Hey guys. In this is videoeppo. In this video in this video I will be showing you how to aquire natuarally occuring clay
In one of my pottery making videos,or the video in which you saw how to make pottery tools
I had mentioned this. So I am in a construction site here and I think there is ample clay here
So lets go, find some clay,process it and make some pottery out of it.
Right now, I am standing at a depth of six feet from the normal ground level.
from these cracks I can guess that these could be clay
Aquick test to see if I hit the right spot or not. I guess I have been lucky.
Although its looking dry and cracked from the outside,its still moist inside. Let me do a quick test
by making a pinch pot and to see if I could collect these materials.
I guess its going to be a workable material. So I am going to collect a handfull.
Okay now it seems like a bag full!!
This part of the land is got sand mixed in clay which could be very useful while doing metal casting.Well thats going to be another
Coming back home I have mixed the clay with ample water.
Its looking very slushy. I am giving it quite a nice stir. As you can see that
this mixture has got a lot of organic waste, dirt all mixed up together.
I am using a strainer to filter out big particles of sand and all the organic impurities.
Now that's quite a lot of work and its going to take a bit of time... and patience too
To filter it further more, I am using a finer strainer and repeat the process one more time
Now I have poured in all this clay water in a jute bag and tied it up. It looks quite heavy
I have then tied it up in a place where it can dry
Let me do a quick check and it looks still very wet.
Its been 24 hours and climate is very cloudy
and my clay is no where close to getting dried up
I am really sorry for the audio guys I am outside and you might have a lot of disturbance
In most of the videos I have seen on youtube people use something called a plaster board
Plaster board helps absorb water from the the clay and gets the clay into the right
consistency to work with. I thought I should make the plaster board myself.
And I'll show you the process of how I make my plaster board
but in case you are just a one timer and do not want to make the plaster board,there is a simple solution
You can stack a pile of news papers ,
lay a piece of cloth on top it and then lay your clay on top of that.I think it should work fine
I tried that for my previous video and it really worked
Now let me go ahead and make my plaster board.
now to make a plaster board I have got a couple of things here. This is an old tray. Its broken so I will
be fixing it with insulation tapes and I have two kilos of plaster of paris, some water
and let me just go ahead and show how I work.
For this you might need some tools to work with, a coat hanger,plaster of paris, A tray , A bucket.
Its an old broken tray so I am covering the cracks on it with an insulation tape.
I am using some newspapers to get the desired height
I am using a piece of plywood to use as a base for the plaster board
I am attaching a base to the plywood board
and place it inside the tray Cut a piece of coat hanger and make a piece
of coat hanger and make handles for the plaster board
Now to get the plaster of paris ready, Mix it with water and keep stirring until yo get the right consistency
Now start pouring this mixture into the tray
Once that its dry, you can separate it from the tray. Clean it a bit
Now we can get our clay jute bag , we can see that the clay is still very wet.\par
start grabbin a handful of this clay, Make some balls and turn into some shape like this
and place it on the plaster board \par once its dried up to the right consistency,
Knead it again and make rectangular pieces,and then conceal them in air tight packs
All right guys! you saw how to acquire natural clay, how to process it and how to make some
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