Make Any Shape on the Potter's Wheel | 4 Problems & How to Fix Them
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2024
- These are four problems I often see my pottery students struggle with when learning to pull cylinders on the wheel. I hope these tips help you diagnose what's going wrong, and gives you an idea of how to fix it. If you would like to see a longer, more in-depth video, let me know in the comments.
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00:00 - Start
00:22 - 1. Tearing Your Cylinder
01:38 - 2. Thick, Short Walls
02:35 - 3. Uneven Wall Thickness
03:03 - 4. Wobbly Rims 
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I love it when you say the problem and then tell how to fix it! Tks so much
I find your videos really informative, easy, make’s sense, thank you 😊
Yes, I would like opening tips - I am not a beginner potter, but still struggle with attaining and maintaining flat bottoms in cylinders. Thanks very much for making these videos.
Thank you for sharing your helpful and informative tips on throwing pottery.
Glad it was helpful!
Please do a video on opening!
Been a while since we've done any tinkering and/or thinking - missing your videos friend!
Yes, of course I'd love to see even more about this, I also have students like this and you're explaining the issues well. Thanks for posting it!
The best video I have watched for the wheel! love your another video of centering, it's been very helpful !!! please teach us more with the opening and maybe wedging
Thank you! Will do
Great videos! Keep'em coming!
You may have made and posted a video already, and I will check, but just in case you haven’t…..yes please to a video on opening tips. I almost always throw my centered clay off center when opening and then rely on the ‘freeze and squeeze’ to try to recenter it. Thanks for your great tips!
This is what I’ve been looking for! Thank you for explaining why I’m making these mistakes
Thank you for this!! This is exactly the kind of throwing advice and troubleshooting I’ve been looking for!!!
Would love to see more vids! Keep up the good work 😊!
Thanks!
great explanations, keep on posting any tips you think are necessary or helpful please as you've helped me so much. thank you!
** "if you are over caffeinated" 😂 brilliant!! I'll be using that one in my classes ;) thank you for your lovely videos, very informative!
Amazing videos, seriously!
Super helpful! Especially the part about inside-outside finger placement. When I started using the wheel, it was never really articulated that I should be trying to push the clay upward. A video about opening would be great.
Yep, would love to see a video about opening
Thank you for sharing your knowledge 🙏
Thank you for this video. I'm now following you. Glad I found you!
Hey there! Just found your channel- your videos make me want to start a “pottery journal” and take notes. I’m so grateful because I am just beginning my journey in the art of ceramics. Thank you for educating me and sharing such wonderful content🫶🏽🌸 Gonna binge on more of your content now haha
Agree regarding note taking!!
Thanks! A pottery journal is an excellent idea--a notebook devoted to what you learn, your experiments and impressions. I love it!
Your tutorials are so so helpful!! Please keep them coming!
so helptful, thank you so much!
The way you've explained these problems is really straightforward and helpful. My current struggle is I'm having a hard time getting symmetry on all sides. For example, if I'm making a bowl, the belly might jut out more in one side than the other. I'd love to see an explanation of how to shape things, particularly rounded things, more uniformly.
That's a good idea! The key thing is to go slow--just like you need to pull the walls up slowly to avoid irregularities, when bellying out you have to stay in one spot long enough for the wheel to spin all the way around, before moving your hand up or down. Also, apply less pressure than you might think--try bellying out a little at a time, and going bottom to top several times, inching up to the final shape. It's easy to press too hard and then subconsciously pull back, resulting in that unevenness.
Thanks!
Thank you!
You just got a new subscriber. I'm also following Andy Ward on RUclips, but he focuses more on hand-building and replicating historical ceramics of the southwest United States. I'm wondering if you currently have the skills and resources to replicate Ancient Greek red figure pottery.
How can you tell if you are moving too slowly? I have uneven walls but think I might be going to slowly, so how do you know what's the right speed of movement in comparison to the speed of the wheel? Would also love these kind of tips on opening and making the bottom!
First, the most important thing is moving up consistently. Fast or slow, if you don't change the speed from bottom to top the walls will be even.
Second, you need to match wheel speed to hand speed. A fast wheel requires faster hands, or else you stay in one place too long and wear the wall thin. A slow wheel requires slow hands. You can mark a spot on the wheel head (with a piece of clay) and make sure that the wheel spins 360 degrees, all the way around, before your hands move up a noticeable amount. If you don't let the clay spin all the way around in your grip, you'll end up leaving some clay behind in various spots. Done intentionally and evenly, this makes a spiral going up. Done accidentally, it's often random and just uneven walls.
@@tinkerandthink thanks for this tip for marking it with a piece of clay! will try it next time!
thank you, robert pattinson
Hah! Haven't gotten that since Twilight was popular