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How to Center Clay and Throw Pots on the Pottery Wheel

By Florian Gadsby

Type
Video
Level
Beginner
Length
25 min
Price
Free
Published
2021
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About this lesson

Florian Gadsby's wheel-throwing basics: wedging, centering, coning, opening, pulling walls, using a sponge and removing the pot neatly.

Chapters

  1. 0:00Introduction
  2. 0:41Importance of wedging clay and a recommended weight to begin throwing with
  3. 1:20How to centre the clay
  4. 4:20How to cone the clay up and down
  5. 6:45Removing the gritty surface
  6. 7:34Opening up the lump of clay
  7. 10:34Pulling up the walls of the pot
  8. 15:22Using a sponge to throw
  9. 16:25Cleaning up the pot to be lifted away
  10. 18:38Discussing the rim of a pot
  11. 20:02Cutting off an uneven rim
  12. 21:15How to remove the pot from the wheel