123. How to Make Dinner Plates - from Start to Finish

In this video I will show you everything about how to wheel throw dinner plates - what tools to use, which clay to use, how to throw the plates, trim them and glaze them.
This video contain elements from my previous videos about how to make dinner plates but this one includes everything you need to know in one video.
INDEX:
00:00 Introduction to making dinner plates
00:45 Throwing dinner plates on bats
01:44 The tools for wheel throwing dinner plates
02:58 The clay to use for making dinner plates
05:14 How to wheel throw the dinner plates
08:31 Why not to wire off your plates
11:14 The challnge of trimming plates
12:12 Making a special foam chuk for trimming plates
14:58 How to trim dinner plates
16:13 How to glaze dinner plates
19:34 How to stack plates in the kiln
21:30 Unloading the glaze fired plates from the kiln
23:00 Evaluating the finished plates
23:39 Evaluating the functional qualities of the plates
25:40 Evaluating the visual qualities of the plates
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[@user-vp6ub2sj6c]

Thank you yr teaching lm watching from Capetown

[@deMibPottery]

Good to meet :-)

[@TheJulieatkins]

Thank you so much for your video, so very clear you are a good teacher, Julie x

[@deMibPottery]

Thank you very much ❤️🙏

[@joswinton7359]

Thank you. Love your passion 😊

[@deMibPottery]

Thank you

[@Maker_Bakery]

Love this. Thanks for sharing your methods! That foam batt chuck thing is GENIUS

[@deMibPottery]

Thanks so much!

[@iwanttogotothebeach4233]

Such an excellent tutorial!!! Thank you so much for sharing and giving us the benefit of your time, knowledge and expertise!!! 🌼 ❤ 🌼

[@deMibPottery]

Thanks :-)

[@dafna247]

Thank you very much for the great video. It looks very good. I will definitely try your method out.

[@deMibPottery]

You are welcome 😊

[@DunoonVanRijn-dx1hr]

I love these plates and colours ❤Well done

[@deMibPottery]

Thanks

[@davezad]

Hi Mikkel, I really appreciate this video. I'll give it a try right away. 😁 About your wood tool for cutting the plate edge. Such a great idea! I'm going to make one this week but with one small design change. If I cut a channel down the middle of it, then I can secure the cutting point with a wingnut bolt at the top. That way the cutter can be set for different diameter plates. I want to make nesting sets of plates this way. I'm thrilled at the possibilities you've shown here. Thanks a lot!

[@deMibPottery]

Thanks 🙏 and great idea!

[@BrokenArrowPottery]

Thanks for sharing your method and tools you use in plate making! Your glazes combined with that particular clay are beautifully subtle and well done! I learned a few things that I will try next time I'm making plates! Again, thank you! Cheers! jw

[@deMibPottery]

Thanks so much 😊

[@krissader4855]

nice plates!

[@deMibPottery]

Thank you 😋

[@tedijevtic6756]

I started learning pottery in december and I am still pretty new to everything so this video was very informative for me! Hopefully one day I will learn to make beautiful plates like this. Thank you, cheers from Serbia!

[@deMibPottery]

Thanks :-)

[@brandoncarpenter6142]

I agree! You do a great job of teaching the step by step process. It’s good for those of us who are just starting out. Thank you!

[@deMibPottery]

Glad it was helpful!

[@thecatswhiskers]

Thanks so much for this video, it's great to learn from you! 👌👏👏👏❤️

[@deMibPottery]

Thanks 🙏❤️

[@swismylife42]

Thank you for sharing your techniques and tools. Very inspirational.

[@deMibPottery]

Thanks for watching!

[@levonbakhshinyan2088]

Thank you Mickele from Armenia. I learned to many interesting things and tricks from you. You are amazing potter

[@deMibPottery]

Thank you 🙏❤️

[@allenfitz1]

Thank you. Love the pipe idea for forming the plate.
Im from Michigan ,USA so some times your accent is a bit hard but most times you diction is great.
Thanks for the great videos

[@deMibPottery]

Thanks a lot :-)

[@lyndafjellman3315]

Great video! I stopped wiring off anything on which I wanted a flat surface on the bottom several years ago. I love how easy it is to get a smooth surface that way. You do need a lot of bats if you are doing more than a few pieces at a time. I use hi-density hardboard and coat them with spar varnish to make them more waterproof. They aren't hard to make and fairly inexpensive. They last for years. (I have to make my own bats or re-drill commercial ones as I have a custom wheel with odd distance bat pins)

[@deMibPottery]

Thanks. Sounds good :-)

[@Just2dreamsaway]

Finally! Finally, I've found a channel of someone actually talking through the process, I clicked on a lot of pottery channels where they're just throwing & things, but not saying or explaining anything through the whole video, just quit. I clicked on those channels didn't hear them say anything & clicked right off.

[@deMibPottery]

Thanks 🙏

[@triciac1019]

That is so true. Mikkel always explains.

[@ingegerdandersson6963]

Have you ever probleme with the bottom becoming convex (making it rock)? I learned always remove from th middle of the bottom leasing a fot ring to stand on.

[@DunoonVanRijn-dx1hr]

Very innovative

[@deMibPottery]

👍

[@jimjimgl3]

That "old stoneware" glaze is very nice...! I've changed pottery studios (I throw at my home but fire and glaze at a very big local pottery studio) and I went from Cone 6/7 electric to Cone 10 gas and of course I am learning all the new glazing.

[@deMibPottery]

Creat :-)

[@prairietn1]

Great information thank you for posting!!

[@deMibPottery]

Thanks 🙏

[@nava-8]

The plates are awesome! Liked the whole procces, I will defently try it,and adopt your tricks, Thanks!

[@deMibPottery]

Glad you like them!

[@lindaboozer52]

Thank you for such great direction on making plates!

[@deMibPottery]

You are so welcome! :-)

[@carolynpearce4829]

Love this method and the foam bat!

[@deMibPottery]

Thanks 🙏

[@tolgadn]

Hello Dear Mikkel such an amazing video, i subbed your channel

[@deMibPottery]

Thanks. Glad you enjoy it :-)

[@alejandra_angulo]

Beautiful plates!

[@deMibPottery]

Thanks 🙏❤️

[@linda.s.gislad]

Hi Mikkel, Linda here from Iceland. Happy new year. I ansolutely love this video, it is so informative and detailed. Your plates look amazing. I have not been making a lots of plates so far because of the wiring off problem and because of the size of my kiln, which is more like a test kiln. The kiln furniture you have is amazing and saves a lot of space in the kiln.

[@deMibPottery]

Thanks. Glad I could help. By the way - Love Iceland. Been there so many times :-)

[@morningcoffeepottery5416]

Thank you!!

[@deMibPottery]

You're welcome!

[@curiousamiba]

Beautiful, thank you

[@deMibPottery]

Thank you too! :-)

[@user-bt1mo3fx7w]

Very cool plates. Never thought to use tools to roll out the plates. Thanks for the tip! Who makes the plate shelves and can they be fired to cone 6-7?

[@deMibPottery]

Thanks :-)
I got mine from BSZ in Germany and yes, I think they can go to cone 10

[@____Ann____]

Great video. I want to try the pvc tube trick.

[@deMibPottery]

You should! :-)

[@solr4cc]

This 371 clay you have fired turned brownish not black, isn't it? Very nice tutorial. Foam trick to trim nice one!

[@deMibPottery]

No, it actually turn almost black - very dark :-)

[@ngozimbakwe928]

Thank you Sir.

[@deMibPottery]

🙏

[@tamahome039]

Hi Mikkel, im very new to pottery. And looking forward to my pottery class soon. But i wonder with the clay you used for the plate, its called black clay? But im trying to find it here in Auckland New Zealand, but most of them are looking so black not like the one you use which is more like gray? So im confused. Thanks for the help. Andrea. ❤ the video.

[@deMibPottery]

Thanks :-) What clay you can find locally is always different. You have to test the clays you can get to see if they act like you want

[@dorrisjpful]

How do you get them off the bat and how do you dry them to keep them from warping?

[@deMibPottery]

I dry quicly - no cover and they release sutomatically in 1-2 days. Never warp for me

[@mugnificentpottery]

Thanks so much for sharing. Can you tell me what your bats are made from? TIA

[@deMibPottery]

MDF and wood. I have a video with more details about the bats I use here: czcams.com/video/Qpq6jF0206Q/video.html

[@metteskovgaardstorm7362]

Hi - very inspirational ---- can you please name the glazes that you are using - where to find the recipies if possible :-) ?
Also - Am I correct when you said that you brisque them stacked --- I have heard others say that they need to be bisqued standing up (sideways)?

[@deMibPottery]

Thanks :-)
The glazes I use have actually been quite a journey. The green and the gray-ish ones are based on a Black Matt glaze from John Britts mid-fire glaze book, but I removed all the original colorants and added my own. Replicating that exactly is probably not possible. The okker one is a modified yellow glaze. And again, the modifications and combination with this exact black clay I use probably makes it very difficult to replicate for others.

[@____Ann____]

Standing is safer. That way the plate only has to carry its own weight. The more vertical, the safer (unless you have a fragile rim). If you stack them 6-7 high, there is a lot of weight on the lowest plates.

[@deMibPottery]

It works much better for me to stack. Fored a lot. Never har any cracks or warping

[@malinwaldestal1813]

Beautiful! What kind of clay is it ?

[@deMibPottery]

Thanks :-)
Its 371 from G&S in Germany - as also mentioned in the video

[@budbolsnd3479]

Do you weigh the clay before you throw it?
How do you determine the finished thickness so they are all similar?

[@deMibPottery]

Yes, I weigh the clay and throwing them at same size secure dame thickness

[@gabip.8189]

Guten Tag, vielen Dank für die guten Tips. Ich schneide meine gedrehten Produkte auch nie ab, sondern drehe sie auf Gipsscheiben oder unglasierten Kacheln (die saugen besser als Holz), von denen sie sich je nach Raumklima in ein bis zwei Tagen ohne vorheriges Abschneiden abheben lassen und einen wunderschön glatten Boden haben. Meist drehe ich sie vorher nach ein paar Stunden noch auf den Kopf, damit sie regelmäßiger antrocknen. Das kann man ohne Probleme tun, da sie noch auf den Unterlagen gut festkleben.

[@deMibPottery]

The method and materials I use works really well for me :-)

[@birgittekaae8395]

Hej Mikkel
Tak for dine geniale videoer. Som ret ny i keramikkensverden er det både inspirerede og lærerrigt at følge dine videoer. Jeg har dog et spørgsmål. Jeg kan se, at dine tallerkner ikke bliver skåret af, og det virker også ret godt for mig. Jeg kunne godt tænke mig at vide om det samme gælder for dine krus, skåle vaser........ bliver de også siddende til de selv slipper battet?

[@deMibPottery]

Tak. Det afhænger lidt af om de skal trimmes i bunden. Hvis de skal det skærer jeg dem fri så de ikke bliver for tøre til trimming

[@user-vp6ub2sj6c]

What is the name of the machine

[@deMibPottery]

Which maschine?

[@emilieneubauerova4699]

😲👍👍🤏👌👋💯🍀🍀🍀

[@deMibPottery]

:-)