Bowls & vases

The next thing that we need to talk about are tools, and your local pottery supply store sells little packets of everything you need to get going. But some of the things I have right here, like a wire...

Now we're going to do a covered sugar bowl. This is a really nice item to have in your kitchen. It's got a cut out for the spoon. And then you hold your sugar in there. You can keep it...

Alright I forgot to mention before I put this on, what you want to do when you have your piece, you want to examine it, you want to see how much clay you have to work with. You can hear it on the...

Alright now that we have got our hump and it's still centered I am just going to keep on throwing. So now we are going to move on to the classic Japanese rice bowl and this is where throwing...

So now I'm going to show you how you can make a vase where only the lip has that torqued, decorative element in it. So first you're going to center the clay. Same process as before,...

Hi everyone, Markerbuoy with you again in the workshop out in the woods, off grid. Time once again, for a little bit more fun wood turning. And what I'd like to show you today is how one can...

So now we have wedged our lump of clay that we are going to use for our bottleneck vase and I would like to just quickly review some of the tools you are going to need for this. These are ribs and I...

Place your trimming tool in your hand like this. Your thumb and your third finger is the driver of the tool, as you can move your tool like this. Whereas your index finger is the one that would be...

Okay what I have done with the ring foot is I have actually kind of just eyed it and I cut I make a little mark for this section and then I just drew a line for where I want to cut away. I measured a...

As you make a vase some problems that might occur that you might forget about later on is taking that water out before you make a narrow neck. So make sure the wheel is spinning when you go to put...