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Summary: How to wax the pot in a pottery project; learn this and more in this free arts and crafts video series taught by a pottery expert.

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Vincent Sansone Vincent Sansone is Director of the Ceramics department at Crealde School of Art in Winter Park, Fl. He holds a MFA in ceramic arts and teaches classes weekly... read more

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Ceramics & Pottery: Waxing the Pot

Hi! My name is Vincent Sansone and I am the Head of the Ceramics Department here at Cradle School of Art in Winter Park. Today for Expert Village I am going to show you how to wax and glaze a pot that has been bisque fired that is the first firing of the process. So, first I need to apply the wax with the sponge and I have to be careful not to use too much wax because if I get wax where I do not want it then I am either going to have to scrape it off with a knife and then sand it down or else I am going to have to bisque fire it again to burn the wax off. The wax keeps the glaze from sticking to the bottom of the pot and makes it much easier to wipe the bottom of the pot off. You can have glaze on the bottom of the pot because then when it melts it would stick to the shelf and ruin you shelf and also ruin the pot because the only way to get it up off the shelf then is to break it. So, I have to also wax the area where the lid is going to fit because we do not want the two pieces to stick together, so we do not want any glaze there. That section is done, and now I will wax the rim of this lid. I want a nice clean line so that it looks like you planned doing it this way. It adds to the value of the pot if it is made correctly. Okay, now you see how wax the inside of this; that overlaps in case the glaze would run a little a little bit. It is not going to touch the area where the lid fits into the pot.

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