Making A Clay Bowl?

[FireMeetsIce]

I was wondering if anyone knows about pottery or anything. I want to make a little phunnel bowl that will fit inside my spice funnel on my HHH (arizona tea bottle design). Can an oven work like a kiln if I leaving it in there long enough? Also I am guessing I would need to glaze the bowl, anyone know about any of that? Edited April 19, 2008 by FireMeetsIce

[hday]

Unless your oven does over 1000 degrees, you're out of luck. Some modeling clays, like Sculpy, can cook in an oven but are not a good idea for a bowl. There's a lot of questioning about glaze, and no bowl needs to be glazed. Most sellers offer unglazed bowls.

If you really wanted to make one, check out a local school or university. Some cities offer classes or open studios at art centers. All of these places will have the proper clays, kilns and food-safe glazes for you to use.

You could even do something like this person. http://www.hookahforum.com/index.php?showtopic=18543

A glass cutting bit and a candlestick holder can work just as well. It will get really hot though, when you use it.

[teq]

Super Sculpey works, but you absolutely need to glaze it.

It cures at a normal oven temperature and only takes 15min. Also, it can be drilled, so you wouldn't even need to form a hole before baking it. Edited April 20, 2008 by teq

[hday]

I'm almost positive that sculpey isn't even food safe with a glaze. I can't imagine that you could even properly glaze sculpey. But I've never worked with Super Sculpey, and they don't have much information about their products on their website.

[teq]

It will impart a taste the first few times its smoked, but it's entirely non-toxic.

If you pack it with mint and heat it in the oven, it'll be good to use.

[Place_Name_Here]

clay will not work n a oven, find a kiln
use clay that has slightly more body than porcelen. many many egyptian bowls seem to be a terracotta or earthenware or Raccue.
I also am pretty shure they dont hand build them. most bowls look thrown on a potters wheel to me. As far as glazes go if your useing the right glaze for the right clay and right temprature you will be fine. Or you can salt fire them and the clay will create its own glaze whe combined with the silica of the salt and will look like an egyptian bowl. I have been think of makeing my own bowls for a while, i have 50 pounds of terra-cotta and 50-pounds of raccue clay, so when summer roles around ill put up a fully documented workshop on how to make bowls.
once you hav your final bowl madeyou can also create a plaster mold and produce slip castings.

also, from observation i think my phunnel is probably ether raccue or earthenware because is seems to by a off white after being bisked, porcelen turns a more true white after fireing and also doesnt contain the amount of grogg (wich creats body) that the lay the phunel is made out of. Edited April 21, 2008 by Place_Name_Here

[teq]

clay will not work n a oven, find a kiln

Sculpey and Super Sculpey are polymer clay designed for rapid sculpting. It's used mostly for modeling, but can be used for pottery.

Takes 15min to harden in a normal oven.

[Place_Name_Here]

im just saying as a sculpter i would never use sculpy for anything...expesialy a hookah bowl

[njridergus]

here is a photo of my hookah bowl that i just modified today. It was tiny before! I used Sculpey III clay and Sculpey satin glaze. Now my hookah should burn fuller/less harsh. How many layers of glaze would you all recommend?




-Steve

[hookah_hoop]

I wouldn't use Sculpy for anything you ingest. The good news is you don't need a kiln to fire regular clay. You can pit fire your clay without a kiln. Pit firing clay has been around for centuries and is still used for pottery today.
Step 1- Model your clay into a bowl and allow it to dry on a shelf until completely dry
Step 2- Go outside and dig a hole
Step 3- Fill said hole with lots and lots of wood, pack that thing tight, it'll have to burn hot and long.
Step 4- Tightly wrap your clay bowl in paper, leaves, seaweed, and other burnable natural objects to make cool designs on your new bowl.
Step 5- Carefully place wrapped bowl way down low inside the pit full of wood.
Step 6- Light.
Step 7- Don't leave your fire unattended and accidentally burn your moms house down.
Step 8- Keep stoking the fire with more wood.
Step 9- When the fire has burned long enough let it go out by itself then leave the ashes there to cool for a day.
Step 10- Dig in the ashes to find your killer new bowl and hope it didn't shrink too small to fit your hookah.
Step 11- Brag to your friends, "Look what I made!"
Step 12- Foster your new found interest in ceramics and make bowls for all your friends.
Step 13- Thank me later.

[chromecarz00]

you havve to post pix...

[hookah_hoop]

you havve to post pix...

I hear that Google and other search engines are perfect for doing such research on your own, especially when you're already sitting in front of a computer.

[chromecarz00]

of your process lol

[peter2008]

This technique can be used by children, teens
or adults. The ball into a bowl hand-building technique can also be
used with self-hardening clay or with clay that will be fired in a
kiln. Kids can also do this with Play-doh.
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[njridergus]

alright so the sculpey did NOT work!! after using the modified bowl for the first time i lifted the foil and saw that the scupey was burning!! ahhh the toxins entering my body.... it was nasty. so do not use sculpey, it burns! and i even glazed it with 2 layers and it still burnt through.

steve

[Nebulaluna]

If you make a bowl out of ceramic clay you can take it to a local ceramic shop and have them fire it for you.
It should only cost a small amount.
My mom and grandma did ceramics at a local shop. The owner fired stuff for people all the time.