How to Make A Pottery Teapot with Instructive Illustrations and Guides

This week’s video goes over making a teapot, together with numerous illustrations and cross-sections along the way to explain the how and why I do certain things. I hope this proves to be a useful guide for those of you making teapots! Timecodes: 0:00 - Introduction 0:15 - Throwing teapot body 4:29 - Throwing lid 6:16 - Throwing spout 8:38 - Trimming and assembling teapot 12:32 - Piercing the lid, and the reasons why 14:56 - Preparing the spout to be attached with illustrations showing proper placement 18:22 - Piercing the holes for the spout 19:58 - Attaching the spout 21:53 - Making the handle 25:10 - How I store them for drying 26:18 - Final clean up, quality control 27:05 - Finished example, (from a previous batch) Thanks for watching! ____ Instagram – TikTok – @floriangadsby Website –
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