Please do not break the donut tea pot! Its so beautiful! Maybe you can fix it using like a DIY Kintsugi technique or something. Gold accents would go so well with it!
If you do smash the circle tea uppot you should keep all the pieces and put it back together with gold epoxy. Like kintsugi but with epoxy. Unusable but still really cool.
LOVE that retirement gift planter! Such a wonderful, useful, long lasting, personal, reminder of a long and useful career. And, don't you always put something under all of your pieces? Someone suggested grinding down the base until it sits level..... brilliant, I think. :)
Two things, first, in reference to your "background" I really like that you didn't wait until you had the perfect studio to start filming your videos. I work in my kitchen. Usually, it's pretty clean in here but sometimes there are dishes in the sink or the stove top isn't exactly clean. It has held me back from filming many times. It's something that I probably shouldn't worry about as much as I do. After all, we all have dirty dishes sometimes. Second, I like the shape of the wedding mugs. Those came out really nice.
Hey man I understand the feeling of when you've worked so hard on something new and it comes out bad or defected, it gives you a sick feeling I bet, but that's what great craftsmanship is all about and if we never made a mistake or if a project never went wrong then we wouldn't be real craftsmen/women now would we lol, I love this channel so keep up your good work. AND DONT SMASH IT, IT'S STILL GORGEOUS
The doughnut teapot breaking proves that your human and everything isn't perfect all the time. I think that thing that makes hand done crafts special is the imperfections. A mass produced mug with but "perfect" but it will lack any heart. If you smash the doughnut teapot it will break our hearts because we still see the beauty in the imperfections. Huh I must be emotional today. I enjoy watching your videos and I love the way the glaze settled into the lines of the craved mugs. You're giving me some ideas. :) The marbled clay is the bomb.com I can't wait to see a video on how you did that.
Oh i'm excited for so many of those new glazes you're showing! Especially the bowls that you showed but couldn't share about yet. The greens you're getting and the drips! GORG! Definitely make a video of smashing pottery. As I've gone on my own pottery journey, learning to let go of pieces at any stage in the process has been so cathartic. I now LOVE smashing pieces that just fail for whatever reason. It's such a good lesson in creativity and letting go. I mean yes, I've spent days super bummed about glaze results that just do NOT meet expectations. But I think it's making me a better artist to go through it. So i'd love to see you smash the donut tea pot and any other pieces you've got laying around that just don't make the cut. Cheers! Brooke
Teapot crazy beautiful ,your work is EFFIN GORGEOUS .....i just recently got a serious appreciation for pottery.how did i live so long without collecting pottery ill never know.
That teapot is amazing. I would love to give it a fantastic home! I also love that the glaze reacted differently then what you expected. Making it true oh unique!
Great video. Thanks for the demo. Loving my tumbler that came the other day from your kickstarter. Looks even better in person than online. Love the swirls. Makes it so easy to hold
I am LOVING that blue glaze! So beautiful! I'm sorry about you tea pot Jon! It's still beautiful though!😊 Your shop is really coming along, so excited!
Despite the teapot getting broke on the bottom, the glaze turned out *amazing*. If I were you, I wouldn't have the heart to break it, cuz it looks too beautiful! Also, out of curiousity, have you ever tried glazes that are purple? Or blue and purple combinations?
I thing the red stone clay with the kind of blueish glaze is the best! It looks awesome! I'm following you for a long time and this little thing blown my mind!
Too much hard work and materials put in to your work to smash it. There is a seat for every ass in this world and somebody would love that broken piece. #me100% I would love that beautiful broken piece. Nothing an artist creates should be smashed unless you're plan is to glue the parts back together and use it for something else. :) you're too talented!
I know you are bummed but don’t be. I think the tea pot is still amazing. OMG that ball is awesome. Love the colour of those bowls. Yep I love everything!
Ok, I'm brand new to youre channel but I am in love with your work! It makes me want to permanently move to MN and apprentice with you. Asks personally, I LOVE how the glazing turned out on the teapot. I know it's not what your were going for but it's so unique. I'm just sorry the base broke.
Jon, I can see those little ball done in all difference glazes with some with carving and some plain in a wooden or pottery bowl. It would make a really pretty center piece on a table. Or, special place card holder at a dinner table with names written on them. Can you grind down the base and make a small stand for the tea pot to sit in or even secure it to the tea pot. Just a thought. I hate to think of you smashing it. Ugh!
Awesome teapot. Nothing wrong with smashing it, but it would also make a great decoration on a shelf in your studio or in Mocha Monkey! Looks like for whatever reason, that spot of glaze didn't adhere to the first glaze. Wish I had a clue on that one for you. And I do have to throw in my own little opinion about crazing. You are so right, it's a bit controversial in the clay world. But I do find that most everyone agrees that the cracks hold onto bacteria and stains. If tea or coffee is in it a lot, those cracks WILL turn brown permanently. And the thought of bacteria is just....nope. I threw away a whole set of dishes because they were completely crazed and stained brown. I won't chance the bacteria factor. So anytime I have a glaze that I know crazes, but I really like it, I only use it on decorative pieces and never on anything that another person would be tempted to use with food.
Sooo... That same issue happened to me that a glaze just dropped off my pot. I'm sorry about your luck, but as a baby potter I'm feel better that you don't know what happened either haha! I was a huge bowl too :( So Iv'e kept it and I'm going to use it as an indoor planter! :D
I wouldn't be to bummed about the foot break. The pot was a complete success. Use your diamond grinding disk things to just grind down the foot to something more minimal. No one but us would ever know.
The teapot is great - I would have a carpenter make a smooth base (sleeve) out of a beautiful dark wood, lathe-turned, and hide the crack by epoxying it into the wood base.
Don't smash it! Try trimming thebottom with the grid like you do with the mugs when they have a lil pump. It still looks beautiful. Don't worry jon everything looks great. Keep up the beautiful work
I have a feeling your creamcolourglaze dropped off befor you even fired it. It was to do with your application, I find with some glazes if you let the first glaze dry to much befor the second glaze goes on that start to peel / shrink away from each other after about 15mins of the second glaze being put , doesn’t happen if you put the second glaze on quickly after first glaze as soon as is touch dry.
That seems quite likely. I think, had it dripped in molten form, it would have landed on the lower part of the doughnut. But if it flaked/ chunked off, while still "raw", it would have just bounced off the lower part, without leaving much of a mark.
Here's a question for you can you use borosilicate glass or say soda glass to do what you do with those coasters? I have a ton of lab glass that's either cracked or completely broken I don't know why I haven't thrown it out but I haven't
I can't believe that Mayco told you crazing is normal! It's obviously not the end of the world, but if the clay body and glaze fit well, crazing isn't an issue. Sure, some glazes are formulated to craze, but unless it specifically says it I wouldn't consider it normal. And I'm totally for smashing pieces if they have massive chips or glaze defects. Better to just move on instead of mourning the piece or trying to fix it, in my opinion!
Would it be possible to grind the bottom of the teapot? It would be a lot more labor than when there is just a little glaze on the bottom, it would be essentially reshaping the base... But could it be done?
Hello Jon, I am so very new to the clay pottery world started working with air dry clay. Bumped it up to working with Rocky Mtn clay I'm a native of Colorado so I'm happy to have one of the best clays around to purchase. I don't have a kiln (yet) can I use my oven, or a clay pot BBQ grill? I really feel stupid asking this question. I'm thinking I could just dig a hole in the ground and bury my pots that way like they did in ancient times. Absolutely dig your UA-cam Channel. 🥀
Is it possible the base of the teapot cracked because of tension during shrinkage when firing? I know putting sand on your kiln shelves for larger pieces allows for unimpeded shrinkage; the clay at the base is allowed to drag/slide on the kiln shelves much more easily, instead of cracking/
The blue mugs in this video reminds me of a glazed teardrop shape vessel I made a long time ago!! 😄 Hey Jonthepotter, Can you please make a vessel that looks like teardrop? 💧
Do you know the temperature it has been on, when the power cut happed? Maybe glaze hasn't been liquid, but dusty and fall of? Just the toplayer... In German OT school I've been tought "no cracks for foodcontact". Would LOVE to learn more about "when is this good for food" Greets
Interesting theory, on the pot. From my experience, with any underfired glazes I've had, they just harden, and don't change color. But yeah, something like that scenario, could have totally happened. That's one of the downsides, to computer controlled kilns. If you lose power, they have to be restarted. With a manual kiln, with a kiln sitter, it would kick back on, once the power is restored.
I would love to see the teapot used! It’s so beautiful! It makes me wonder how functional it is. Like would you have to use an open flame on the bottom or would the base convey heat to the vessel on an electric cooktop. Because of its shape it doesn’t seem like a ton of water would make contact with the heated area so how long would it be to boil the water. Would the whole thing get hot if so would you burn yourself trying to hold it. Maybe the way you use it is to boil water in another vessel and transfer it to this one. It would be really cool to know if it’s just a display piece or if it could be functional Is my point, because it looks amazing!
*Most* ceramic teapots are meant only for serving the tea, not boiling it. The water and tea leaves are added, in the pot, then served. Most ceramic bodies can't tolerate direct heat, like a flame, or any cook top. The vitrified structure can't transfer the energy fast enough, and thermal shock occurs, causing it to crack. There are clay bodies, meant for this, calles "flameware". I've not seen a lot of potters use such a body, because metal just does a better job, at dealing with direct heat, so we use it instead of ceramic, for such purposes.
Please do smash it. I think it would satisfying to take about your frustration with what went wrong with this particular firing and then make a new one! And everyone else, if you guys are potters you know shit happens! You can't get so emotionally attached to what amounts to a failure. You try something it fails you try it again and it's more successful or even cooler than you thought it would be. I would be stoked to see a combo video of you trying again and the finished result with a satisfying dropping and or smashing of the failed one. It's what I would do 😈😉
Please do not break the donut tea pot! Its so beautiful! Maybe you can fix it using like a DIY Kintsugi technique or something. Gold accents would go so well with it!
Please don't smash it, it's still beautiful! You could make a video on how to repair pieces that have been cracked/broken
I agree that pot is so pretty and I love that glazing. It would be sad to see it broken.
You can’t fix cracks once it gets bone dry, even less when it’s already fired
Yeah dont break it, I like how it came out. By any chance you do custom mugs to ship?
@@osmanyreyes8373 he could shave it down
Wabi sabi
If you haven't heard the term, google is your friend.
If you do smash the circle tea uppot you should keep all the pieces and put it back together with gold epoxy. Like kintsugi but with epoxy. Unusable but still really cool.
LOVE that retirement gift planter! Such a wonderful, useful, long lasting, personal, reminder of a long and useful career. And, don't you always put something under all of your pieces? Someone suggested grinding down the base until it sits level..... brilliant, I think. :)
Wabi-Sabi... enhance the imperfections. Glue it back together outline the cracks in gold. It's our imperfections that makes us special.
Two things, first, in reference to your "background" I really like that you didn't wait until you had the perfect studio to start filming your videos. I work in my kitchen. Usually, it's pretty clean in here but sometimes there are dishes in the sink or the stove top isn't exactly clean. It has held me back from filming many times. It's something that I probably shouldn't worry about as much as I do. After all, we all have dirty dishes sometimes. Second, I like the shape of the wedding mugs. Those came out really nice.
Hey man I understand the feeling of when you've worked so hard on something new and it comes out bad or defected, it gives you a sick feeling I bet, but that's what great craftsmanship is all about and if we never made a mistake or if a project never went wrong then we wouldn't be real craftsmen/women now would we lol, I love this channel so keep up your good work. AND DONT SMASH IT, IT'S STILL GORGEOUS
The doughnut teapot breaking proves that your human and everything isn't perfect all the time. I think that thing that makes hand done crafts special is the imperfections. A mass produced mug with but "perfect" but it will lack any heart. If you smash the doughnut teapot it will break our hearts because we still see the beauty in the imperfections. Huh I must be emotional today. I enjoy watching your videos and I love the way the glaze settled into the lines of the craved mugs. You're giving me some ideas. :) The marbled clay is the bomb.com I can't wait to see a video on how you did that.
Oh i'm excited for so many of those new glazes you're showing! Especially the bowls that you showed but couldn't share about yet. The greens you're getting and the drips! GORG! Definitely make a video of smashing pottery. As I've gone on my own pottery journey, learning to let go of pieces at any stage in the process has been so cathartic. I now LOVE smashing pieces that just fail for whatever reason. It's such a good lesson in creativity and letting go. I mean yes, I've spent days super bummed about glaze results that just do NOT meet expectations. But I think it's making me a better artist to go through it. So i'd love to see you smash the donut tea pot and any other pieces you've got laying around that just don't make the cut. Cheers! Brooke
I’m in love with the greenish Minnesota mugs at the end of the video!!
Man, those glass coasters are awesome.
I really like how the marble clay cups turned out. Very cool.
Teapot crazy beautiful ,your work is EFFIN GORGEOUS .....i just recently got a serious appreciation for pottery.how did i live so long without collecting pottery ill never know.
You're like the Peter McKinnon for ceramics, love your videos Jon!
Ooooooohhhhhh those new glazes are pretty sweet! The one MN mug looks like a beachy scene. Pretty awesome!
I love that you are testing new glazes that come out amazing, keep up the great work
LOVE the new glazes. The glazed MN is super cool... fun to see all the experiments you try.
Oh bummer on the teapot, is there anyway you can grind the foot and save it? It's so pretty!
Nice work! Love the colors!!
Jon!!! The new glazes are so beautiful and the cuts into those single-handed bowls are stunning.
Lovely objects. The doughnut vessel is still a lovely looking piece 😊
That teapot is amazing. I would love to give it a fantastic home! I also love that the glaze reacted differently then what you expected. Making it true oh unique!
So excited to watch this!! Been excited for it since I saw when you made it! 😄
The teapot is still gorgeous even with the small bit of damage
Your work is amaaaaaazing
Great video. Thanks for the demo. Loving my tumbler that came the other day from your kickstarter. Looks even better in person than online. Love the swirls. Makes it so easy to hold
I am LOVING that blue glaze! So beautiful! I'm sorry about you tea pot Jon! It's still beautiful though!😊
Your shop is really coming along, so excited!
Ohhhhh...I'm so sorry it cracked. I love the canyon skies glaze. It looks great.
The new glaze combinations are awesome!! I just found a new glaze combo in my class recently...it’s awesome when they work out!!!
Despite the teapot getting broke on the bottom, the glaze turned out *amazing*. If I were you, I wouldn't have the heart to break it, cuz it looks too beautiful!
Also, out of curiousity, have you ever tried glazes that are purple? Or blue and purple combinations?
Snap! Your the man. I appreciate all the learning.
My favourite UA-cam potter!!! Such an inspiration.
I thing the red stone clay with the kind of blueish glaze is the best! It looks awesome! I'm following you for a long time and this little thing blown my mind!
Break it in a video! Take your frustrations out on it! I love it by the way, I cant wait to have skills like you!
Oooo I like the swirly clay with the swirly formed tumblers! Cool! Those blue bowls too!!! Break the teapot in a video... but wear eye protection! ♥
Man you're amazing. Love the work.
I love your energy!
Too much hard work and materials put in to your work to smash it. There is a seat for every ass in this world and somebody would love that broken piece. #me100% I would love that beautiful broken piece. Nothing an artist creates should be smashed unless you're plan is to glue the parts back together and use it for something else. :) you're too talented!
I know you are bummed but don’t be. I think the tea pot is still amazing. OMG that ball is awesome. Love the colour of those bowls. Yep I love everything!
There is a therapeutic feeling of throwing pottery against a brick wall.
You can put gold paint around the crack to make it more pretty
Ok, I'm brand new to youre channel but I am in love with your work! It makes me want to permanently move to MN and apprentice with you. Asks personally, I LOVE how the glazing turned out on the teapot. I know it's not what your were going for but it's so unique. I'm just sorry the base broke.
Jon, I can see those little ball done in all difference glazes with some with carving and some plain in a wooden or pottery bowl. It would make a really pretty center piece on a table. Or, special place card holder at a dinner table with names written on them. Can you grind down the base and make a small stand for the tea pot to sit in or even secure it to the tea pot. Just a thought. I hate to think of you smashing it. Ugh!
Do the oriental thing and glue in what bits you have and fill the rest and the cracks with gold. It's a lovely pot.
It looks good
This is amazing I’m in awe that you made that with your hands also he looks like Bradley cooper
Opening the kiln is like opening a package that you have been waiting to arrive
Awesome teapot. Nothing wrong with smashing it, but it would also make a great decoration on a shelf in your studio or in Mocha Monkey! Looks like for whatever reason, that spot of glaze didn't adhere to the first glaze. Wish I had a clue on that one for you. And I do have to throw in my own little opinion about crazing. You are so right, it's a bit controversial in the clay world. But I do find that most everyone agrees that the cracks hold onto bacteria and stains. If tea or coffee is in it a lot, those cracks WILL turn brown permanently. And the thought of bacteria is just....nope. I threw away a whole set of dishes because they were completely crazed and stained brown. I won't chance the bacteria factor. So anytime I have a glaze that I know crazes, but I really like it, I only use it on decorative pieces and never on anything that another person would be tempted to use with food.
Sooo... That same issue happened to me that a glaze just dropped off my pot. I'm sorry about your luck, but as a baby potter I'm feel better that you don't know what happened either haha! I was a huge bowl too :( So Iv'e kept it and I'm going to use it as an indoor planter! :D
I’d still want to buy it. I live the doughnut traits so much!
I get to go unload my kiln in an hour! Whee
I wouldn't be to bummed about the foot break. The pot was a complete success. Use your diamond grinding disk things to just grind down the foot to something more minimal. No one but us would ever know.
If the foot still looks odd with it ground down throw a dish for it to sit on, and claim that its a coaster for the pot to stop drips.
For your next teapot you should put a coil on the inside of the foot. I think it would make it look a lot better :)
Esse trabalho é top show de bola
Have you tried bubble glazing before? I’ve done it multiple times and have been astonished with the results every time.
The teapot is great - I would have a carpenter make a smooth base (sleeve) out of a beautiful dark wood, lathe-turned, and hide the crack by epoxying it into the wood base.
What a fabulous idea the planter is! Shame about the teapot but it still looks amazing.
Ohh excited for the Mayco glazes. They're local to me so I buy a lot of their stuff.
Use a diamond carving tool (dremel ).. re-cut the foot .. maybe add a fitted wood stand for it.
I would love to have that broken glass coasters
Don't smash it! Try trimming thebottom with the grid like you do with the mugs when they have a lil pump. It still looks beautiful. Don't worry jon everything looks great. Keep up the beautiful work
I have a feeling your creamcolourglaze dropped off befor you even fired it. It was to do with your application, I find with some glazes if you let the first glaze dry to much befor the second glaze goes on that start to peel / shrink away from each other after about 15mins of the second glaze being put , doesn’t happen if you put the second glaze on quickly after first glaze as soon as is touch dry.
It might have just ran and instead of dripping down the sides the overhanging opening allowed for it to fall to the shelf.
That seems quite likely. I think, had it dripped in molten form, it would have landed on the lower part of the doughnut. But if it flaked/ chunked off, while still "raw", it would have just bounced off the lower part, without leaving much of a mark.
You remind me strongly of my art teacher.
Edit: Which is a good thing.
Woah Bradly Cooper does pottery?
Maybe if you smash it/break it, you can use the shattered pieces in some other project?
Here's a question for you can you use borosilicate glass or say soda glass to do what you do with those coasters? I have a ton of lab glass that's either cracked or completely broken I don't know why I haven't thrown it out but I haven't
Ugh I really want one
I can't believe that Mayco told you crazing is normal! It's obviously not the end of the world, but if the clay body and glaze fit well, crazing isn't an issue. Sure, some glazes are formulated to craze, but unless it specifically says it I wouldn't consider it normal.
And I'm totally for smashing pieces if they have massive chips or glaze defects. Better to just move on instead of mourning the piece or trying to fix it, in my opinion!
Agreed on both counts. Crazing *can* be used for aesthetic purposes, but it is not meant for functional wares.
Love it nice
Would it be possible to grind the bottom of the teapot? It would be a lot more labor than when there is just a little glaze on the bottom, it would be essentially reshaping the base... But could it be done?
I want the teapot Jon! Just hand it on down to me !
Kintsugi the pot! I bet it would turn out really cool looking
Hello Jon, I am so very new to the clay pottery world started working with air dry clay. Bumped it up to working with Rocky Mtn clay I'm a native of Colorado so I'm happy to have one of the best clays around to purchase. I don't have a kiln (yet) can I use my oven, or a clay pot BBQ grill? I really feel stupid asking this question. I'm thinking I could just dig a hole in the ground and bury my pots that way like they did in ancient times. Absolutely dig your UA-cam Channel. 🥀
Why do I find him so adorable?
Hi Jon. Love your channel, been watching for a while. Wondering what happens to the shelf...scrap it off, flip it over, throw it away? Thx
Good question I was wondering the same thing.
You can use a chisel to chip off the glaze. If that doesn't work when you use an angle grinder. Then you recoat the shelf with kiln wash.
You could try the japanese kintsugi where they fix ceramic ware
Can the bottom of the tea pot be sanded down? Is that even possible? The blue drip glaze on the cups is outstanding.
The tea pot, have you considered just cutting off the broken part? The base looks tall enough that you could cut it off.
I love your new glaze colors! Bummer about the donut. 😢
Nooooooo, don't smash it, don't! I want it! That teapot look sooooo greaaatt
And here's another question you dip that in Matt white yet the white turned out high gloss? How does that work?
Wabi sabi, glue it back together and highlight the repair with gold leaf, as do the Japanese.
It could be a new direction;)
What glazes did you use for the northern lights drip
Definitely smash it!
Дуже дякую! Все що вийшло з печі - це шедевр! Бажаю творчих успіхів і здоров'я! Слава Україні!
Is it possible the base of the teapot cracked because of tension during shrinkage when firing? I know putting sand on your kiln shelves for larger pieces allows for unimpeded shrinkage; the clay at the base is allowed to drag/slide on the kiln shelves much more easily, instead of cracking/
Is there no way to patch or shave down that base to even it out? I don’t know much about pottery.
The blue mugs in this video reminds me of a glazed teardrop shape vessel I made a long time ago!! 😄 Hey Jonthepotter, Can you please make a vessel that looks like teardrop? 💧
the foot must be more dynamic half round or rektangle?
Do you know the temperature it has been on, when the power cut happed? Maybe glaze hasn't been liquid, but dusty and fall of? Just the toplayer...
In German OT school I've been tought "no cracks for foodcontact". Would LOVE to learn more about "when is this good for food"
Greets
Interesting theory, on the pot. From my experience, with any underfired glazes I've had, they just harden, and don't change color. But yeah, something like that scenario, could have totally happened.
That's one of the downsides, to computer controlled kilns. If you lose power, they have to be restarted. With a manual kiln, with a kiln sitter, it would kick back on, once the power is restored.
Could hand saw cut the bottom or sand off
Don't smash..plant the base outside the new studio and let it welcome guests.
I would love to see the teapot used! It’s so beautiful! It makes me wonder how functional it is. Like would you have to use an open flame on the bottom or would the base convey heat to the vessel on an electric cooktop. Because of its shape it doesn’t seem like a ton of water would make contact with the heated area so how long would it be to boil the water. Would the whole thing get hot if so would you burn yourself trying to hold it. Maybe the way you use it is to boil water in another vessel and transfer it to this one. It would be really cool to know if it’s just a display piece or if it could be functional Is my point, because it looks amazing!
*Most* ceramic teapots are meant only for serving the tea, not boiling it. The water and tea leaves are added, in the pot, then served.
Most ceramic bodies can't tolerate direct heat, like a flame, or any cook top. The vitrified structure can't transfer the energy fast enough, and thermal shock occurs, causing it to crack.
There are clay bodies, meant for this, calles "flameware". I've not seen a lot of potters use such a body, because metal just does a better job, at dealing with direct heat, so we use it instead of ceramic, for such purposes.
Thanks Ben Patterson, I didn’t know that!
@@alexlerouge1170 No problem!
Fun! Thank you. What kind of wax did you use on the MN mug? Interesting.
It is very similar to Talmelli's Crystal Toroidal Bottles
Are those glazes high fire glazes?
Please do smash it. I think it would satisfying to take about your frustration with what went wrong with this particular firing and then make a new one! And everyone else, if you guys are potters you know shit happens! You can't get so emotionally attached to what amounts to a failure. You try something it fails you try it again and it's more successful or even cooler than you thought it would be. I would be stoked to see a combo video of you trying again and the finished result with a satisfying dropping and or smashing of the failed one. It's what I would do 😈😉
Break the tea pot. Everytime you see it it will drive you nuts! Break it & move forward. Love your work.
Please don’t smash it!!! Kintsugi that cracked piece!! Embrace that flaw! Lol I still love it
As one of your first subscribers, smash the pot.