In my experience, little though it may be, it greatly helps to use either a wooden rib or a medium soft plastic rib on the outside while you are stretching the walls into a spherical form. For whatever reason, it keeps the clay more stable, especially if you have the wheel turning a bit slower than what you would for pulling up the walls.
Very lovely. This is a good pot for raku--something with no function--because the raku glaze doesn't bond tightly and flakes off, making it unsafe for food and unable to contain water. Art pottery. I love this kind of stuff, eggs and globes. They just blow me away.
my gosh...I"ve been trying to do this for a long time...I'm impressed...awesome job my friend...I'm definitely trying this one tomorrow at school...lol
How does your clay not just collapse back down whenever you make a pull? Whenever I use that much water, each time I make a pull, the piece doesn’t gain any height because the clay sinks back down under its own weight.
Maybe cut a hole in the front and hang it up somehow for a bird feeder? Or a tea light holder with some nifty cut out shapes, make the bottom detachable! Either way, I liked the video!
Yeah, its tricky getting round shapes like this. Reminds me of a set of pots in Peter Cosantinos' book "Puff Balls". One trick that he used on his pots was, after throwing the round shapes, he would put a paper colar around the top hole, which would allow him to blow into the hole. This would inflate the pot and make for a rounder shape. Luck
I build computer networks for a living but am interested in this as a hobby. As someone starting out new could you tell me a few things such as do you make your own clay? Could someone build they're own kiln for home hobby use? Thanks for the great videos!
That’s gonna be hard on wheel, since the wheel is always spinning. I agree with the other reply poster. Hand build square slabs would be easier to do. Also don’t forget thin coils and slip and score, when attaching the squares to each other
show off ;-)) I just saw this video - you are amazing, and so very glad you are now in the world of "talkies", much appreciated. One question, if this was a totally closed form, would you pierce it somewhere before firing? or else, wouldn't it explode? Thank you for your videos, please please keep them coming
Do you use a special type of tool to cut the lip? It looks like a regular needle tool but the way you remove the strip of clay makes it seem like a special tool.
fat bud vase, massive Christmas ornament, pretty paper weight, or if you could fit a solar light in it, it would make a nice front entrance display piece (until someone trips over it and breaks it...)!
Wish I could see the thickness of the clay at each stage of the pull and shape change. My pots collapsed or wonked during the closing and I''ve never achieved a sphere using Rod's Bod stoneware clay. Any advice anybody?
3:20 - 3:30 I really like that shape as a vase. I have done glass blowing as well (dad is a 12 year pro) and I always seem to like a shape before I finish with it. Is that normal?
can you make a greek type of vase with a Foot: flared out, thin (thinner than the body), long Body: sphere or oval Neck: medium Opening: wider then neck
@tokyorosa =o How would that work out when you threw the ball down?? This is what I imagine would happen... "Hey guys! Check out this new clay bowling ball I bought! This is my first time using it, I'll give it a go right now." -the person throws the ball down the lane- -BOWLING BALL SMASHED ALL OVER THE LANE- ... Hmm....
@FlamingHomelessDude I have tried it is really really hard to even get it as far as he did so unless you can post a video showing you doing it, I wouldn't judge.
I love it. It's my favorite pottery shape. It doesn't have to have a purpose, just being beautiful is enough. Poke some pussy willows through the hole or maybe some forsythia. Wonderful. I made one once, but it was too tall, sort of oblong, and I didn't have the skill to roundify it. So at the equator I pushed out a little ridge from the inside. That brought the height down, which gave it the roundness I was aiming for. It looked like Saturn's ring, and it was the best I ever did.
I'm a potter and I find what he's doing to be very difficult. Good job!!!
Carol Eaton
This is just mesmerizing to watch! Such a beautiful craft, thank you for sharing
In my experience, little though it may be, it greatly helps to use either a wooden rib or a medium soft plastic rib on the outside while you are stretching the walls into a spherical form. For whatever reason, it keeps the clay more stable, especially if you have the wheel turning a bit slower than what you would for pulling up the walls.
Love how you're so good that you can just do this in like ten minutes
Looks brilliant, well done, I know it is difficult, but you make it look easy! I'll have a go next time I get my wheel out!
Very nice!
Those spheres could easily make interesting looking teapots, especially if you manipulated their shape after you first throw the ball.
I'd like to know what kind of clay you use that can tolerate that much water without collapsing. So graceful. You make it look way easier than it is!
Definitely porcelain. I think it might be a mixture of different clay types though because it doesn't look gritty.
* sorry definitely not porcelain
Raspberries Rrandom looks like stoneware to me
If I could just center I would be happy enough
Very lovely. This is a good pot for raku--something with no function--because the raku glaze doesn't bond tightly and flakes off, making it unsafe for food and unable to contain water. Art pottery. I love this kind of stuff, eggs and globes. They just blow me away.
dan, i would really like to see a pot made from your point of view, so maybe a head-cam or something like that would be really helpful. :)
Seriously glued to that. Serious job. I seemed to have been scared or the Potters wheel at ceramics lol.
my gosh...I"ve been trying to do this for a long time...I'm impressed...awesome job my friend...I'm definitely trying this one tomorrow at school...lol
pottery fascinates me.
This was quite helpful. Thank you! You are a master!
How does your clay not just collapse back down whenever you make a pull? Whenever I use that much water, each time I make a pull, the piece doesn’t gain any height because the clay sinks back down under its own weight.
THAT is so cute! I love it!
Man you got skills!!
you make it look so easy
Thy purpose is serves is that you can make luminary out of it that creates beautiful patterns in light on the walls and table.
Nice job man :D
amazing!! very good and very fast..i bet i cant do that anyway but i will try. i have a few ideas of the use if this ;)
Maybe cut a hole in the front and hang it up somehow for a bird feeder?
Or a tea light holder with some nifty cut out shapes, make the bottom detachable!
Either way, I liked the video!
Yeah, its tricky getting round shapes like this. Reminds me of a set of pots in Peter Cosantinos' book "Puff Balls". One trick that he used on his pots was, after throwing the round shapes, he would put a paper colar around the top hole, which would allow him to blow into the hole. This would inflate the pot and make for a rounder shape.
Luck
I'm impressed.
Amazing 😊
Now, you let it get about the leather hard stage and carve a lace-like pattern into it to make a spherical lantern for a candle.
I build computer networks for a living but am interested in this as a hobby. As someone starting out new could you tell me a few things such as do you make your own clay? Could someone build they're own kiln for home hobby use? Thanks for the great videos!
can u make a cube please
+david clay Try using a slab instead and hand build it.
That’s gonna be hard on wheel, since the wheel is always spinning. I agree with the other reply poster. Hand build square slabs would be easier to do. Also don’t forget thin coils and slip and score, when attaching the squares to each other
Lol throw a cube 😂
Awesome!
Two more holes and you could make lightweight pottery bowling balls. Is bowling big in your town? A whole new market could open up...
amazing skill
I wanna try!
I hope I'll be as talanted as you one day :)
sooo impressed
show off ;-)) I just saw this video - you are amazing, and so very glad you are now in the world of "talkies", much appreciated. One question, if this was a totally closed form, would you pierce it somewhere before firing? or else, wouldn't it explode? Thank you for your videos, please please keep them coming
Do you use a special type of tool to cut the lip? It looks like a regular needle tool but the way you remove the strip of clay makes it seem like a special tool.
Nice start to a piggy bank! :)
How are you so good at controlling the clay?
fat bud vase, massive Christmas ornament, pretty paper weight, or if you could fit a solar light in it, it would make a nice front entrance display piece (until someone trips over it and breaks it...)!
i just CAN'T look away! i'm pretty sure it's impossible!
That's looks cool
What kind of clay do you use
You should glaze it like a soccer/football. It's very fun to watch what ever you make your so fluid in your movements.
Final shape might make a nice lamp base.
Good try, good on you
Wish I could see the thickness of the clay at each stage of the pull and shape change. My pots collapsed or wonked during the closing and I''ve never achieved a sphere using Rod's Bod stoneware clay. Any advice anybody?
really great! thanks dorie
3:20 - 3:30 I really like that shape as a vase. I have done glass blowing as well (dad is a 12 year pro) and I always seem to like a shape before I finish with it. Is that normal?
Awesome!
excellent!!!
how do you centre it so easily??? i always have trouble and it takes me like 10 mins just to centre it
bravo!!!
How difficult is it to do that shape?
Make a second one and glaze them blue and you could have a pair of blue balls.
impressive
I want to try that
Make them hollow, pour molten metal into them, and have balls of steel. That sounds much preferable to me than blue balls.
can you make a greek type of vase with a
Foot: flared out, thin (thinner than the body), long
Body: sphere or oval
Neck: medium
Opening: wider then neck
ItsVerosLife You mean one of those wine flasks, called an amphora?
does anyone know a channel that does this with glass blowing?
how much for a wheel like that
BRAVO!!
Were u born in England or in the U.S.A. :-)
terrific thanks
Excelente, gracias
if i try this the clay would just spin and fly to the other side of the room
Maybe it a seed bowl if the hole a bit smaller.
Legend
I wanna smoosh it!!
@tokyorosa =o How would that work out when you threw the ball down?? This is what I imagine would happen... "Hey guys! Check out this new clay bowling ball I bought! This is my first time using it, I'll give it a go right now." -the person throws the ball down the lane- -BOWLING BALL SMASHED ALL OVER THE LANE- ... Hmm....
that would actually make a good cup wit a straw because it would be almost impossible to spill ur juice :D
But impossible to wash
how hard can it be lets give it a goo 😅😅
I like your accent :-) What language do you speak?
Wow!
How many pounds is this?
@setchemati just put some flubber all around it.
@FlamingHomelessDude I have tried it is really really hard to even get it as far as he did so unless you can post a video showing you doing it, I wouldn't judge.
1:15 haha what does it look like!:D i know I'm pervert....
+_momiola_ Plays A cylinder.
3:35 who you flipping off?!
Cross Bolt -COC BASE BUILDS- He fingering
Millie Todd himself?
fill it with fuel, put a handkerchief on the top and light it up!
try to make a bowling pin
It could be a single flower vase.
ollas (irrigation)
@FlamingHomelessDude He said "ball vase"
you never closed it up......
ficou irado
sir sorry sir Ian joing pottery class from tomorrow
Liam Neeson?
So fast on centering and bring it up
@FlamingHomelessDude THERE GO VASE
A ball. :D
@seekatruth polygons are two dimensional ;)
*Blend
I love it. It's my favorite pottery shape. It doesn't have to have a purpose, just being beautiful is enough. Poke some pussy willows through the hole or maybe some forsythia. Wonderful. I made one once, but it was too tall, sort of oblong, and I didn't have the skill to roundify it. So at the equator I pushed out a little ridge from the inside. That brought the height down, which gave it the roundness I was aiming for. It looked like Saturn's ring, and it was the best I ever did.
that was great too bad you cant close it all the way cause of the air bubbles
0:34 Chode.
Brace your elbow to your body. And push with your body not with your hands.
if you seal it up, it'll explode in the kiln. gas expands.
@wolfhound692 HAHA no offense but i really think you should LERN how to spell first ;)