Thank you! This is an excellent video and I'm going to use the ideas of taking apart a cup (especially if it's the right size) to see what the template really looks like. Getting a tapered cup is sometimes challenging for young students to see as a part of a circle. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the tutorial. Made one and it turned out well. I aded lace imprint on the outside. BTW in order to help keep it round, I lightly pressed a styrofoam ball around to top. Works well.
Anne Sales glad you got to make one. Good idea using the lace. And thanks for the suggestion of a Styrofoam ball. I have also heard that some people use a paper cup to keep it round. Some good things to try! ☺
My niece wanted so badly to make a mug but I'm a thrower. Thanks so much for the details on the hand building, and especially for were to find a templet.
Claudia Schattman I do. I either use a stiff paint brush or a rubber tipped tool and just go around the inside where the wall meets the floor. And thank you! Glad you like the video
Great tutorial - thank you! I wondered if you could tell me the name of the angle cutter tool that you used please, as I cannot seem to find anything similar in the UK? Thanks again, just starting out in pottery and so learning so much from tutorials like this.
Glad you find the video helpful! The tool is a bevel tool. I believe the one I have is from Xiem. Here is it on amazon: www.amazon.com/Xiem-Tools-X-Bevel-Pottery-Ceramics/dp/B06XPDLBY9
I am very very new to pottery, and I would like to know the correct technique for drying my slab pieces before firing to bisque. There doesn't seem to be anything on RUclips covering this. Eagerly awaiting your reply. Thank you
Are you having cracking problems? If so you might be drying too fast. Try covering with plastic. Without knowing what issues you have run in to it is hard to say. My studio is in a damp garage so drying for me may be different then drying for you.
I just found you on RUclips, and I love your tutorials! I have a question. What (material) are you laying your slab onto while you are working with it? It is a covered board? I like the way you can pick up the board and move it. Thanks so much for taking the time to share your knowledge with us newbies!
Thank you! So glad you find them useful. :-) The board is sheet rock (drywall) that I got at Home Depot. Comes in large pieces. You cut it up (or even better which I have not done - ask them to do it at Home Depot) in to smaller boards of whatever size you want. Then tape the edges because they are plaster and plaster doesn't mix well with clay. The boards are great because they absorb liquid and have a smooth surface. But the paper covering eventually wears away and you have to stop using the board when you get to the plaster. One large board is inexpensive and will give you a lot of smaller boards. If it's too much - share the board with a friend. :-)
Nice! I like the beveled lap joint
Thanks! 🙂
Thank you. It is so interesting to watch the build. I would have liked to have seen the final cup shot a little longer but really enjoyed the process.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Maybe pause the video to see the cups longer?
I did that after I sent my message because I wanted to see how you used your colors and was definitely surprised. Do you have a video on glazing?
@@lori3978 I have a few videos on different glazing techniques. Mishima on the tester cups and another on using underglaze like watercolor.
Thank you! This is an excellent video and I'm going to use the ideas of taking apart a cup (especially if it's the right size) to see what the template really looks like. Getting a tapered cup is sometimes challenging for young students to see as a part of a circle. Thanks for sharing!
You are welcome! It really helped me the first time I took a cup apart. Made so much more sense to me. 🙂
Best idea for a template i've seen yet , Thank you !
🙂
Thanks for the tutorial. Made one and it turned out well. I aded lace imprint on the outside. BTW in order to help keep it round, I lightly pressed a styrofoam ball around to top. Works well.
Anne Sales glad you got to make one. Good idea using the lace. And thanks for the suggestion of a Styrofoam ball. I have also heard that some people use a paper cup to keep it round. Some good things to try! ☺
I cut the spout off a dollar store funnel and use it to round cups.
My niece wanted so badly to make a mug but I'm a thrower. Thanks so much for the details on the hand building, and especially for were to find a templet.
You are very welcome! I hope your niece enjoys making her mug!
Beautiful Work!
Thank you!
Gostei muito, sou aprendiz!.
thank you!
Beautiful
Thanks for sharing ✨
vibha budhraja glad you enjoyed the video!
Andrea Akerib Pottery 🙂
Do you smooth the inside where the bottom meets the base of the cup? wonderfully, clear instruction. Thank you!!
Claudia Schattman I do. I either use a stiff paint brush or a rubber tipped tool and just go around the inside where the wall meets the floor. And thank you! Glad you like the video
Brilliant, thank you
Yasmin Mariess you are welcome!
Great tutorial - thank you! I wondered if you could tell me the name of the angle cutter tool that you used please, as I cannot seem to find anything similar in the UK? Thanks again, just starting out in pottery and so learning so much from tutorials like this.
Glad you find the video helpful! The tool is a bevel tool. I believe the one I have is from Xiem. Here is it on amazon: www.amazon.com/Xiem-Tools-X-Bevel-Pottery-Ceramics/dp/B06XPDLBY9
If you can't find the bevel tool, you a small knife and cut at an angle - that is was I used to do before having this tool.
I am very very new to pottery, and I would like to know the correct technique for drying my slab pieces before firing to bisque. There doesn't seem to be anything on RUclips covering this. Eagerly awaiting your reply. Thank you
Are you having cracking problems? If so you might be drying too fast. Try covering with plastic. Without knowing what issues you have run in to it is hard to say. My studio is in a damp garage so drying for me may be different then drying for you.
Thank you...
This is genius ! Never thought to use a Starbucks cup. Thank you!
I wish I could take credit for the idea... but I heard about it from a friend. :-)
Where did you purchase your signature stamp? Nice video!
Donna Volkmann thank you! claystamps.com really nice quality!
I just found you on RUclips, and I love your tutorials! I have a question. What (material) are you laying your slab onto while you are working with it? It is a covered board? I like the way you can pick up the board and move it. Thanks so much for taking the time to share your knowledge with us newbies!
Thank you! So glad you find them useful. :-) The board is sheet rock (drywall) that I got at Home Depot. Comes in large pieces. You cut it up (or even better which I have not done - ask them to do it at Home Depot) in to smaller boards of whatever size you want. Then tape the edges because they are plaster and plaster doesn't mix well with clay. The boards are great because they absorb liquid and have a smooth surface. But the paper covering eventually wears away and you have to stop using the board when you get to the plaster. One large board is inexpensive and will give you a lot of smaller boards. If it's too much - share the board with a friend. :-)
Michael Brian Eppes
another thing you can do is take your star buck cup and set it in you clay cup it will keep your clay cup nice and round.
I wasn't at the time but I now use yogurt cups to keep them around