Primitive technology: Slow Pottery Wheel
Added 2022-12-01 21:00:07 +0000 UTCI made a slow potters wheel. It's used to form pots while turning around a central axis. Having a central axis, this is a true potters wheel unlike the round batter plates I have formed pots on in the last video. It is the intermediate step between the batter plate and the kick wheel. Much appreciated.
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Thanks for the advice, I'll consider it. The grog :clay ratio was about 1:2 but I didn't measure it carefully. I read it was supposed to be 1:1 but that made the clay weaker. I've never had an issue with air bubbles in the clay, I just knead the clay and use it as is, maybe this removes the air bubbles sufficiently for firring. Burnishing lessens the leakage of the pot but it still leaks a bit. There's a technique where the pot is dipped in slip when dry and then burnished that apparently lowers leakage significantly but I haven't tested it yet. There are candle nuts here but they only form at certain times of the year, the oil from which is food grade. Thanks for the comment glad you like the videos.
Primitive Technology
2022-12-08 19:52:58 +0000 UTCJohn, I really enjoy your videos. I could watch them all day. I realize what you do takes a lot of time. But maybe you could make the videos a bit longer. That should improve your monetization as well as give your viewers more to watch. Showing fails in detail would also be educational as well. Clearly you've mastered primitive pottery, but could you try to explain what percentages of grog you use for different purposes. I don't remember seeing you wedge the clay. How do you remove air bubbles? How much do you feel burnishing decreases the porosity of the pots? Do you have any source of food grade oils that could be used to coat the inside of the pots with before firing. I'm wondering if the residue left behind by the oils being burned off would decrease the porosity like seasoning a cast iron skillet. The temperature during firing is probably too hot and wouldn't leave any residue, but maybe it could be applied after firing and then placed in a much cooler firing to seal the pot. I would really like to see usable primitive cookware with food preparation. It wouldn't matter to me if you bought the food. I'd hardly expect you to grow or hunt for the food. It is the exploration of the primitive pottery that I find so fascinating(along with everything else you do). Don't bother answering my post. I just wanted to give you some ideas for things that interest me and might interest other viewers. Again, thank you for creating my favorite YouTube channel.
Troy Cook
2022-12-08 18:35:56 +0000 UTCThanks, I'll look into it. See what food I can come up with in the bush.
Primitive Technology
2022-12-04 08:18:53 +0000 UTCHave you considered doing some food technologies, especially any that require good pottery? On Food and Cooking by Harold McGee has some neat stuff. You can do some baking with pearlash (Bread section > Innovations in Leavening). Alkaline potassium carbonate from refined potash (similar to clay refinement in sluice) will react with acid in food to produce carbon dioxide. It's a precursor to baking powder. Goes well with grain grinding. Good pottery can protect against water losses in longer term fermentation, wood alcohols are pretty useful for a lot of applications
Jordan Smith
2022-12-04 06:12:07 +0000 UTC
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