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How to Center Clay and Throw Pots on the Pottery Wheel
- Type
- Video
- Level
- Beginner
- Length
- 25 min
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2021
About this lesson
Florian Gadsby's wheel-throwing basics: wedging, centering, coning, opening, pulling walls, using a sponge and removing the pot neatly.
Chapters
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:41Importance of wedging clay and a recommended weight to begin throwing with
- 1:20How to centre the clay
- 4:20How to cone the clay up and down
- 6:45Removing the gritty surface
- 7:34Opening up the lump of clay
- 10:34Pulling up the walls of the pot
- 15:22Using a sponge to throw
- 16:25Cleaning up the pot to be lifted away
- 18:38Discussing the rim of a pot
- 20:02Cutting off an uneven rim
- 21:15How to remove the pot from the wheel
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