Mistakes Happen: Reglazing and Refiring a Sunflower Bowl to Fix a Thin Glaze!

This video shows how to fix an issue that many potters have at some point in their pot-making. That is having a pot come out of the kiln with less than desired results, and reglazing and refiring it until it is successful. I have a bowl where I didn’t apply enough glaze, and had to refire it. I used Mayco Stroke and Coat, (which has a huge range from lowfire to cone 6, and even some go to cone 10.) The clay body is Standard 225 Brown Stoneware, with a 2% absorption at cone 6 and 12% shrinkage. The imagery of the sunflowers was inspired by the situation happening now in Ukraine, in support of the Ukrainans living under attack, as the world rallies around them. Cone 6; Ramphold Drop soak program, medium speed. Skutt programming Rate 200 Temp 180 Hold (whatever needed) Rate 200 Temp 250 Hold 0 Segment three continue Rate 400 Temp 1000 Hold 0 Segment four continue Rate 180 (This is slow for quarts inversion) Temo 1150 Hold 0 Segment 5 continued Rate 300 Temo 1917 Hold 0 Segment 6 Rate 120 Temp 2167 Hold 20 minutes Segment 7 Rate 400 Temp 2067 Hold 20 min https://digitalfire.com/glossary/drop-and-soak+firing Check out my Amazon Influencer Store where I have recommendations for some of my favorite tools and products many of which I use in my videos- which are available on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/shop/karanspotsandglass For many of the great tools I used in the video check out this link to a live Googledoc I continually update with lots of my favorite tools on Amazon using my associate links! (also some non-amazon suggestions on here!) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XbYPQjjJnHrQG5xyWGMHZkEcZj5N8VnUAbFZdJRrRmU/edit?usp=sharing I am a public high school ceramics teacher at William Mason High School in Mason, Ohio. (Mason is currently the largest high school in Ohio!) As a potter, I have been working in clay for over 30 years, and I have been teaching for over 30 years, the past 20+ have been specifically teaching high school ceramics. I love what I do! I have my own studio in my home basement, where I work on my personal pottery for my Etsy site; https://www.etsy.com/shop/KaransPotsAndGlass I started my Youtube channel several years ago, to make videos to help my students if they are absent and miss a demo, or if they would like to explore more advanced techniques independently. I have been amazed to reach such a wider audience than my own students! Please subscribe to my channel if you would like to receive channel updates, or would like to learn more about clay and studio processes! Full disclosure: Mayco did send me some glazes to try for my videos!