SIMON LEACH - how to quickly finish & fettle mugs !

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This is really VITAL practical stuff for you budding production potters !!

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[trialbyfirepottery]

Perhaps teaching openmindedness was not the common thing in 1972. I pot all day and night and if i can get a beautiful bottom edge finish in 10 seconds on a specific design: GREAT!! Love them Simon, keep 'em coming--Hilary in Canada

[sleachpots]

Hi H

Cold up there in Canada ! I am in UK in the wet, but will post somethings from the studio here of my late father David leach.Back to Spain next tuesday. regards SL

[ClydeB3]

So, when in time did NOT turning a "foot ring" happen? In all my training. . . ALWAYS a "foot ring" was needed. I am baffled. Are you breaking tradition?

[sleachpots]

Hi

Footrings are needed ,but not on every pot you make !!!!! Most beginners seem to want to turn every pot they make ! usually because they havn't been taught to do otherwise ?

Poor throwing results in then having to turn the pot, better to throw it lighter to start with, not all heavy & thick at the base.

Regards SL

[joealanouf]

intresting. i see what your doing. do you have a shop or place you sell your stuff at simon?

[sleachpots]

On my website , galleries in UK & here in Spain direct from my studio ....

regards SL

[harleyspringer1]

come on folks 4,552 views with only 13 ratings? support a potter ! Hook him up with 5 stars !!!!!

[timseepots]

I Feel and I teach everyone of my students to trim its what finishes the pot even if it was light enough not to. not trimming is sacrifcing quality for production. I want great work from my students not more of it. you were taught correctly.

[timseepots]

its called single firing not a problem in many cases, only people that do not understand firing get worried about it.

[ClydeB3]

Yes, after bone dry - glaze, then fire once. Check out: The Self-reliant Potter by Andrew Holden ISBN 0-7136-2808-1 Pg. 56

[ClydeB3]

The Self-reliant Potter

Andrew Holden

ISBN 0-7136-2808-1

Pg. 56

[wirehunter86]

why wouldn't a potter bisque fire? Are you talking about doing a glaze fire straight after a pot is becomes bone dry? If so, it seems a little problematic, b/c the water particles still needs to escape from the clay, so if you do a glaze fire, wouldn't the steam from the clay create bubbles in the glaze while trying pass through the glaze to get out?

[ClydeB3]

I would think one would WANT to learn from each you've listed, BUT - the weight is basic FUNDAMENTALS before one ventures out to abandon what was learned as the CORRECT procedures. Foot rings are traditional. Being a beginner or pro does not apply to this. Just as bisque firing is not needed, but still used, foot rings are a traditional choice. Why would a pro bisque fire? Same difference. Tradition.

[smathewspots]

What a person learns in college, or from any teacher, or from books, or from your own experimentation, certainly does not make it the only way, or the right way, wouldn't you say?