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The Potters' Round Table
by Washington Street Studios
At Washington Street Studios, we believe the sharing of creative energy and knowledge will improve the quality of our art and increase the appreciation of art within our community. We are striving to create an environment where the arts are shared and appreciated. We want to grow as a family of artists and contribute to our community.The Potters' Round Table is one of our steps to share our passion for the ceramic arts. On the second Saturday of every month we offer facility as a venue for artists of all medium to share their creative energy and knowledge with other artists and art lovers. The Potters' Round Table events are free and open to the public.This is a collection of presentations given at the Potters' Round Table events.
Episodes
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Firing the Soda Kiln at Washington Street Studios
Welcome to The Potter’s Round Table, in this episode we discuss Firing the Soda Kiln at Washington Street Studios. Phil Berneburg passed away on July 21st, 2021. This is the last recording session we held for the Potters’ Round Table. In this episode Phil discusses one of his greatest passions,...
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Pottery Shorts: Why Does Plaster Set?
Welcome to Pottery Shorts, brought to you by The Potter’s Round Table, the topic for this episode is Why Does Plaster Set? Plaster can be a potter’s friend and a potter’s worst enemy. In this episode Phil explains why plaster sets. Understanding how plaster works helps to understand how to work...
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Pottery Shorts: What is a PSD
Welcome to Pottery Shorts, brought to you by The Potter’s Round Table, the topic for this episode is What is a PSD? The short answer is particle size distribution. In this episode Phil explores particle size distributions and why they are a useful tool for potters who mix their own clay or…
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Pottery Shorts: Three Tips for Using a Triple Beam Balance
Welcome to Pottery Shorts, brought to you by The Potter’s Round Table, the topic for this episode is Three Tips for Using a Triple Beam Balance. For many the triple beam balance has given way to the digital scale. And if you prefer to use the old school approach, or you just want to understand…
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Pottery Shorts: Preparation for Glazing
Welcome to Pottery Shorts, brought to you by The Potter’s Round Table, the topic for this episode is Preparation for Glazing. We often hear the tip to damp sponge a bisque piece before you glaze the pot. In this pottery short Phil walks through and demonstrates the preparation for glazing. Enjoy...
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Pottery Shorts: Buying a Used Kiln
Welcome to Pottery Shorts, brought to you by The Potter’s Round Table, the topic for this episode is Buying a Used Kiln. Buying a used kiln can be a daunting experience. In this episode Phil discusses what to look for other than structure and curb appeal. This episode could save you several…
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Functional Teapot Design
Welcome to The Potter’s Round Table, in this episode we discuss Functional Teapot Design. There are many characteristics to think about when designing a teapot for functional use. When thinking about the body, lid, spout, and handle of a teapot they can all impact the way it pours, how it is used...
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Pottery Shorts: Glazes and Disappearing Colors
Welcome to Pottery Shorts, brought to you by The Potter’s Round Table, the topic for this episode is Glazes and Disappearing Colors. Have you ever mixed your own glaze, expecting one color, and you find the color has disappeared or turned into a color that was a surprise? In this episode Phil...
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Pottery Shorts: Annoying Glaze Materials
Welcome to Pottery Shorts, brought to you by The Potter’s Round Table, the topic for this episode is Annoying Glaze Materials. If you mix your own glazes, or if you plan to, you will find some ingredients that are annoying to work with. In this episode Phil discusses several annoying ingredients...
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Pottery Shorts: Controlled Drying
Welcome to Pottery Shorts, brought to you by The Potter’s Round Table, the topic for this episode is Controlled Drying. How many times have you gone through the wedging and throwing or hand-building process, only to have a crack form during the drying process? Drying clay can create a lot of…
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Firing Schedules
Welcome to The Potter’s Round Table, in this episode we discuss Firing Schedules. Firing schedules, also known as firing programs and firing curves, are plans for controlling a kiln firing which specify the heating rates and the intermediate temperatures to follow to the final temperature. There...
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Pottery Shorts: What is a Eutectic?
Welcome to Pottery Shorts, brought to you by The Potter’s Round Table, the topic for this episode is What is a Eutectic? How does glaze melt? Many of the ingredients melt at a temperature higher than we fire. Phil gives an easy-to-understand explanation of how ingredients melt when combined and a...
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Pottery Shorts: What happens to clay in a firing?
Welcome to Pottery Shorts, brought to you by The Potter’s Round Table, the topic for this episode is What Happens to Clay in a Firing? If you have fired any pottery in the past, you will know that when we fire, the clay gets stronger and easier to handle. When we fire clay to the rated cone, the...
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Pottery Shorts: How does a glaze strengthen a pot? Or does it?
Welcome to Pottery Shorts, brought to you by The Potter’s Round Table, the topic for this episode is How Does a Glaze Strengthen a Pot? Or Does It? Have you seen a piece of pottery break and seem to explode? In this episode of Pottery Shorts Phil discusses the coefficient of thermal expansion…
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Tips for Making Professional Looking Pottery
Welcome to The Potter’s Round Table, in this episode we discuss Tips for Making Professional Looking Pottery. Just about every potter or pottery student can look at other peoples’ pots and recognize professional quality work. But what is it that makes the work look “professional”? In this...
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Pottery Shorts: Tiny Details in a Glaze
Welcome to Pottery Shorts, brought to you by The Potter’s Round Table, the topic for this episode is Tiny Details in a Glaze. Why do glazes look the way they do? We know a lot about color, but what about matte glazes, depth in glazes, textures, and glossy glass like surfaces? In this pottery…
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Pottery Shorts: How does an Oxiprobe Work?
Welcome to Pottery Shorts, brought to you by The Potter’s Round Table, the topic for this episode is How Does An Oxiprobe Work? What is an Oxiprobe? How does it work? What is the science behind an oxiprobe? In this episode we will learn more than you ever need to know about oxiprobes. The…
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Making Test Blends for Glazes and Clay Bodies
Welcome to The Potter’s Round Table, in this episode we discuss Making Test Blends for Glazes and Clay Bodies. How can you design a clay body or glaze of your own? And how can you get the proportions of the ingredients just right? In this episode Phil explains the process of line blends, triaxial...
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Pottery Shorts: How does a thermocouple work?
Welcome to Pottery Shorts, brought to you by The Potter’s Round Table, the topic for this episode is How Does A Thermocouple Work? What is a thermocouple? How does it work? What is the science behind a thermocouple? In this episode we will learn more than you ever need to know about…
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Pottery Shorts: Making Use of Specific Gravity
Welcome to Pottery Shorts, brought to you by The Potter’s Round Table, the topic for this episode is Making Use of Specific Gravity. Specific gravity is especially useful in keeping glazes mixed to the preferred consistency. The question is what is the best practice for measuring the specific...
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Pottery Shorts: Making Shrinkage Test Bars
Welcome to Pottery Shorts, brought to you by The Potter’s Round Table, the topic for this episode is Making Shrinkage Test Bars. As we all know, clay shrinks in every phase of pottery making. If you are making pots and want to be consistent in the size of the finished product, you need to know…
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Ash Glazes
Welcome to The Potter’s Round Table, the topic for this episode is Ash Glazes. Ash glazes produce unique effects and interesting textures on ceramics. And they can be formulated for all temperatures and atmospheres. In this episode Phil explains the differences between several types of ash, the...
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Pottery Shorts: Adjusting a Kiln Sitter
Welcome to Pottery Shorts, brought to you by The Potter’s Round Table, the topic for this episode is Adjusting a Kiln Sitter. A kiln sitter that is not in adjustment can fail to stop a kiln from overfiring, or can be the cause of an underfired kiln load. Phil discusses how to test if the sitter...
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Pottery Shorts: Using Cones in a Kiln Sitter
Welcome to Pottery Shorts, brought to you by The Potter’s Round Table, the topic for this episode is Using Cones in a Kiln Sitter. A kiln sitter requires the use of cones to fire a kiln. In this episode Phil Berneburg shares tips to help make sure the kiln sitter is properly loaded and how to...
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Pottery Shorts: Making Cone Packs
Welcome to Pottery Shorts, brought to you by The Potter’s Round Table, the topic for this episode is Making Cone Packs. Using cones is the most reliable approach to firing a kiln and making kiln packs is an important step of the process. In this episode Phil Berneburg shares tips on how to load...
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Improving Visibility of Cones in an Electric Kiln Firing
Welcome to Pottery Shorts, brought to you by The Potter’s Round Table, the topic for this episode is Improving the Visibility of Cones in an Electric Kiln Firing. Using cones is the most reliable approach to firing a kiln and it can be difficult to see the cones when the kiln is at high...
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Reduction Firing in a Gas Kiln
Welcome to The Potter’s Round Table, the topic for this episode is Reduction Firing in a Gas Kiln: A General Procedure. Working with a gas kiln can be quite daunting. There are updraft, downdraft, propane and natural gas-fired, large and small gas kilns, but all gas kilns have certain features…
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Construction of a Gas Fired Soda Kiln Part 3
Welcome to The Potter’s Round Table slideshow of the construction of a gas-fired soda Kiln at Washington Street Studios. The slideshow will walk through the design, features, and construction step-by-step with photos and explanations. In part one of the three-part series and we covered the kiln...
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Construction of a Gas Fired Soda Kiln Part 2
Welcome to The Potter’s Round Table slideshow of the construction of a gas-fired soda Kiln at Washington Street Studios. The slideshow will walk through the design, features, and construction step-by-step with photos and explanations. In part one of the three-part series and we covered the kiln...
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Construction of a Gas-Fired Soda Kiln Part 1
Welcome to The Potter’s Round Table slideshow of the construction of a gas-fired soda Kiln at Washington Street Studios. The slideshow will walk through the design, features, and construction step-by-step with photos and explanations. This is part one of the three-part series and we will cover…
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What Glaze Recipes Can Tell You
Welcome to The Potter’s Round Table, the topic today is What Glaze Recipes Can Tell You. Want to get some idea of what a glaze might be like before you make it up? Glaze names and titles do not always accurately and completely describe the glazes. Once you have learned a little about common glaze...
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An Introduction to Glaze Testing Part 2
Welcome to The Potter’s Round Table, the topic today is An Introduction to Glaze Testing Part 2. One way to learn how to fix problems with your glaze is to understand what each ingredient does and how it affects the final glaze. This mini-series on glaze testing will explore a simple glaze recipe...
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Tips for Buying Used Pottery Equipment
Welcome to the final episode in the Understanding Pottery series, Chapter 26: Tips for Buying Used Pottery Equipment. They say that you can pick out a horse by looking at its teeth, and kicking tires is supposedly a good way to judge a car. But what do you look for when buying used (or…
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Critiquing Your Own Pottery Part 2
Welcome to Understanding Pottery, Chapter 25: Critiquing Your Own Pottery: Design Principles You Can Use – Part 2. Critiquing works of art usually involves three different aspects of the work: the composition or design of the work itself, the techniques used to produce the work, and the concept…
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Critiquing Your Own Pottery Part 1
Welcome to Understanding Pottery, Chapter 25: Critiquing Your Own Pottery: Design Principles You Can Use – Part 1. Critiquing works of art usually involves three different aspects of the work: the composition or design of the work itself, the techniques used to produce the work, and the concept…
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An Introduction to Glaze Testing Part 1
Welcome to The Potter’s Round Table, the topic today is An Introduction to Glaze Testing. One way to learn how to fix problems with your glaze is to understand what each ingredient does and how it affects the final glaze. This mini-series on glaze testing will explore a simple glaze recipe and…
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Personal Safety in the Pottery Studio
Welcome to Understanding Pottery, Chapter 24: Personal Safety in the Pottery Studio. Materials used in ceramics can be unsafe if used improperly. In this video Phil explores safe practices, material handling procedures and the tools required to help minimize the risk associated with the ceramic...
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Pottery Figurin' (Math for Potters) Part 2
Welcome to Understanding Pottery, Chapter 23: Pottery Figurin’ (Math for Potters) Part 2. Math? And pottery? What is this, high school all over again? Well, no, but there are a number of occasions during the making of pottery that knowledge of some simple math calculations can be very useful…
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Pottery Figurin' (Math for Potters) Part 1
Welcome to Understanding Pottery, Chapter 23: Pottery Figurin’ (Math for Potters) Part 1. Math? And pottery? What is this, high school all over again? Well, no, but there are a number of occasions during the making of pottery that knowledge of some simple math calculations can be very useful…
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Pottery and Physics
Welcome to Understanding Pottery, Chapter 22: Pottery and Physics. Physics is the science of matter and energy and their interactions. When you hear the word “physics” you probably think of things like nuclear power, electronics, or rocket science, but physics is deeply involved in our everyday...
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Thixotropy, Quartz Inversions and Other Pottery Mysteries Part 3
Welcome to Understanding Pottery, Chapter 21: Thixotropy, Quartz Inversions and Other Pottery Mysteries Part 3. Many scientific terms and theories have a profound impact in the field of ceramics. Defining these terms and their implications in pottery provide the information to understand what is...
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Thixotropy, Quartz Inversions and Other Pottery Mysteries Part 2
Welcome to Understanding Pottery, Chapter 21: Thixotropy, Quartz Inversions and Other Pottery Mysteries Part 2. Many scientific terms and theories have a profound impact in the field of ceramics. Defining these terms and their implications in pottery provide the information to understand what is...
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Operating a Small Gas Kiln
Welcome to the Potters’ Round Table lecture on Operating a Small Gas Kiln. Gas kilns can produce some of the most beautify textures and colors in the entire ceramic spectrum. And firing a gas kiln can be an efficient and effective path to an atmospheric firing. There are many variables that can...
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Thixotropy, Quartz Inversions and Other Pottery Mysteries Part 1
Welcome to Understanding Pottery, Chapter 21: Thixotropy, Quartz Inversions and Other Pottery Mysteries Part 1. Many scientific terms and theories have a profound impact in the field of ceramics. Defining these terms and their implications in pottery provide the information to understand what is...
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Pottery Myths, Errors and Misconceptions Part 3
Welcome to Understanding Pottery, Chapter 20: Pottery Myths, Errors and Misconceptions Part 3. Many terms and theories have surfaced over the years in the field of ceramics, many with no basis in science or physics. We continue this exploration of many pottery related myths, errors and...
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Pottery Myths, Errors and Misconceptions Part 2
Welcome to Understanding Pottery, Chapter 20: Pottery Myths, Errors and Misconceptions Part 2. Many terms and theories have surfaced over the years in the field of ceramics, many with no basis in science or physics. We continue this exploration of many pottery related myths, errors and...
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Pottery Myths, Errors and Misconceptions Part 1
Welcome to Understanding Pottery, Chapter 20: Pottery Myths, Errors and Misconceptions Part 1. Many terms and theories have surfaced over the years in the field of ceramics, many with no basis in science or physics. We are going to explore many pottery related myths, errors and misconceptions…
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Glaze Defects
Welcome to Understanding Pottery, Chapter 19: Glaze Defects. There seem to be so many ways that bad things can happen to good pots. Defects in fired ceramics can originate with the clay, the glaze, as well as the actual firing process. This episode we’ll discuss glaze defects that occur during…
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Defects in Fired Clay
Welcome to Understanding Pottery, Chapter 18: Defects in Fired Clay or Clay Defects. There seem to be so many ways that bad things can happen to good pots. Defects in fired ceramics can originate with the clay, the glaze, as well as the actual firing process. This episode we’ll discuss defects in...
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Kiln Performance Problems
Welcome to Understanding Pottery, Chapter 17: Kiln Performance Problems. There seem to be so many ways that bad things can happen to good pots. Defects in fired ceramics can originate with the clay, the glaze, as well as the actual firing process. This episode we’ll discuss problems with kiln...
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At Washington Street Studios, we believe the sharing of creative energy and knowledge will improve the quality of our art and increase the appreciation of art within our community. We are striving to create an environment where the arts are shared and appreciated. We want to grow as a family of artists and contribute to our community.The Potters' Round Table is one of our steps to share our passion for the ceramic arts. On the second Saturday of every month we offer facility as a venue for artists of all medium to share their creative energy and knowledge with other artists and art lovers. The Potters' Round Table events are free and open to the public.This is a collection of presentations given at the Potters' Round Table events.
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