Rock Slab Pottery (ceramic)
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discusmike
Omono
That's pretty bad ass
Vance Wood
Lord Mugo
Very nice looks like Lava.
zachkent29
Mame
Saw this on Instagram. Awesome!
JoeR
Masterpiece
Finally, a well designed slab with ample room! Awesome pot/slab.
Since you said it was your biggest pot ever made I am curious what the dimensions are.
I also would like to know how you made it. It looks as if you made a normal rectangular pot and then layered irregular slabs of clay on it and then shaped it to look like stone. Did you press real stone onto it for texture?
Since you said it was your biggest pot ever made I am curious what the dimensions are.
I also would like to know how you made it. It looks as if you made a normal rectangular pot and then layered irregular slabs of clay on it and then shaped it to look like stone. Did you press real stone onto it for texture?
nite_owl_studios
Yamadori
Thanks you Mike, Vance and Zach! I appreciate your kind words. Not a bad first shot at this type of design. Definitely see things I will do differently on future slab designs. Looking forward to building more.
nite_owl_studios
Yamadori
Hi Joe. Thank you for your kind words as well. I definitely see a multitude of things that I will do differently in my future builds of rock/slab pottery.
This pot is large (for me) around 26x21" on the inside measurements. I've never measured the total length and width of the pots exterior, but you're looking at another 11-12" in width. The build of this pot involved 75 pounds of wet clay.
You're dead on...I started with a simple, rectangle pot. My original idea was to do like you said and build directly off the walls of the pot with slabs...this method didn't work out so well and was going to add even more weight to the finished pot. My solution to this was to basically build a double walled pot to cut down on weight, material and chances of cracking during drying and firing. I used a variety of tools to create the shaped of the rock form. Anything from pieces of wood, concrete and brushed were used to created the textures.
This pot is large (for me) around 26x21" on the inside measurements. I've never measured the total length and width of the pots exterior, but you're looking at another 11-12" in width. The build of this pot involved 75 pounds of wet clay.
You're dead on...I started with a simple, rectangle pot. My original idea was to do like you said and build directly off the walls of the pot with slabs...this method didn't work out so well and was going to add even more weight to the finished pot. My solution to this was to basically build a double walled pot to cut down on weight, material and chances of cracking during drying and firing. I used a variety of tools to create the shaped of the rock form. Anything from pieces of wood, concrete and brushed were used to created the textures.
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
That is......Damn! Mad skills!
Too nice!
Great texture!
You're definitely on to something!
Awesome!
Sorce
Too nice!
Great texture!
You're definitely on to something!
Awesome!
Sorce
JoeR
Masterpiece
75 pounds of wet clay is impressive, thats a ton of clay! Very awesome
M. Frary
Bonsai Godzilla
Is it for sale?
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
Deserves topness.
Sorce
Sorce
Smoke
Ignore-Amus
Smoke
Ignore-Amus
I used to make my own rock molds for model trains in the early eighties. I made them with a product called mold-it. It was a liquid latex stuff. I painted the appropriate rock with a coat, and let dry, like ten minutes. Then applied gauze into another wet coat for reinforcement. Then painted on about 6 more coats. This gave me a mold I could peel off the rock and fill with plaster and stick onto my scenery. They were about 1/8 inch thick rubber molds. You could press clay into them and affix them to the pot and just peel the mold off. The molds are so easy to make you could make dozens and never see the same rock pattern twice. A box of sand works well for pressing the clay.
Cool beans.
Cool beans.
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
That's awesome. I read about it, but never got around to using it.
You ever sell trees to Garden Railroaders our there in the sunny?
I figure there would be a high paying niche market for it!
Sorce
Frozentreehugger
Masterpiece
That pot is bad ass . I am no potter . Keep thinking about it but it looks like a worse addiction than bonsai . 
keep thinking about building slab pot . There is plenty of people that use cement and cement fondue . But my concern is looking for something for hardy trees in the north . And others that have tried cement have failures in the winter . To water absorbing . Can’t take the freezing . I’m thinking of trying fibreglass it’s light strong water proof . One of the texture finish I’m considering is just sprinkle fine sieved . Rock dust on the sticky glass . Any thoughts from you pro pot people
keep thinking about building slab pot . There is plenty of people that use cement and cement fondue . But my concern is looking for something for hardy trees in the north . And others that have tried cement have failures in the winter . To water absorbing . Can’t take the freezing . I’m thinking of trying fibreglass it’s light strong water proof . One of the texture finish I’m considering is just sprinkle fine sieved . Rock dust on the sticky glass . Any thoughts from you pro pot peopleSimilar threads
