859. Throwing a 6 Lb Sodium Silicate Texture Covered Jar with Hsin-Chuen Lin

[Music] Right. Pretty quick. Uh, I centered this piece. This is about six pound of clay. [Music] [Music] So if you have a hard time, you can use my number six compression stick for taking care of the floor. So the floor is compressing flat and also I have a very good uh 90° in the corner [Music] and keep on squeezing the clay from the corner. bring it in to use most of the clay so that I don't waste the clay in the bottom corner. [Music] So after I bring to enough height, I'm going to remove all my throwing mark and then brush the sodium slick and then start to stretch it. So in mind the number one triangular shape rib to smooth [Music] [Music] Right. And then I'm going to use a um texture rip to scratch some horizontal lines just like I did on the other day. [Music] Then brush the sodium silicate over the texture. [Music] And then I'm going to use the torch to dry the surface a little bit. [Music] Okay. So that torch is very powerful so I don't overcook. Once I find out the service is getting non shiny then I stop. And then I'm going to use the ri my number two rip to stretch it using this curve. This curve. [Music] Let me stop. And you can see that the surface start to get crackle from the sodium silicate. [Music] [Music] So I'm compressing the rim so to keep it thicker. It will hold the shape a bit better while I'm stretching it. So that's why I you see that I keep on compressing it down to make the rim slightly stronger. [Music] [Music] Okay. What I did was using my fingertip just fine tuning the overall shape. See which spot is a little bit off. And then I'm going stretch it out. So use my just fingers to do the final shaping. And then I'm going to take care of the rim. Turn it into a lid jar. The neck is probably a little bit too tall. So I am going to cut it up and maybe have the opening slightly wider. I could chop it off here. And then I'm cleaning up the bottom. Trim the stir clay off the bottom corner. I'm using my number 17 stainless trimmer, skirt trimmer. All right. And then measure the width. And this time I am making a different type of uh little jar. The one I just did a couple days ago is double gallery. One gallery on the body of the shape body and then gallery on the lid. But this one I just keep it a simple simple rim and then I put the gallery on my lid so it doesn't move. It's little bit easier. And this is the the preferred way I keep the the body simple and then I put the gallery on the lid system. Okay. So this is about six pound of a clay mar. And uh I leave it a little bit thicker. So when I stretch it, uh I can see more the crackle texture more dramatically because I leave the clay a little bit thicker. And then use my other just pop uh my bed insert here and I can keep on throwing. All right, for the making the lid, since I'm trimming the nut, that's the preferred way for making my lids. So, I'm trimming till the dead stage. So, this part here, I need to leave it thicker so I have room to trim my knob. So, when I'm centering, I'm centering the shape into like a toe knob. Okay, the base smaller and the top slightly wider. and then open that. Pour it out. When pull out, leave the the edge slightly thicker. So, you are going to put the gallery right here. Um, using my thumb to compress the inner part of the shallow dish. This part here, it's a very good curve and it's fitting right there. So, I usually use that to squeeze it to push it. And then I put my fingertip there. Then this two finger compressed it and the in index finger or a thumb just a small finger in the middle and then you compress it down. So you already see the shape of the gallery. And uh before I refine it, I need to measure if this is the right width. So bring back my measurement. So you see that is slightly wider. That's fine. I can squeeze the clay a little bit in inward. So it will be smaller. And for making the gallery, I show you before using my number one. It's the triangular shape and I have mine a corner bridge sharp. It's like 90° perfect 90° and use the 90° and with the finger inside to support it and then 90° to squeeze it because I want to make it slightly smaller. So I squeeze it in and my finger inside is supporting it. Okay, let's double check. Right. So, it's about the right size. So, I will stop right here and then use a shammy to smooth compress and smooth the rim. And the make sure when you're making the lid because if you have your lid too flat that doesn't look nice. You want to slightly have a curve. So when you're making it the inner part of the lid you want to slightly curve down. So when you trim on the other side you will slightly curve. That kind of lid looks little bit nicer than the flat top. Okay. Try to clean the corner again. Right. And then this part here is slightly thicker. I can pull it pull it out outward. Make it slightly thinner. And maybe this part here is little bit too wide. You can trim it. You can do it later by when you are ready to trim. But uh I usually like to sip some clay, some wet clay. So I'm trimming it now. Okay. And pull out and use the um the shammy to smooth it and put my thumb there. So slightly pinch. So you see that there are like looking at the double rim here. That clay I can trim it off. Wet trim it. Before I do that I will do my final cleaning. Okay. Right. So, this looks good. And let me double check that. Um, this is fine. And let's let's say that um there's a double rim here. So, I'm using my number five knife. And I just try to chop up from here. and remove some wet clay. So later on I don't need to trim too much. Okay, take it down all the way. Okay, reserve some clay. I can reuse it again. Um, you can see that this is quite a bit of a clay. So, I reserve that much of clay for me to trim the knob later on. Just pop it out from my back system body and the leg together. Thanks for watching. I will see you next time. And by the way, this piece of clay is six pound. So I will try to throw 4 lb, six pound, and lay on 8 pound and maybe 10 lb. So you can see the different sizes of the same project. All right. Yep. See you next time. Thanks for watching. [Music]