How to make a PERFECT CLAY SLAB WITHOUT a roller
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- čas přidán 27. 07. 2024
- Tutorial about making clay slabs without an expensive slab roller or rolling pin! Slabs are so usueful for many different pottery projects and in this video we go step by step through how to perfectly throw out a slab.
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I have such an awful time trying to make slabs using a rolling pin or a slab roller and last night I tried this technique with great success! Thank you! The best slabs I've ever made!
Use guide rails.
Hi Jon, your a fit young man with big biceps and you make it look so easy. The rest of us , forget it!
i came by this video yesterday after work. Spent the next 4 hours slabbin' - so much fun! Great lesson.
Damn! This rocks! I don't have a slab roller so this is perfect! Thanks for posting.
This video is so awesome! I'd love to see more hand building videos in the future!
Slabs are my favorite way to sculpt. Most sculptors prefer coilwork for larger pieces, but I've found a moderately stiff slab is MUCH easier to work with. If you let it dry enough it will hold its own weight better than coils because coils have to be done fresh. I HATE fresh clay. I don't do throwing, though, so that might be why :)
Really interesting ! Do you have a shop or else where we can see your work ? 😊
@@kleineoOoStern No, I don't have that kind of money. If I ever post pictures I'll send a link. It's really a private thing for me.
Who else enjoys opening a fresh bag of clay 🖐🏻
Slaps clay prefusly
Great video! I have a big slab roller and use it all the time. Best money ever spent! I work large hand building projects, so need large expanses of rolled out clay. Too much strain on the body to do it by hand. But this is useful for smaller projects and for those who don't intend on working big.
What brand of slab roller do you have? I also work with big slabs and rolling them out by hand is literally killing mybhands
@@ivonne2587 I bought it from Axner Pottery - I believe it was their brand....it looks exactly like the Shimpo roller on their website ($983). I paid $700 for it about 10 years ago.
This is the method I was taught as well. I use this method more than my slab roller...unless I am doing a lot of slab building. I am new to your channel but have enjoyed the videos. Thank you! Keep doing what you're doing!
Does this method eliminate the need for wedging?
I still wedge the air bubbles out. But making even slabs is easy with this method.
@@deborarinehart2120 Thanks!
Sorry, could you repeat that part about the roller, do we have to use it?
Yeah I’m not clear on that part. We do or do not need a roller?
Was he not clear? Before starting any pottery project you must throw a roller multiple times to appease the pottery gods. If you have no rollers to sacrifice you might as well forget it.
@@wiros8101 I think I love you.
I dont feel confident if I infact need or dont need a roller
So simple. Thanks for sharing
That was great thanks 👍🏻never seen a slab done that way- beautiful plates 😍
I love watching you, :) its so relaxing
"You got me at slab" ;) Thanks, it's so easy, I love it!
Thanks! :)
You make it look so easy. I love it… I will try it next time!
Who'd a thought?? Great technique. I'm subscribing. I tried my pasta machine because I'm making thin pieces, however... with canvas on both sides of my clay, the pasta machine does not have a setting that would make my clay thick enough.. but it does make it super thin... lol. Hey Jon.. thanks again hun!
Thank you! This video is very useful for beginners like me.
This is awesome! Thank you!
My most recent video I made Tombo Sticks for measuring pottery... so you can repeat copies. This is really cool! I didn’t know this!
Such a great video! Defo trying this
Superb...Thank you
@Jonthepotter Do you not need to wedge the clay beforehand? Thanks, interesting technique!
Awesome!!!
Brilliant!!!
Inspiring! From a fellow clay slapper.
Thank you that was very helpful, are usually use a couple of pieces of sticks in my rolling pin. I will try this
stick some cloth on your pin with contact glue , the clay will act the same as it does on your table
⭐Thank you for sharing your techniques.⭐
You can throw large pieces of clay on a concrete floor and it works well. You just separate your feet and let the clay hit the ground about 16 - 24 inches from your feet and flow between your feet. It works well.
Ooo, haven't tried that method, might have to!
@@Jonthepotter yes Jon and it cleans the floor too as well as picks up all those discarded cigarette butts and weed roaches too lol i guess a little dirt in the mix wont make it blow when it goes into the kiln....well maybe not ... you should try it in rough gravel and see the cool textures that come up .: )
Thank you!!!
amazing videos
Love this! I hate using the roller!!
perfect explanation! No wedging necessary? Is that because as you throw it down, it likely compresses?
Thank you! That was really helpful!
Helpful???
@@gso7725 yep
also Like your style Bro
Jokes aside this is very informative. Thanks!
Great video how do you trim the plates? Or do you add clay for the foot?
I used to add coils for the feet but now I don't even do that, I just keep the bottom flat and smooth it out with a sponge! We use them everyday at the coffeehouse so we break them frequently so I don't spend tooo much time on them:) Happy potting!
Yay... my kind of pottery
So cool
You're so cool you make this look way easier than it is lmao
I wish CZcams had an ‘oh my wow’ button!
Look out batwings here I come! I’m doing this😂
Super!
👏👏👏👏thank you...
Wow! I now realize the way I've been making slabs is ridiculous!
This is helpful, im trying to make a mask and I needed a nice flat slab for the base of it
Hi Jon, I can't seem to get my slabs even. They're always thick in the middle and much thinner at the edges. Even if I trim the thin edges off it's still thicker in the very center. Any tips or tricks you think could help? Thanks!
Hi...use two parallel flat sticks... and use the roller.
@@salc348 haha. The whole point of this video is to NOT use a roller.
What do you use for the work surface? A piece of drywall? If so is it covered with any thing? Thanks loved the video.
Most tables are made of wood and then it is covered tightly with canvas fabric. The only problem with this is that the canvas creates a lot of dust which is very very harmful to your health.
Thanks
Is the canvas you use muslin fabric or a painting canvas?
The table you are using is what kind of material? I don't want clay slab to stick on the table.
Hey Jon great video! my question is how did you get the canvas to stick to the table? glue?
You can staple it at the side or bottom
What kind of clay do you use?
Went you buy the arcilla?
I’ve rolled mine, and it has not turned out too well. Thanks!!
Everything takes practice. Then one day you feel almost like a pro.
What is the name of the slab roller you showed that was attached to the table?
Great video! That’s how I’ve done it too. Here’s my question though…do your slabs ever tear apart in the glaze firing? I seem to have a lot of slabs break in half I’m the glaze firing. Any help?
Do you put sand under them to reduce resistance / drag on the kiln shelf?
@@channelMEARCyes I do! I’m guessing it’sa fast firing or cool down issue. It’s a very small kiln and it’s probably too much stress that way.
Hey Jon, how do you get your canvas so tight on the table?
Stapled to the underside, just like stretching a canvas for a painting only over a table instead!
@@Jonthepotter Hey Jon! What kind of table do you have? I'm an amateur potter and I'm looking into making my own little handbuilding studio at home. I'm trying to come up with the best equipment/supplies to get. You're videos are great!
Jonthepotter Do you have to change it every time so that dry clay on the fabric wouldn’t mix with your fresh clay?
I'm having trouble understanding what slip is. Is it water and clay? Color and clay? Do you buy it premade or do you make it yourself ?
slip is water and clay.. usaly left over from trowing on a wheel but i put sometimes little bits of clay in a jar whit some water and vinigar ( sticks a lot better) .. leave this for a day or so.. shake as well and you can use this for glue for handbuilding. each clay has is own jar whit slip.
can i purchase mugs and if so price please thanks Jon
Hey right now I have no extra inventory to sell, but I am working on an online store to hopefully sell and ship by the end of the summer, thanks !
yayyyyyyyyyy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Before my slab roller, I did this lol!
Can I have your slab roller, since you're not using it?
Haha, I will probably sell it at some point actually if I don't end up using it.
Can I borrow it when u get it? I pay with coffee🤣
LoL cold turn that plate into a simple incense holder for stick incense, lots of area ti paint on.
What kind of clay is that?
Bonsai pots!
Okay I am not strong enough for this. 😂
In the ancient time the baker used to do so for soften the dough!
yeah a lot more fun :hahah ; )
Do you make your clay?
Dont need to wedge it first??
Se facessi così nel giro di una settimana avrei le braccia spezzate.
I could watch 30 min of that forwards and backwards throw.
U are subscribed to ESPN I presume?
Uhm excuse me. Are you a wizard?
Está bien la técnica.....pero me asustaron sus trabajos.... Al menos , si salen mal, nadie se da cuenta......👍
Great video, thanks! Could have done without the music though.
New title: How to get Tasty 💪 Biceps
Let me know if you want to donate that slab roller to my High School classroom :)
Not clickbait?!?!
Hey, what you want to make finally??. You won't need a rolling pin or supporting guide,tell us why the best ceramic studios in the world use this tool?
Thanks for the lesson, but the music is super annoying! What if you put the music on the left channel, and your voice on the right channel, that way one of the other can be selected out.
loud audio
so, why not use a roller anyway , just to make a video maybe?
Because some of us are minimalist/utilitarian/new and lacking some basic tools but eager to go anyway/have sore hands from rolling.
Seems a bit impractical. I was hoping for something I can do in my house without slamming my kitchen table.
I am going to try it on the cement basement floor.
You’ve done worse on that kitchen table- wink wink, nudge nudge🤣..get a work horse and an old door then, easy to store
do it on the garage floor a little car grease and oil couldn't hurt too much lol
Dude, great video but that music is ear cancer! It literally hurts to listen to with headphones on. Just offering that for what it's worth.
Thanks