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I’m no good at throwing the same thing twice, so decided in order to make shot glasses, I needed to slip cast.
(finished cups available on my ETSY Store: FlusterMakes<\/a>)

My third attempt at a slip-cast mould<\/a> was a success, but how about the slip?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t have much space in my tiny flat; most of my pottery kit fits into a toolbox, so there is no way I can get a 5-liter container of pre-made slip. Also, I’m a massive bodger, so I just made my own by making clay runny. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I do it properly, I’m supposed to add a carefully measured amount of deflocculant. Well, we will see…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I have been throwing and building pots, I have been keeping casts offs and scraps in jars with water. It felt like the right thing to do. So starting with the white stoneware, I added more water and more clay till I got a sort of single cream consistency. No Idea if it would work. Mashed it up with a fork and shook it a lot. LET’S GO!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was impatient with the first pour, and the mould was still a bit damp, so I didn’t know how long to leave it. In the end, I left it an hour and the combo of damp mould and too long testing gave me slightly too thick walls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I blasted the mould in the oven before trying again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyhow, the short version; <\/p>\n\n\n\n