Wheel thrown porcelain with Moon Byeong Sik

On my recent visit to S. Korea I was able to connect with Moon Byeong Sik, a porcelain potter I had met a few years back. This was my first visit to his studio and he was gracious enough to offer me a wheel and some clay and we both threw pots and compared techniques. While neither of us speak too much of each others language, we were able to use the clay as a prop for conversation.

Category:

Howto & Style

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• Icheon
• Yeoju
• porcelain
• baekja
• Korea
• Kiln
• pottery
• wheel
• Adam Field Pottery
• celadon
• vase
• bowl
• teabowl
• Seoul

[acidfriend47]

hey I was wondering is that the best way to do pots in that version ( like having the clay very high and working with the plates on top) or is it better to do it all the way in the bottom?

[agfield2000]

@acidfriend47 this is a great way to make smaller pieces, much quicker and easier to prepare one large piece of clay then to prepare many small ones

[CherricoPottery]

great hump throwing, thanks for posting Adam! two questions for you...

1.) how does he avoid "s" cracks with the hump throwing? I've found that even with stoneware, trimming, and drying them for about 5 days, anywhere from 10-25% of my pots still crack. I can't imagine how much this would increase if I started using porcelain.

2.) what does he use for a cut-off tool?

[agfield2000]

1. Not sure what he's doing to keep the "s" cracking to a minimum, but I asked him yesterday and he said he gets about 5-7% cracked.

2. He cuts the pots off with a home made tool, a hacksaw blade that is cut at an angle, kind of looks like a smaller version of a standard wooden knife pottery tool.

[agfield2000]

you can get a glimpse of it down to the left of the wheelhead at: 0:58 - 1:08

[tnorton314]

Very interesting. What came next for those pots? I assume he trimmed the bases. And were they glazed, or was that just the natural clay?  Thanks for sharing!

[agfield2000]

They will be trimmed and handles will be added to the mugs. A pale blue (almost white) translucent glaze is applied to the bisque pots and they are reduction fired in a gas kiln to cone 8. The finished pots are very translucent.

[2589Kam]

@thehandsdeliver José González - Slow moves

[thehandsdeliver]

Who is the music artist? LOVE THE MUSIC!

[metteheinz]

love this video - even after watching it over 20 times. do you know if it is possible to buy any of Moon Byeong Sik's  work?

[yakimonomaker]

byeong sik you rock  !

[aspiringartist333]

my God... it was perfect lol.