Thank you so much! I've just done my first pitfire after watching all your videos for the last year! The pots have come out spectacular!! Thank you so much for all the tips and detailed videos on pitfire!!
I have been watching Andy Ward for a few months and had a blast making primitive pottery from my local clays. Your pit fire finishing methods and recipes have been an outstanding bridge for me to evolve to more complex finishes. Your candor and presentation are excellent. I really appreciate it! Thankyou.
I love your trash can fired pieces. Would you share what clay you are using and also what cone you biscuit fire to. Thank you for sharing the wonderful videos.
I found that waxing didn't do some pots justice so I warmed them in the kiln for a few minutes and then wiped them with a rag dampened with denatured alcohol. Worked great and the alcohol dries clean and quickly. I then used silicon spray after an hour or so on those particular pots and it made the colors pop the way I wanted them to.
Yes, it's not always the same polishing material works. I use acrylic spray too on some pots, 2-3 different kinds wax and a sealant, that also can polish.
Yes, in many of my pitfire videos you will find examples of how I create the colors. You can find a playlist with them all here: th-cam.com/video/STgFcMIPl1s/w-d-xo.html
Thanks so much for your videos! I have learned so much! How do you apply the liquid quartz on your bowls? You mentioned that a little goes a long way - do you pour in and swish or wipe on?
If you're sealing the inside with concrete sealant, do you wax the outside before or after the concrete sealer? Just wondering if you do it after whether the water that comes off the sealant gets trapped by the wax or affects it in any way?
Mikkel -- thank you so much for these videos! My first firing went very well, but 2 of the pots came out very black. They were done in exactly the same way as the others -- foil saggers, etc. Any idea what causes some to go black and not others?
Thanks :-) The black typically comes from carbon from organic materials burning and smoking. So there must have been more smoke close to them, is my guess
Also, to what do you attribute the difference between the 2 pots you show in this video? One is largely blue, the other rosey red. Do you know or is this by chance?
Check that concrete sealer chemical makeup. Many of those concrete sealers are just sodium silicate (water glass) which we use to make stretched surface pots. Way cheaper at a big box hardware store by the gallon as opposed to by the pint at a pottery supplier. :-)
Thank you so much! I've just done my first pitfire after watching all your videos for the last year! The pots have come out spectacular!! Thank you so much for all the tips and detailed videos on pitfire!!
Thanks. So good to hear! ❤️
Thankyou for the how and what to do, the whole process, the pieces are beautiful 😊
Happy you like it ❤️
I have been watching Andy Ward for a few months and had a blast making primitive pottery from my local clays. Your pit fire finishing methods and recipes have been an outstanding bridge for me to evolve to more complex finishes. Your candor and presentation are excellent. I really appreciate it! Thankyou.
P.S. You icon screams mad scientist :)
Thank you so much :-)
Maybe I am hehe
Beautiful work, as always. The second pot, in the photos at the end, looks like a canyon in Arizona. Thank you for the videos. Be well.
Thank you very much! :-)
I think it looks very nice ❤
Thanks :-)
Hi, I am very happy with the subtitules 🤩Can enjoy a lot yours videos Thanks so much ( !sorry my english) See you soon 😁🖐
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Gratidão. Seu vídeo e muito bom. Você e muito generoso em compartilhar seus conhecimentos
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Wow beautiful
Thank you so much :-)
Good work, aplauses
Thanks 🙏
I love your trash can fired pieces. Would you share what clay you are using and also what cone you biscuit fire to. Thank you for sharing the wonderful videos.
I se many different kinds of stoneware. Most often with 25-40% fine grog. I bisque fire to 950 or 1000 C
@@deMibPottery thank you. You are so wonderful to share your experience. Your videos are as amazing as you work.
I found that waxing didn't do some pots justice so I warmed them in the kiln for a few minutes and then wiped them with a rag dampened with denatured alcohol. Worked great and the alcohol dries clean and quickly. I then used silicon spray after an hour or so on those particular pots and it made the colors pop the way I wanted them to.
Yes, it's not always the same polishing material works. I use acrylic spray too on some pots, 2-3 different kinds wax and a sealant, that also can polish.
Gorgeous! Thanks so much for this instruction. Is there a video that shows what chemicals/elements you used to get these glorious colors?
Yes, in many of my pitfire videos you will find examples of how I create the colors. You can find a playlist with them all here: th-cam.com/video/STgFcMIPl1s/w-d-xo.html
Thanks so much!!
Thanks so much for your videos! I have learned so much! How do you apply the liquid quartz on your bowls? You mentioned that a little goes a long way - do you pour in and swish or wipe on?
Thanks. You can pour or brush or spray. In any case it wont absorb more than needed. The rest can be returned to bottle
@@deMibPotterythank you! I’ll try that.
can you use this on a pot that has a textured surface ?
Yes, I did that but it makes it hard to burnish
If you're sealing the inside with concrete sealant, do you wax the outside before or after the concrete sealer? Just wondering if you do it after whether the water that comes off the sealant gets trapped by the wax or affects it in any way?
I usually seal the inside last and never had any problems with that :-)
Mikkel -- thank you so much for these videos! My first firing went very well, but 2 of the pots came out very black. They were done in exactly the same way as the others -- foil saggers, etc. Any idea what causes some to go black and not others?
Thanks :-)
The black typically comes from carbon from organic materials burning and smoking. So there must have been more smoke close to them, is my guess
I wonder if the crusty spots are the plastic from the fire max, fire place starters?
No, it is typically salts
@@deMibPottery okay, thanks for letting me know.
Were these examples thrown on a wheel?
Yes
Also, to what do you attribute the difference between the 2 pots you show in this video? One is largely blue, the other rosey red. Do you know or is this by chance?
The blue is made with Cobalt Sulfate and the other with Ferric Chloride
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Check that concrete sealer chemical makeup. Many of those concrete sealers are just sodium silicate (water glass) which we use to make stretched surface pots. Way cheaper at a big box hardware store by the gallon as opposed to by the pint at a pottery supplier. :-)
Sodium Silicate do not make the pots 100% water sealed. The material I use now (which is also cheap) do :-)
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poor video giving no idea where the pot started, with no idea what the beginning piece looked like.
As the headlune suggest this is only about the last finishing part. I have many videos about the other stages.