Ceramic Hump Mold Bowl

The hump mold throwing system works on any shimpo wheel.

Ceramic hump mold bowl.

Use a hump mold when adding feet handles or other embellishments to the outside of the shape. Day 17 hump mold ceramic bowl today s video is using a hump mold. Hump molds are a great way to easily make a wide variety of pottery pieces from ceramic bowls and cups to platters vases and more. The hydro bat hump mold is a bat that you attach to your wheel head and u.

Hump molds are convex forms over which a slab of clay can be draped. Earthenware stoneware or porcelain. They do not have grommets on the. The hump mold is made upside down and solid later it will be turned upright and hollowed out.

So what exactly is a hydro bat hump mold. With a hump mold the clay is draped over the mold creating a convex shape. Hump molds are very easy to work with and provide great results just press a slab of wet clay over the mold. Hump mold 16 x4 bowl.

Our hump mold series are designed for handbuilding. Use your favorite clay body with hump molds. Place the bat adapter on the wheelhead place your choice of molds on the bat adapter and you re ready to work. Plaster molds are not to be used for glass slumping.

Chinese clay art flowers 3 rice paper 14x18. 7 x 5 x 2. Hump mold foot bowl. Hump molds the clay is draped over the mold creating a convex shape and used when you want to add feet handles or other embellishments to the outside of the shape.

The basic bowl is pressed over the mold and i decided to try a couple of other techniques. The mold will be used to make the bottom quarter of the final bowl form that will then be built up to the finished shape and height with coils. So what exactly is a hydro bat hump mold. Hump molds make it quick and easy for production potters to turn out massive numbers of nearly identical pieces.

Hump molds are also called drape molds because you drape the clay over the mold to produce the pottery. Making the hump mold begin by making a clay mold that will be used to drape a slab over. Solid plaster hump mold.