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RESOURCES
Welcome to our resources and tutorials page, tailored to help you work successfully in our community studio.
Do you have a studio practice or protocol question? You're might not be the only one! Post it to our "Member Support" sub-group on Discord for our Facility Committee to answer weekly.
WORKBOOKS
GLAZE 101: Basics for Success
Glaze Defects: What's Wrong?
Pricing Your Work to Sell
Glazing success depends on many different variables in a community studio. Learn to avoid future glaze mishaps, clarify procedure, and develop a signature style!
The first step to troubleshooting is learning what's wrong!
Download this handy guide to learn and decipher a glazing defect.
Start here if you're looking for a formula to begin pricing your work to sell.
Suitable for new to experienced sellers!
Clean It Like You Mean It!
A complete cleaning checklist to leave the studio perfect for the next potter. Tailored to our studio. We take pride in our shared space!
CLEANING TUTORIALS
Cleaning Your Wheel
This is the best practice for cleaning your wheel efficiently, saving time and most importantly, saving water!
Remember: Clean everything! Splash pan, wheel head, wheel legs, cord, and ON/OFF button. No clay left behind!
Step 1: Unclip splash pan. Pour throwing water into throwing bucket. Use your sponge to clean majority of clay from splash pan and wheel head.
Step 3: Get water from bucket labeled: "Washing Water." Use this to make a second-pass cleaning your wheel, splash pan, tools and throwing bucket. When complete, throw water back into "Washing Water."
Step 4: With a clean bucket and clean sponge, get a small amount of fresh water from the tap. Clean everything for a third, final time.
TIP: Use a dry microfiber cloth as a final wipe-down to capture any remaining clay.
Step 2: When all chunks of clay are removed from wheel, dispose chunky clay water into "Clay Sludge" bucket.
Step 5: Clean the floor with a mop. This includes everywhere under and around your wheel, and any spills made around the sink.
Glaze Water Protocol
Water conservation and reuse is imperative in our studio to reduce excessive water collection (since we can't put it down the drain) and allows us to making recycled glaze.
Always think before turning on the tap! Fresh tap water is to be used very sparingly as a final, clean rinse.
If using Commercial Glazes, keep this water separate and dispose dirty water in the "Commercial" Bucket.
Step 1: Pour Clear Water into a small container. Use this to clean the bottoms of your pots, tools and brushes.
Step 2: Clean tools in two-parts. First using Glaze Water, then Clear Water for a final, clean rinse.
Step 3: Clean the "magic carpets" in the same two-part method. Pour dirty water over carpets and squeegie water into wash basins, until no glaze rings are visible.
Step 5: Dispose of dirty water into it's appropriate "Glaze Water" bucket. Dirty Commercial Glaze Water is put in a separate bucket, labeled accordingly.
Studio Mop
The studio mop is located next to the clay cabinet.
It can be used to cleanup both clay and glaze.
Note: Never wring out mop water in the "Clean Bucket."
Step 1: Always dip the mop in clean water, and wring out in the dirty water bucket.
Step 2: To start, dip the mop in clean water and wring out in the dirty bucket. Clean the floor. Wring out excess water in the dirty bucket. Repeat!