to it. It will destroy the bricks right away. Oh (a third essential detail), as mentioned in the reply above, once you add salt to a kiln, every firing after will get some salt (from what attaches to the bricks inside), and thus you will never get a "normal" gas firing in that kiln, because it will always have some residual salt vapor.
Wonderful! I'm so stoked at seeing this new video bud; I've been missing your content! Looking forward to more salt-glaze & beyond. Keep it comin'! 😊
The beautiful thing about this is every piece has it own fingerprint and cannot be replecated not one is the same...every piece has its own unique features
Love your videos! Please keep making them!!
I love this, great work T&T :) do you have any resolutions this year? I really hope one of them is "more videos" because this is one of my favourite channels on yt!
Thanks so much! 🙏 Absolutely, the goal is to publish a new video each week this year. Hope you like them 🤞
Now this is awesome 🔥😍 thanks for sharing!
Incredible gorgeous work! Astonishing! Thank you so much for bringing this to us 🙏 looking forward to the next videos on this subject thank you 🔥💗✨
looking forward to a full video on the salt glazing
I was on this channel just a few days ago, checking for updates... I wondered when the next full video would be out. I checked to make sure the notifications were actually on, and was just quietly looking at the last medium length videos you posted. I was wondering how do I (as a viewer) gently encourage you to create more unique content without making it low-key pestering (as an audience not directly involved in the creation of your work). And soon, I get a notification from the channel. To that I say: "Alhamdulillah" . :)
I know pottery is a major focus of this channel, but I wondered if you intended to revisit some literary and philosophical-themed subjects? I think you share insights and takes that seldom appear on YT. They are needed.
Would you be encouraged to continue those kinds of videos? (At all...)
__
Happy new year by the way, to both you and the viewers on this channel!
Happy new year to you, friend! Thank you for the kind and not at all pestering words of encouragement. I truly appreciate it.
Yes, I will be making more videos about literature and philosophy this year! I'm excited to do so. There will still be many pottery videos, but also many on broader topics. My goal is to publish a new video every week.
I am also going to publish more written essays and articles, which require no less effort than videos (for an obsessive writer such as myself), but can be published without consideration for the visual element (often challenging with the more abstract topics). Those will be found on either my website (benshane.com) or my new Substack (Tinker & Think). Both are rather bare at the moment, but will see weekly updates this year, alongside this channel. I haven't determined which (my personal website or the existing platform of Substack) will be best for readers. Hopefully when they are fleshed out more, I'll receive enough feedback to know where to focus my written efforts.
And, when I can, I'll publish some of those pieces here on YT as visual essays. Thanks 🙏
@@tinkerandthink That sounds like an exciting plan. I hope that it all works out as intended.
Weekly posting (while a treat for us), is some serious commitment! I appreciate the intention to get this channel growing in a number of ways rather than let it fizzle out (as some creatives on YT can, for a number of legitimate reasons).
I will watch out for both the videos and the essays in the weeks to come. TY for your comprehensive response btw! I found it helpful.
Stay safe and blessed always. :)
Wonderful video.
Very cool! Cheers🤗
❤❤❤ amazing video! Thank you.
Do you use different salts; pink, black, gray, green?
Hello l have a old backyard furnace l am thinking to make it into a wood fired pottery kiln.. l am guessing the highest temperature would be glowing Orange?
Would these glaze work? Or ls the temperature too low ?
Thankyou for your time ❤
Hard to give any specific advice without seeing the material you're working with. But generally, small wood kilns can fire very hot, up to white heat. Check out Lisa Orr and her rocket kiln design, or the fast fire kiln at Oxford University Kilns.
@@tinkerandthink Thankyou
can you get different results if you use salts besides ordinary table salt? Like potassium chloride perhaps? Just curious
I love the salt fired pottery.
Hoping to make my own salt kiln one day
I have seen a technique for firing pottery that includes burying it underneath wood shavings or straw.
Some day I wish to experiment and see what it might do to soak the different burial material in sea water several times, letting it dry out between soakings and then burry the pottery to fire.
I wonder if that would even work?
I wonder if dunking then letting it dry repeatedly would cause the moisture to draw out of the clay too much and cause cracks or dryness. If someone tries this technique though, im super interested in seeing the final product!
@@SunValen Oh, I didn’t mean soaking the clay. I meant soaking the wood shavings or straw so that it soaks up sea salt. Just wondering if it would react like salt glazing, or come out very different.
Barrel firing or smoke firing. Sumi von Dassow has a great book that covers these. In this kind of firing, the pottery has to be fired already, because it doesn't actually get hot enough to mature the clay (unlike a pit fire, like in my earlier video). Barrel/smoke firing is purely a decorative process, where the fuel smolders and smokes, and the clay absorbs smoke.
Salt in that case will produce colors, but not a glaze (again, it just isn't hot enough). Salt is often used in pit firing and barrel firing for color.
@@tinkerandthink ah, gotcha. Thank you for that information.
Beautiful potteries with great length of effort into making them! Recently just keen to learn more about the difference between soda and salt firing. Thank you. PS: Wonder any potter/s ever tried sea water? Possible?
Salt and soda do the same thing: they contain sodium which melts the silica in the clay to form a glaze. But differences in application and other factors mean they have distinct looks in the end. They're like siblings. Same basic makeup, similar qualities, but unique from each other.
Regarding salt water: there's no need to apply salt in a water solution. Soda is often dissolved in water and sprayed because the water helps release the sodium (though I have applied soda dry to good effect, too). But salt is very volatile in the kiln when it is dry, and I've never heard of anyone using a salt solution rather than dry salt.
@@tinkerandthink Thank you
thank you
Fascinating
They were salt glazing pottery here in the states since the first kilns were built here.
Thats what I want to make after I get my kiln built, no fake crap..just salt
I hurt someone's feelings with a comment that is now deleted... I wonder what it was? The algo kicked this vid back up. Remind me what it was I said so i know where i crossed the line for y'all!
Can you eat and drink from salt glazed pottery?
Absolutely! I do so every day. All the usual caveats apply, but there is nothing inherently dangerous about salt-glazed pots.
@@tinkerandthinkcan I try this at home but I want to fire it outside in a pit?
Will it turn out glossy still?
I need answers, I am supper excited!!!😂😂
@@TheDimsml so we need fire that is above 1000C°?
@@Proo_peace i need answers
Thats what we need in this world: honesty
Wow, interesting!!!
Just wait for the video that explains everything in more detail! I think salt glazing is fascinating
they seem to be doing this indoors and without safety equipment. isn't hydrogen chloride is incredibly toxic?
They are doing it outside. There is a shed over the kiln. Yes it is very toxic. Some use sodium bicarbonate instead to avoid chlorine.
i want to know more about this i have my gas killing
once used for salt glazing thats probably all you can fire in your kiln
I'll be publishing a full video covering all of the details in a few weeks. One important detail to know now, before trying: salt is caustic, and repeated salt firings will destroy any kiln much, MUCH faster than normal gas reduction firings. And, if the gas kiln is soft brick, NEVER add salt to it. It will destroy the bricks right away. Oh (a third essential detail), as mentioned in the reply above, once you add salt to a kiln, every firing after will get some salt (from what attaches to the bricks inside), and thus you will never get a "normal" gas firing in that kiln, because it will always have some residual salt vapor.