A Brief Look into Making Pots

    Hello everyone, this week I was a little pressed for time so it will be more brief than usual.  

    So, to start, I just want to say that everything is alright with Nigel's channel. Youtube was able to get back to him and restore all of his videos. Everything is back to how it was before he was hacked, so that's good. 

     What I looked at this week were three videos that Nigel put out. these give some good insight into how pots are made for bonsai. 

    The first one here is Izabella making a pot on her own to give Nigel and opportunity to see it being done firsthand. 

    The second video is Nigel giving it a try with Izabella helping him along the way. He was working with a smaller amount of clay which must be easier to work with. One thing I noticed was that Nigel always had the potter's wheel at a low speed, likely because it could be pretty intimidating when you haven't done any work on the wheel at all.  

    In this last one, they finish up their pots and add feet to them. What I thought was neat in this one is that they used stamps to make the patterns for the feet. I assumed that they made the pattern themselves but having a stamp makes this process take a lot less time.  

    That's all I got to for this week. I will be finishing up the work I can on my trees and filling in the gaps in my research. See you all next time.