A New Batch of Nuka Pottery Mugs
Waxing isn’t a creative task for me, it’s just one step in the process that needs to be done in order to make others easier. Although this video doesn’t show one of my ‘usual’ glazes, the how’s and why’s still hold true. For those of you who don’t know, if a base of the pot is glazed and it’s placed into the kiln as per normal, it’ll fuse to the kiln shelf. Now, you can glaze pots as whole and still fire them, you just have to prop them up of stilts or waddings, both of which will leave lasting impressions on the pot that’ll carefully need to be ground and polished away once glaze fired, so instead, I simply remove ALL the glaze from the bases of my pots, this way I don’t have to painstakingly clean them all up afterwards. A job I’m well practiced in after soda firing pots for three years during my apprenticeship, a process where every single pot’s base needs some attention, sometimes this only takes 5 seconds, other times a single vessel could take 20 minutes to properly, and neatly, fix.
In the case of my usual feldspathic crackle glazes that go on tremendously thickly, if I weren’t wax my pots, I’d have to spend time carving away up to 2-3 mm of glaze off the bottoms, which would be hell, frankly. You can use a soaked sponge or a specially cut piece of foam or carpet to do this too, into which you place the glazed pot and rotate a number of times, the material grinding away the glaze on the pot’s bottoms, yet again, due to the sheer amount of glaze that I use, this would be a long, messy process, so wax is best. If instead I ALWAYS used thin glazes like the blue nuka in this video, then I could get away with carefully fettling the glaze off on a flat sponge or pad of wetted foam, but truth be told, I like the accuracy I’m able to achieve doing it all by hand, by waxing the bases and thereafter tidying the feet up with a small piece of sponge and a paring knife.
I miss this cup shape. I haven’t made any for a while like it, although I think the most pressing issue is that my current batch of nuka glaze fires more of a white tone, even when applied thinly, and I’m not entirely sure why.
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