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Even Walls, Even Drying: Why Pots Crack, and Where
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24. Setyembre 2026DK
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Even Walls, Even Drying: Why Pots Crack, and Where

A crack is clay being pulled harder than it can hold. That pull comes from one part shrinking while another part, still wetter, refuses to move — so every crack is a record of uneven drying, and uneven drying is nearly always a record of uneven thickness. Which makes wall thickness the quiet skill underneath everything. A pot of even thickness dries at one rate throughout and is almost impossible to crack; a pot with a heavy base and thin walls is difficult to save however carefully it is dried. The useful part is that cracks are DIAGNOSTIC. Where a crack appears tells you what went wrong and when, and that is worth far more than knowing that cracking is bad.
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3 hours

Mga Tagubilin

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Feel the thickness, and check the base

Pinch the wall between finger and thumb as you work. On a thrown pot the wall should be roughly even from base to rim, or slightly thicker at the bottom where it carries the weight. The base is where thickness hides. It is under the pot, it feels solid, and it is very easy to leave twice as thick as the walls — after which the walls dry, shrink and are held by a base that is still wet. Check it with a needle tool: push it through the base until it touches the wheel head, mark where your finger sits on the needle, and pull it out. A few millimetres more than the wall is right; a centimetre is a pot that will crack or be a nuisance to trim.

Mga materyales para sa hakbang na ito:

LuwadLuwad2 kg

Mga kailangang kasangkapan:

Set ng kasangkapan sa luwadSet ng kasangkapan sa luwad
Digital na Kalibrador 6 PulgadaDigital na Kalibrador 6 Pulgada
Kasangkapang tadyang na kahoy ng magpapalayokKasangkapang tadyang na kahoy ng magpapalayok
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Where a crack appears tells you what happened

An S-CRACK in the middle of the base, often only visible after firing, means either the base was too thick and dried last, or the clay was not compressed there while throwing. Ribbing the inside of the base firmly before pulling the walls prevents most of them. A crack at a HANDLE or a spout means the two parts were at different states when joined, or the handle dried faster than the body. Cover the handles, not the pot. A crack around the RIM means the rim dried far ahead of the wall. A crack that appeared only in the kiln, with sharp clean edges, usually means water still in the clay — a drying fault presenting itself late rather than a firing fault.

Mga materyales para sa hakbang na ito:

LuwadLuwad2 kg

Mga kailangang kasangkapan:

Set ng kasangkapan sa luwadSet ng kasangkapan sa luwad
Kasangkapang tadyang na kahoy ng magpapalayokKasangkapang tadyang na kahoy ng magpapalayok
3

Compress the base, and compress the rim

COMPRESSION is running a rib or fingers firmly across clay to push its particles together. It is what stops an S-crack, and it costs one pass across the inside of the base before the walls go up. The rim gets the same treatment for a different reason: a compressed rim is denser, stronger and far less likely to go wavy or split, and it is the part of the pot a hand and a mouth touch most. Compress while the clay is still plastic. Once it stiffens, running a rib over it only smears the surface and does nothing to the particles underneath.

Mga materyales para sa hakbang na ito:

LuwadLuwad2 kg
TubigTubig1 litro

Mga kailangang kasangkapan:

Kasangkapang tadyang na kahoy ng magpapalayokKasangkapang tadyang na kahoy ng magpapalayok
EsponghaEspongha
Gulong ng magpapalayokGulong ng magpapalayok
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Add grog when the piece is big or thick

GROG is fired clay crushed to a gritty powder and mixed back into plastic clay. It has already shrunk everything it is going to shrink, so it reduces the total shrinkage and gives water channels to escape through. That makes grogged clay much more forgiving for large pieces, thick sculpture and anything with an awkward join. The trade is texture: grog is gritty to throw, hard on the hands, and shows in the finished surface. Fine work takes fine smooth clay and careful drying; big work takes grog and less worry. Choosing between them is a real decision rather than a question of quality — which is the same choice as quartersawn versus flatsawn timber.

Mga materyales para sa hakbang na ito:

Chamota (dinurog na hinurnong palayok)Chamota (dinurog na hinurnong palayok)1 kg
LuwadLuwad3 kg

Mga kailangang kasangkapan:

Canvas na pagawaan ng palayokCanvas na pagawaan ng palayok
Tumpak na TimbanganTumpak na Timbangan
Alambreng panghiwa ng luwadAlambreng panghiwa ng luwad

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