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Using an Electric Wheel & Kick Wheel
How to Prep Clay for Making Pottery
How to Center the Clay on the Potter's Wheel
How to Open & Form the Clay on the Potter's Wheel
How to Trim a Pot on the Potter's Wheel
How to Remove Pots from the Potter's Wheel
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How to Protect Greenware Pottery
Chattering on the Potter's Wheel
Materials Used for Chattering on the Potter's Wheel
How to Use a Slab Roller
Using a Slab Roller to Avoid Wasting Clay
How to Use Molds in Ceramics
Using Pottery Molds to Create Dishes
Adding Detail to Pottery
How to Use Patterns to Decorate your Pottery
How to Dry your Pottery
About Firing Greenware Pottery
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Making Pottery: How to Create Agateware
How to Scraffito a Greenware Pot
How to Wax your Pottery before Glazing
How to Glaze Pottery
Glazing Techniques for Pottery
How to Use Wax & Glaze to Add Detail to your Pottery
Loading a Gas Kiln with Pottery
How to Maximize Space in a Gas Kiln
Using Cones to Monitor Temperature in a Kiln: Part 1
Using Cones to Monitor Temperature in a Kiln: Part 2
Using a Pug Mill to Reconstitute Clay
Summary: How to use as much available kiln space for big and small pieces of pottery as possible to save on costs; learn this and more in this free video arts and crafts lesson taught by a pottery making expert.
Betty Ingham and her husband Ben, retired from education in 2001. They purchased and have fully remodeled and restored a 100 year old Victorian home from top to bottom. They also own a...read more
"Hi I'm Betty Ingham on behalf of Expert Village. We would put little things all around that. As in Christmas ornaments or some more smaller patterns or some more smaller items. Now we try to utilize every step, every piece, every inch of our kiln because it is so expensive to fire this but we are look at 600-700 hundred dollars for a load of propane gas. My husband and I our dream was to build a gas kiln and this is out kiln that we built ourselves it has 4 burners and it has about $3000 of fire brick. You would expect it to be very heavy but it is not it is very very light but it is very self containing of the flame and they weight about 25 pounds each and they are very difficult for me to get on the very top so my husband usually loads the kiln. I glaze it and he loads the kiln."
eHow Article: How to Maximize Space in a Gas Kiln
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