The Complexity of Making a Teapot

This week, I'm throwing, trimming and assembling a teapot with a few new features. It's always an intimidating task putting one of these together if you haven't in a while, and these were amongst the first I've made in an entire year! Thankfully, during that time off, I'm been living around teapots in my workshop that I previously made and were unsure of... The spouts were a touch too large and the positioning of them too was slightly off. I've been ruminating on how correcting these errors when I next make teapots and I'm so glad to have finally found a moment to construct a new batch. I also take you through my sketching process, how I draw out rough ideas, filling pages with proportionally different vessels before settling one a few specific shapes that's I like. I find this method of quickly 'seeing' various shapes superior to doing all of my concept work on the wheel as truth be told, it's much faster filling a page or two like this as compared to throwing all the components needed and assembling them. Thanks so much for taking your time to watch! I hope you enjoy the video. How to cone clay: https://youtu.be/69dMLpXosSk The spinner tools I use: https://youtu.be/fBK31iuMOHw 📖 • ORDER MY BOOK: https://geni.us/bymyhands 🏺 • You may also be interested in my 'A Beginner's Guide' series, which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2WJhtTF0eGhQwf8g2LHcom_KrvJpH_JT Timecodes: 0:00 - Introduction & drawing 2:00 - Weighing out the clay for the different parts 2:16 - Throwing the body 5:57 - Throwing the lid 7:32 - Throwing the spout 11:11 - How I dry the parts overnight... 11:55 - Trimming the body & lid 17:18 - Attaching the spout 22:03 - Attaching the handle 26:48 - Final quality control 27:34 - The finished teapot, for now. 28:30 - Clean up • Find out much more via the link below! https://linktr.ee/floriangadsby • Get in touch here: https://www.floriangadsby.com/contact Sign up to my newsletter here: https://www.floriangadsby.com/newsletter