Pottery

How to make stone age weapon/tools using only fire and clay
and

How to make glue / pitch in the wood :

Bow drill fire : Complete step by step guide here !

Hand Drill fire : How to get it done without injuries

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[TrollDragomir]

You could make it taller, but everyone is saying that. However, if it so happens that it ever breaks - don't throw the cracked parts away! You can later mill them into dust and add to the clay mixture, making it much tougher in structure and easier to cook.

Another thing is that if you want to really cook your pots - it needs to be in a low oxygen athmosphere. Traditionally, you'd produce a lot of burning charcoal embers under and over the clay pots, then cover them with leaves, and with a layer of dirt on top. If you do it right they should burn hot and the risk of breaking will be minimised. Then the last thing you can do is build a furnace for cooking clay (funny enough - the furnace should also be made of clay), and if you manage to get the pots to be visually red hot you can be 100% certain that they won't turn back into clay when exposed to water, even for great lengths of time.

[pyromaniac]

Tip: If you go out in the woods after a day of rainfall looking for clay, chances are the most abundant deposits are in spots where water is stagnant and won't soak into the soil. Another way to tell is by finding bare patches of soil in places well bathed in sunlight. Clay can make it difficult for some plants to grow even when it has a good amount of light

[sycodeathman]

Hey man that's a really good first attempt, not everyone manages to successfully fire a clay object using native materials on their first try.

My best advice is to wedge your clay before you use it to make things next time. Clay particles are shaped like very small flat plates, when they settle together in nature they are all jumbled up. If you try to fire clay that has all the particles jumbled like this it can increase the chance of cracks or make your products fragile. When you wedge clay, what you're doing is forcing the clay particles to line up flat against one another, which makes the clay structure tie together and become much stronger. Wedging also makes clay easier to work with, as it wants to hold its shape a little more instead of sagging.

To wedge clay you will need to take lumps of clay about the size of a fist and throw them again and again against a flat surface like a rock. As long as the clay is forced to deform and stretch again and again it will become wedged. It's like how blacksmiths would fold steel on itself over and over again, except instead of folding you should just squish the clay back into a ball again as you continue to wedge, to prevent bubbles from being formed.

When I first tried to use native clay I didn't know about wedging, and the clay I was using had sand in it, so trying to make it keep a shape was really hard. Since then I found better very clean clay, and learned about wedging, and now my pots are turning out much much better looking. I also found that by first lighting a small fire with the pot buried inside it, then continuing to add sticks until the entire pot is buried in a large amount of embers, then adding piles of dry grass, the pot will be heated up slowly enough to not crack it, all the way up to firing temperature, then the layer of ashes from the burned grass slows down how fast the charcoals can burn, keeping the temperature high for a long time without needing a huge amount of fuel, and without building a kiln. That kind of firing works best in a shallow hole in the ground, just to stop ashes from blowing away too quickly and keeping wind off of the pot if it gets exposed.

Good luck on your next clay projects!

[ppger]

At 4:43, awesome tattoo. "I adapt to Mother Nature and she will provide!" Great tattoo picture beneath that saying as well!

[thisguy]

You're a king in my book. I love the way you dig into the minutia of everything.

[TheRunereaper]

This is the best channel on YT. The heartbeat at the start of your last one should be on ALL your videos. This one is a bit of a WOW. In all of them there is an element of making something from nothing. I thought you might finish this one with your dog drinking his fill from the bowl. Encore merci Cedrik, tes efforts nous enrichissent tous. Paul

[TorahGonzalez]

Your quality standards are way too high, it looks wonderful. I'm subscribing the hell out of your channel, man. Great videos.

[susanfromthemountains]

👍 awesome! We live where the ground is full of clay. I can't grow crops here in my land because of it. BUT, I can make pottery!! I found my new retirement hobby! Thank you! 🙂

[jiujitsu]

Excellent work! I love how you lifted the board and the oxygen brought it to life. Amazing! Blessings from Arizona!

[Waldhandwerk]

Nice, cool and good Cedrik! Great job.

[Waldwaerts]

Perfect demonstration. That was as basic as it can get. Very well done!

[gamblemadman]

Good stuff mate, you've got yourself a 100% primitive clay vessel

[kan-zee]

Pinch pot and coil pots are the best in the bush...great job Cedrik !!

[garrett]

great video, thanks for this. one tip on pottery is to allow it to air dry for a while before going into the fire. this allows the moisture inside to evaporate. the way you do it here can seal the moisture inside and it may crack when heated and that moisture tries to expand.

[BoberSmink]

I love doing this type of stuff but I am in scotland so about 200 days of the year is below 10c lol and the rest are quite bad too but the few sunny days wee get in the summer are spent in the forest, it makes me appreciate it more i think

[livingskills]

great effort with that handdrill! it´s killing me everytime... love the fact you use only stonetools...shows amazingly how it was done back then! ....
...nice clay you got there and for sure nice pott!...amazing, most of the thickpotts tend to crack! amazing..
unbelievably i just found you today...and not earlier!!

[amadouvier]

Pas mal bon Cédrick! Fais attention de ne pas emprisonner des bulles d'air quand tu montes tes colombins et tes plaques. Résultat impressionnant!

[CarolinaChrisOutdoors]

Blisters are a sign of a determined soul... Healing is the reward! Nice job!!!!

[andreborsch]

Wow, congratulations. Fantastic bowl. First time I saw somebody successful doing this in the woods with found clay. TU

[abiskop]

Hey Cedrik, really good videos and techniques. Also I really like the fact that you are using no fancy gear at all, only a simple knife depending on the task. By the way, just realized how much your English has improved since your ~2011 videos, wow ^^ Cheers!