SIMON LEACH - Shallow 'eared' trimmed bowl

www.simonleachceramics.com Maybe not for the outright beginner this one, but a nice shape . Do join us for a workshop ! SL

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[angeldetierra]

Muy bueno como siempre. Pero ¿porque usas una base y no lo haces directamente en el plato del torno? ¿hay alguna ventaja? No entiendo mucho el ingles.

Gracias como siempre por estos videos.

[sleachpots]

Hola - se puede hacerlo encima del plato del torno directamente, o utilizar una base para no dañar el cuenca al momento de levantarlo, con los dedos ....un saludo Simon

[joealanouf]

i'm doin it!

simon. you a very insprashonal potter to me.

[sleachpots]

Go for it ! SL

[24clara]

Lovely, the ears of your "eared" bowls ! I will try... But I think I have to go in Spain to succeed in doing so beautiful bowls...and improve MY English too!

Thanks for all, Simon. French Clara

[sleachpots]

Bienvenue ! SL

[sylviepoterieenfolie]

Bonjour Simon, je sais que vous parler anglais, mais peut-être que le français vous le connaissez, c'est vraiment bien vos vidéos, j'aime beaucoup, je suis une nouvelle potière et vraiment vous m'inspirez beaucoup, il y a certainement d'autre potière qui parle français, alors bienvenue à tous.

Bravo Simon

Sylvie

[adlesk54]

Hi Simon and thanks again for all the inspiration! I did try the 'eared bowls' The shape is very pleasing after making the 'ears'. I did not have any trouble trimming, just used a bit of clay on the wheel head to hold him steady. Keep up the good work. I have leared so much! Regards,Sue.

[PotterInCanada]

Hi, You must find out how to throw a chuck. It is a fired form--an hour glass shape with the top and bottom cut off. A chuck for a tumbler would be the shape of the inside of said vessel. Leach did a type of this when he fit one bowl onto the wheel and then centered another on it and repeated. Every one of the guilds I have been part of over the years has a shelf of these fired shapes for holding inverted oil jars, upsidedown teapots etc for trimming.

[DASRAY]

HaHa my washing machine does the same thing, its in the basement.

Very nice bowl am excited to see it glazed.

What is your insperation for this style?

The clay is white? or is this just the bisque fire color?

Thank you

DebraRay

[ClayThrower]

Good idea. I've used foam rubber glued to a bat for things like that.

On this subject, Simon, when I use water and tap center to trim, my nicely rounded and smoothed rim gets flattened! Am I doing it wrong or is that normal? It is worse by far on very thin rims. I also have issues with tall forms, like a narrow six or eight inch tumbler type form. They want to tip over and fly off, any suggestions?

[angeldetierra]

Haaa, cierto. Gracias y mil exitos... saludos

[mudpuppy61]

Not sure how Simon trims it but for irregular items like this bowl, I throw a clay trimming pad, rather thick, I then notch out of the pad the area that is raised or irregular, center the bowl (or whatever) on the pad and trim that way. Make sure to squeegie all the water off the pad with a stiff rib so your pot doesn't stick :)

[Annemasque]

Yep, you're putting me back on track again! I'm gonna try now without that skirt of clay!(hope the pot won't catch up a cold without that skirt LOL!)

Annemie

[claymoma]

simon, when ever I pour glaze into a bowl it always gets flaky when it dries and stays that way after I fire it to a cone 04. Most of my glazes are simple frit, silica and kaolin receipes on an earthenware body. I'm kinda at a loss as to what to do, any suggestions???

Warm regards from Debbie in Florida.

[credenza1]

There's something so graceful about watching a bowl being developed. Thanks.