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In the Studio: Tools, Furniture, Fixtures and Some Helpful Techniques
A clay recycling project...
Questions & Answers... you asked!
Cheese Cutter Faceting Tool (9:19)
A time and labor saving process for softening stiff clay...
How to fix stiff clay
Sponge on a Stick
Using a pocket slab cutter and some texture ideas!
Making Pyrometric Cone Packs
Quick share about a useful studio tool.
A useful piece of studio furniture...
The Wheel Table... a Readers Success.
van Gilder ClayTools - Tools for potters!
How to make a mug rounder!
How to use 10 simple wooden tools for forming and finishing your pots!
How to Replace the wire on the wire knife
How to measure the right amount of clay...The Cutter .
10 Tips for Enhancing Creativity and Productivity
Sprig molds...
Making foot sprig molds...
Planning ahead... drawing out our ideas!
A Simple Extruder Cleaning Tip…
Refer a Friend Program
Throwing Techniques
How to make goblets...another version.
Finding solutions...making mortars and pestles.
Bad hair day! - Pitchers and Handles
Making pots for a living... sometimes it's just a job.
Skill Building; The Simple Rolled Rim…
Making lids... a 'how-to' share.
Going on the road....
Altered Bottle Forms
How to crimp the edge of bowls.
How to make sake cups!
How to make pitcher spouts.
How to lift a bowl off the pottery wheel.
How to Throw, Alter and Texture a Lidded Storage Jar
How to Throw a Storage Jar with a Rolled 'van Gilder Style' Gallery
How to Throw & Alter my Pumpkin Storage Jar - Pt 1
How to Throw & Alter my Pumpkin Storage Jar - Pt 2
How to facet pottery. Extra Wide Facets - from Square to Round!
How to Make Faceted Bowls
How to Throw 'Off the Hump' and Center Large Amounts of Clay
7 Bowls, 7 Ways! How to Throw and Alter Seven Types of Bowls on the Pottery Wheel
How to Make a Square Lasagna Dish
How to Make a Tea Bowl with Landscaped- Rim
Long lost pots...
Lifting wet pots.. no batts!
Lifting wet pots.. no batts!
How to make a Salt Cellar
Here's the Scoop!
A Quick Sushi Make
How to make a Salt Cellar!
A quick and easy make… wall pockets.
Making Thrown and Darted Teapot Spouts
Refer a Friend Program
Handles, Lugs and more...
How to make pulled handles using extruded blanks.
Beer steins and do-dahs...
How to make handles for a baking dish.
How to Make Hand built Handles Using Textured Boards
How to use 10 simple wooden tools for forming and finishing your pots!
Refer a Friend Program
Texture
Creating pattern and texture with thick slip.
Faceting and paddling cups...
I’ll Always be a clay student… decorating with slip.
Using a pocket slab cutter and some texture ideas!
Beer steins and do-dahs...
How to flute cups and bowls.
How to Chatter!
How to alter flower pot rims.
How to use slip on your pots. Slip, Dip and Comb
How to Add Texture to a Thrown Bottle and Cup
An effective slip inlay technique…
Refer a Friend Program
Trimming Techniques
The rolled foot...an alternative to trimming.
Trimming the hollow rimmed bowls…
Trimming and chattering...
Trimming Lids
How to trim mugs...skimming mugs.
How to cut holes in a colander and more...using a hole cutter.
How to get your mug rims back in round.
How to trim using a foam bat.
How to Trim Plates!
Refer a Friend Program
Glazing Techniques: Decoration, brushwork, waxing
Knowing your glazes: a glazing demo
A quick tip for glazing large pots...
Ladle poured decoration... glaze on glaze.
Ladle Poured Decoration
Glaze, wax and glaze again...
Hot waxing pots
Wax Resist On Square Plates
How I apply wax resist decoration to pots.
Questions & Answers... you asked!
Quick share about a useful studio tool.
Glazing marathon...
How to Production Glaze Mugs...just a very short vid.
Decorating in Layers with the Right Tools
Refer a Friend Program
Glazes
Rutile Green
Glaze, wax and glaze again...
Another glaze share... for cone 6 and cone 10.
Two more cone 6 glaze recipes recalculated for cone 10 oxidation firings.
Jeanie's Purple Cone 6 Oxidation Glaze
Questions & Answers... you asked!
Amber Gold...a glaze share.
Amber glaze recipe for high fire
Save money: a revised cone 6 Cream Rust recipe...
Discovering new glazes... a simple technique.
Veri Green Glaze
Another Cone 6 Glaze Share
An Amber Glaze Share
Jeanie's Purple
A Shino Glaze Share…
A Cone 6 Clear Glaze Share
3 Glaze Recipes for Cone 5-6: Waxy White and 2 Clear
Refer a Friend Program
Kilns and Firing
A Kiln Share... Making and Using Block-Spacers.
Making Pyrometric Cone Packs
Questions & Answers... you asked!
Keeping track of the numbers…
Another load on Townsend Road...
The Bisque Kiln; Firing and Cooling
Removing the skim coat on the wood kiln door.
An Electric Kiln Firing Possible Disaster… Knowledge is Good!
Refer a Friend Program
Handbuilding: Projects and Techniques
Using a pocket slab cutter and some texture ideas!
Some tips for keeping slabware flat!
A hand-building project... drinking vessels.
How to make clay hump molds from found forms..
How to make a deep slab bowl using a hump mold...step by step.
How to make a large textured slab platter.
Sprig Molds
Making foot sprig molds...
Faceted concave plates and platters
MAKING BUTTA’ SLABS
Refer a Friend Program
All About Brushes with Joe Campbell
Brush Basics for Potters
Brushes for Slips and Glazes
Brushes - Get to the Point
Joe Campbell Brushes
Decorating in Layers with the Right Tools
Refer a Friend Program
Tony Clennell
Common Grounds with Tony Clennell and book relaunch!
Provoking thoughts from Tony Clennell
Do it like you mean it!
Refer a Friend Program
Clay: History, Personalities, Opinions, Curious Stories
Tao Yao...Pottery and Dragon Kiln Village (22:23)
Long lost pots...
Holey Moly!
A Valuable Introduction...
Growing Your Business
Sharing a legacy...
There's strength in numbers...
Phillip Melton
An octopus… and a tea bowl.
Why Korea's moon jar is so iconic
Dealing with Dupuytren’s Contracture...potters take note!
Digby Hoets... an extrodinary maker!
Isaac Button Part One
Isaac Button Part Two
Isaac Button Part Three
Isaac Button Part Four
van Gilder Pottery Gallery in Gapland, MD.
Mixing clay... potters helping potters.
Moving Clay....A Labor of Love?
Blog Post on Old Pots 2015
A 1986 Interview with Bill van Gilder by the CBS TV News Magazine, 'Capital Edition'
Tiny Wren Pottery
The 1976 BBC Series: The Craft of the Potter with Mick Casson
Introducing Artist Rodney Mott
Refer a Friend Program
DIY Throwing Clay Television Series Videos
How to Throw and Flute a Bowl Using Eight Pounds of Clay (29:50)
How to Make a Colander... (14:27)
How to Make Goblets (19:29)
How to Throw a Platter and Create a Decorative Rim (19:32)
How to Make a Covered Butter Dish (18:58)
How to Make a Two Part Dip Bowl (19:28)
How to Throw a Pitcher (19:30)
How to Throw and Handle Mugs (19:36)
How to Make a Teapot (17:52)
How to Make Soup Cups with Saucers (18:25)
How to Throw a Set of Dinner Plates (19:20)
How to Throw and Trim Covered Boxes (21:02)
How to Make Batter Bowls (18:07)
How to Throw a Double Bowl Server (19:35)
How to Throw a Lidded Garlic Jar (19:25)
Feed the Birds! (19:43)
Making a Chip and Dip Server (16:03)
How to Make a Canister Set (19:31)
How to throw a Square Baking Dish
How to Throw a Vase with a Marbled Effect (19:31)
How to Make a Deep Dish Oval Baker (17:32)
How to Make Corked Storage Jars (18:03)
How to Make a Covered Soup Turene with a Ladle (17:51)
How to Make Slab Bowls (19:35)
How to make three different styles of vases...
How to Make Handled Bowls
How to make a hand-built basket...
How to make slump platters
Refer a Friend Program
Planning ahead... drawing out our ideas!
Here's a video describing an essential part of how I work.
Good pots... always,
Bill
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