I live for the rubber kidney.

They’re just amazing

@@floriangadsby I have a rubber kidney in my body

@@sidstone8845 for some reason this was so funny!😂

Haha, soon! It goes live in 1 hour 12 minutes at the time of writing this reply! And thank you too of course.

Thank you! 6 minutes 20 seconds to be exact, it's quite surreal! People are so incredibly fast.

Thank you very much!

Cheers Greg! It was total mayhem, I honestly can't believe it sells out as fast as it does.

and a lucky youtuber to have a highly-valuable handcrafted product to sell with such excellent marketing :D

I have a long way before I get to his level! I love his videos, so thank you for the kind compliment 🙌🏼

I need to find more ladles, I hope I can find a source of them in the UK. I've already broken one!

All good points. Thank you! I don't really have to break up clumps with my hands, really I just flip the stuck bit at the bottom and then sit my mixer on top of it and blend it all up after that. That being said, there are batches where I don't have to do that and I just stick the blender in straight away and let it do it's job. I don't mind spotting with iron either, and thankfully as everything is sieved it barely ever happens anyhow. There are instances where, if I'm mixing glaze in advance, I will use more water and give them more time to slake down, but what was filmed was from a session where I needed to use the glaze the same day. So I just rushed it all through and thankfully the end result was totally fine. I guess what works better for some glazes might not be absolutely necessary for all of them. I could have definitely put more water in at the start though, that's for sure. Thanks for watching Donn and I appreciate the suggestions.

@@floriangadsby I am envious of that blender.

It's beefy - I never really thought I'd get one but pretty much all the potteries I've worked in over the years have used them so I figured there's a reason for that and they really do just smash the materials.

Thanks so much Michael, appreciate you taking the time to watch.

Thanks for watching! So pleased to hear that.

Likewise

I'm so pleased to hear that, thanks for taking the time to watch, it really does mean such a lot.

Thank you Anna!

Glad you like them! And thanks for taking the time to watch, it means a lot.

Hey, thank you! The glaze on the rims moves, and flows down the forms, revealing the clay underneath which is high in iron and often gives the glaze a deeper colour, although it's actually thinner. But I don't have to do anything extra, it's just how the glaze reacts when fired like this.

It is called “breaking”.

I bought mine from Scarva Pottery Suppliers and it's called a Gladstone five gallon mixer. I'm not sure on their availability outside of the UK but I hope that helps!

@@floriangadsby thank you. I contacted the manufacturer. Our power is slightly different here. Thank you so much for the information.

Depends on what's in it. Most of "pottery" is as dangerous as sand. Some glazes are based on heavy metals like lead (no fun stuff) but nowadays you can rarely even buy these in raw form. Pre-melted and milled into a "base glaze" it's just another form of sand to handle.

@@gazz3867 such fine sand though, no? it isn't just the materials but the size of the particles, which can stay suspended in the air for some time after mixing. i feel like it's common knowledge that inhaling dry glaze particles (and clay particles as well) can be incredibly hazardous over time w/o PPE...

@@dongo3042 Technically true... but. Historically quartz (and other) dust particles had been an issue in the industry but you'd have to work in a heavy dust cloud 7 days a week. In Germany these health issues have been extinct for decades. Even in a workshop the size of yours, simple ventilation will make short work of it. In one particularly dusty area we are also using a tiny bit of fine water mist (from an oil burner nozzle) as a dust-be-gone. If you work with especially toxic materials PPE can still be an excellent idea. I'm just saying that in this day and age pottery-typical dust issues are about as common as rhinoceros attacks. =)

@@gazz3867 very interesting!!! thanks for the info. yeah, i know things like silicosis are very rare these days/not really seen outside of a factory type setting... i try to be careful because i have asthma, but i know it’s likely overkill ha.

@@dongo3042 Silicosis is a problem for equestrians, especially teachers working in indoor arenas.

I definitely could! And I'll try sticking the clay in first next time around, thanks for the tips Linda, and thanks for watching too!

It was nuts - this was the fastest it has sold out by far. I have a lot of boxes to pack!

Sometimes… usually the glazed surfaces seem quite damp, so the glaze that comes off doesn’t feel like it immediately fills the air like it might when poured out from a dry sack. That being said, if it does feel particularly powdery and very dry I will put a mask on.

Cheers! So glad you liked it, it's a whole other world from KZfaq but generally it's where I post many more pictures and videos of the processes behind the pots.

@@floriangadsby I have a lot interest in pottery but the kiln and clay is not available by the way where you sell these and in country u sell can tell and all the best

The metal that holds the wooden handle onto the metal scoop has bent and snapped away from the cup. Probably pretty fixable but I imagine there must be somewhere to purchase them in the UK.