@floriangadsby: Here’s the process of mixing up 3, 20-kilogram batches worth of glaze. I’ve tried to work this into as efficient a method as it can be, without owning much larger buckets of glaze and bigger mixers. The thing is, buckets of glaze beyond this size become so unwieldily as without dollies to put them on they are incredibly heavy. Thus, mixing up smaller batches of say, 20 kg of raw materials, plus water, is a more manageable task for when working by yourself.   I mix these thick and I’ll dilute them a touch the following day and I normally spread this weight out over two buckets as when dipping larger pots, the displacement caused when pressing the vessel into the glaze is significant and so a really absurdly full bucket, like these are, isn’t actually that practically for a portion of the pots I’m glazing.   Beyond that, it’s a sweaty hour with a mask clasped tightly onto my face. I don’t enjoy it, it’s dusty and I have to be so meticulous and this is also one of the reasons I mix such large batches, as I really don’t want to be having to do this very often, at the moment it’s about 2-3 times a year, max, in combination with a few other glazes used.   The best thing about these three glazes is that fundamentally they all have the same base, this means that as I mix them and sieve them, provided I start with the version without any colourant, I don’t have to clean up my tools as I progress through the glazes, which alone saves a tremendous amount of time and water.   The last thing I do, which isn’t mentioned in the video, is that throughout this, whenever I do have to clean tools up, it’s done in a larger basin of water in which I collect ‘waste’ glaze throughout the year. This is the excess essentially that comes off when fettling pots and it’s all done in an effort so that practically NO glaze goes to waste. It’s all eventually reused; any debris is sieved out and it’s added back to these larger buckets of glaze.   #glaze #glazing #handmade #oddlysatisfying #pottery

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Tuesday 10 March 2026 15:16:49 GMT