Mixing Bronze and Steel in Stoneware Clay - ASMR Edition

Explore an innovative pottery experiment in this 20-minute ASMR video as bronze and steel are mixed into stoneware clay. Follow the entire process from wedging metal scraps into clay, throwing and trimming test bowls, glazing, and reduction firing to 1290ºC. Witness the unique results of incorporating blacksmith by-products into ceramic work, including hammer scale from steel and bronze filings. Learn about the preparation, firing, and finishing techniques used to create these experimental pieces, with detailed timecodes provided for each step of the process.

- Introduction and unboxing
- Mixing the metals, bronze and steel hammer scale into my clay
- Throwing two test bowls
- Trimming the bowls
- The trays I'll be firing these in, safety nets
- Loading the electric kiln for a bisque firing to 1000ºC
- Waxing the bowl's feet
- Glazing the bowls
- Tidying up the glazed surface
- Preparing the bowls for reduction firing
- Reduction firing my Rohde KG-340 to 1290ºC
- Unloading the gas kiln
- The fired bowls...
- Firing them a second time!
- The final, finished bowls.
- Polishing their feet
- Clean up