But doesn’t the clay and water get like funky and smelly after a while? I was wondering that about her sludge buckets too like don’t they grow bacteria?

@@taishanaomi Sure, they do after a whole but I pour or off the excess water every day or so and do a small batch of reclaim probably each week.

Its coming up in the next weeks!

glad I could help! 😄

yay! 😄

Different pottery vlog

Yes do the video tutorial please

ok will do 😄

@@PotterytothePeople Nice!!! :)

woah that's wasteful! I just wash them in my normal washing machine! Haven't had any problems yet. I do the max number of rinse cycles though, and if the towel is really muddy, I will put it outside to be washed by the rain before washing in the machine. I've been doing this for 5 years without a problem.

i do not! thats the benefit to letting it dry before rehydrating😄

hehe i know the feeling!

I used to mix my reclaim too and honestly this way is so much easier 😅

So much to say! I'm going to make a whole video on that soon :)

I'm slightly concerned about the water / slip difference. I don't have a slip container; I never use it in my work. All I have is dried-out clay, and tap water. I don't need the same amount of elasticity that a wheel-thrower does; I'm not playing with it to that degree, so I guess I'll probably be okay. Would taking some fresh clay from the bag, getting it wet to make a slip, and using that be beneficial? Or just water, and go with it?

​​@@TSIRKLANDusing the reclaim throwing water replaces the very fine particles suspended in the water. But since you don't wash the fine particles out, you've still got them in your recycle clay and don't need to replace. However, depending on how much contaminants there are in the reclaim clay, you may want to combine some fresh clay with your reclaim when you prepare the clay for use.

will do! 😄

I was wondering the exact same thing. I’m trying to be more cognizant of dust and properly disposing of clay water. I certainly wouldn’t put them in the washing machine. In the past, in warmer weather, I have a rock garden and lay my clay ridden items over the rocks. I rinse them with the garden hose and flip over. But during the winter, that’s difficult to do, at least where I live.

In the studio where I worked we had 3 different types of shelving . 1) shelves built into walls held glazes and lots of miscellaneous storage. 2) old bookshelves held some drying items, but also most of our supplies and tools. 3) We had some old bakery tray holders. (Maybe you can find on ebay or something similar.) We would put most of our drying pieces on boards in those. You can place the boards with as much space between them as makes sense. We had another room with kilns and more shelves for drying, finished pieces, and other miscellaneous stuff.

I dont see any reason why not :)

@@PotterytothePeople cool thanks for the quick reply!! 🤗

I could have poured it into the slip bucket! I was just lazy haha

You don't need to mix if you let your clay dry out! That's why I do it this way :) So much easier. I only heard of people using a sieve for something like slip-trailing. Otherwise it would take the grog out?

@@PotterytothePeople I do let my clay dry out, but in order for the water to thoroughly coat each particle of clay it needs to be slurry mixed with a fairly high speed mixer. That is how clay is made every where by professional clay suppliers (except for the US, which is too lazy except for STARWorks in North Carolina and dry mixes clay) by high speed slurry mixing and filter pressing, which dewatering through sheets/pillowcases/canvas/on plaster is the home way to approximate filter pressing. Your clay really will not be as plastic and as workable if it is not thoroughly mixed. Whether you use a sieve or not depends on the clay and the individual, many if not most clays don’t have grog or sand and sieving with a 60 mesh won’t remove those unless you have really huge grog/sand size. But sieving makes sure that there are absolutely not lumps and also helps reduce air entrapment and filters out a ton of gunk that reclaim tends to pick up like pet or human hair, sponges, ribs, chamois, all sorts of stuff that end up in reclaim. It is pretty much the standard to at least mix it extremely well with some kind of high powered mixer, even if you dry it out- trust me I make all my clay into paperclay, just dissolving it in water does not mix it up well, I have to thoroughly mix the completely dried out clay that has soaked in water at least overnight before I can mix in the cellulose, and I also make most of my own clays from scratch now so I do this A LOT. The clay is very uneven and in the case of grog or sand it will usually settle to the bottom if left in water and needs to be well mixed back into the rest of the clay. Sieving is more to make sure all the icky or sharp stuff that can get in clay is removed, and is more personal preference.