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Summary: How to set the right temperature for making clay bowls; get expert tips on making your own ceramics and pottery in this free instructional video.

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Kevin Winn Kevin Winn is a master potter who sells his creations at Sugar Post Pottery in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is also a full time pottery instructor and has trained... read more

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Temperature for Making Clay Bowls

On behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to show you how to throw a pottery bowl on a potter wheel. Before I do that, we need to talk a little bit about clay. The clay body that I'm going to use today is called Hopkins white. Also what we are going to talk about is temperature. One way that potters use to measure the temperature is the kiln is that we use cone packs. In this one, I have a cone 9, cone 10, cone 11 and I like the fire to cone 11 which is approximately 2400 degrees. Cone 10 is right around 2345 degrees. This tells me as I look through the peep hole in the gas kiln the finish kiln where all the magic happens where the glaze melts into glass. I look through a peep hole and each one of these cones at a different temperature start to bend. When it gets to bending flat I know one, what temperature I'm at and when to turn the kiln off. Now I have 4 different cones that I use to fire my pieces.

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