HOW TO ATTACH HANDLES - TIPS and TRICKS
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2019
- This video is all about tips and tricks for making and attaching clay handles to pottery/ceramic mugs.
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Handles that you can hold with your whole hand🤩 So comfortable and affordable to drink easily
This is really helpful, thank you!
Awesome, exactly what I was looking for - thanks Jon, you always get the videos just right 😊
Love the stop motion!
In order that people using my mugs may contemplate the mysteries of the universe while drinking their morning coffee, I make my handles in the shape of a question mark (rolling up a little ball on the bottom end). But seriously, I try to make handles that make sense for a particular mug. Trying to get better at adding decorative elements.
Man I would love to see a pic of your question mark handles!!! Do you have them posted anywhere? Thanks!
Thank you so much !!! I subscribed, and can’t wait to see more! One good tip from this: have the mug and the handle be about the same dryness. :)
In recent years, I started using "Magic Water" for most my joins, including handles. I've been happy with the results, this far.
Love your videos! Learn a lot!
This is the wall I’m hitting right now as a beginner. I get this far in the process and mess it up with the handles 😂
Handle is Half of a Heart 😍
Ok new thrower here. I have learned that I have waited too long to attach handles. About a day you said. Teacher showed how to pull clay. Mine broke after every pull.😢
Nice, thx!
Hey, what glazes did you use on the completed mugs in this video? Any videos coming soon for your newest color combinations?? :)
I always enjoy watching your technique. I prefer the really clean look of your mug handles. Do you ever put thumb rest on the top of the handle? I find that guys seem to like that on a mug. Love the Art Wander Tee. Hope to get up there to partake in the wander.
I definitely have a handle preference and I'm changing how I make mine as well. I have a few reasons for why I like a sturdy, thick 4 finger handle. That mug you showed where you can fit your whole hand in the handle is exactly what I like. I have tiny hands. They are not very strong. They even have early stages of arthritis (and I'm young, only 44). When I can only fit one or two fingers in the handle, my fingers are not strong enough to hold up a full mug of liquid. So the mug droops, my hand is in pain, and I need to get that second hand up to the mug before it falls. I want a meaty handle so I feel like I'm really grasping something. I also often hold my mug just by the side of the mug, sliding my 3 or 4 fingers into the handle for extra support. I can't do this with a 1 or 2 finger handle. I've noticed that potters need to make different handles to offer different options to customers, since people have such strong preferences on the subject. By the way, that was a great wake boarding video today! Awesome perspective, and loved the underwater part at first.
I need a big handle for the same reason - arthritis and neuropathy require a firm grip with 3-4 fingers!
Thanks for the handle tips, really struggled the other day, but I can see where I was making harder on myself! Also, what is the surface of your work table made out of? Thanks!
Love your videos. I look forward to watching each one. What is the name of the trimming tool you use on the bottom of your cups after you throw them? It gives such a nice rounded edge on the bottom.
I like horns on the handle holding the thumb in place
New subscriber here, love your energy amd attitude, your videos are really informative, was wondering if you have thought about doing an underglaze tranfer tutorial? Would love to see one 💕☕
Hey there!
Great ideas...
I just ordered the same extruder because of your review..should be getting it in the next few days...so excited...thanks!!!
Also... I am putting my studio together. I have a 8' metal table (have had it forever in my garage) - what do you recommend the table top should be?
I would so much love for your response....thanks!!!
love your style of making handles, but how do you keep them from cracking? Do you wax, or wrap? i would love to know what you do after they are finished before you fire them. Thanks for your amazing videos, you inspire! ♥
Excellent, thank you! ps, You would be a good snowboarder. You should come out and ski Squaw/Alpine someday
I think Leather hard the term I believe for when you want your piece to be when you attach your handle. At least from what I remember, it has been years since I was working in a pottery studio. I miss it a ton.
Learning to make mugs, so thank you for this video. I'm finding the handles are hard to get right. A side note; Men tend to hold the coffee mug handle with one or two fingers, and women like to hold the coffee mug handle with their whole hand. Watch your customers in your shops. It seems to hold true. 😊
Good information Jon, very helpful, how high do you throw your mugs? I guess a bit over 5ins? Cheers Bob 🇬🇧
Awesome video...thanks! Lots of things I like...or not...about handles, but one that really makes a difference for me is balance/weight. Do I have to work hard to hold this mug, or does the handle make it easy and comfortable?
I like to attach some of the handles from the inside of the top of the mug. Yes. Inside, at the top, coming out of the mug, attach the end of the handle as desired outside/bottom. YEHAW!
I love your videos and would like to suggest that you make mugs with hand warmers. Add the slabs to both sides so you can really get them puppies warm from your hot cocoa or whatever you preferred drink is. Lol hope you enjoy. Love from nc from my daughter and me.
Lorena J Crouse Jon made a couple of videos about hand warming mugs a while ago, you should check them out, very interesting 😊
I like a two finger grip too.
How long did you dry the handles before attaching?
Hi :) Maybe a tutorial for planters too?
Do you ever braid them before putting them on I think that would be neat
Hey John. I really like how you put the Minnesota on your mugs and I live down in Florida so I was gonna try that out. I don’t mean to steal your secrets but I was wondering how you make them. Do you cut them all out individually or do you have like a cookie cutter or a mold?
Hey, quick question! Do you trim your pieces before the handle attachment? I feel like my pieces at the “still a little damp” phase (where I feel like I should attach handles) isn’t dry enough to trim! It seems like trimming would be challenging with a handle on. Thanks!
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Hey where did you get the stamp for the trees on the Minnesota cups
Hey Jon! I just discovered you a couple weeks ago! I am a beginner potter, and just got into a pottery club at a community centre here in Vancouver, Canada. This means I can jump in the studio whenever, which feels so exciting but intimidating because I am SO BAD right now, but I LOVE IT! Really enjoy your energy and fun in your videos. I've been binging them... kinda obsessed! Still just trying to get good at centering and making cylinders. I'm currently working with a reddish clay - Navajo clay - it stains your hands. Any tips on how to get it off your hands easy? I'm also an actor, so need my hands to stay pretty.... PS: I also just started my own TH-cam Channel for other actors, artists & creatives - so have been looking at your vids for TH-cam creator inspiration too. Yesssss you are so awesome!
Also - if you are ever up this way, I have tons of recommendations on where to snowboard - hit me up anytime! And we've got a beautiful surf spot too!
How do you dry them so they don't crack? Also, how long should they be covered to dry before you can leave them in the open air to become bone dry?
Hey Jon, I've got a question that's maybe not really yout hing. But worth a shot! I was wondering how I can put up some ceramic work on a wall (brick in this case). Any experience with that? What are different techniques? How much weight can it hold? Would love a video on that! :)
The handles are perfect. How do you figure out how to get them to the point where they are solid enough to trim the foot but not have the top too dry to add the handle, especially when trying to do a bunch at a time?
I wonder what sells more pulled handles or handles from an extruder?
I like the 2 finger mugs better than the 4 finger mugs. I like a thinner handle verses a wide.
Silly question, how do you prevent that bad swamp smell and black (I'm going to call it mold but I don't know what it is) on the bottom.of your slip bucket. I find if I keep my slip for more then a few days it smells when I open it and the bottom has turned black.
I’m not a potter. Wish I was. But seeing you use slip, I have a question about slip. How do you make it? What makes good skip? Does it dry out? If it does can it be saved?
UniquelyPenny A.K.A Penny Loker Slip is just clay and water. I like to make mine kind of thick and gooey. Just add less water. If slip dries out, just add some water and wait.
Trimmings make great slip because the clay will dry faster in smaller pieces. Crush it up, the powderier the better, and add water!
Your arms must be jacked with throwing pottery cranking the extruder. Lol
If your mugs need trimming, do you trim before or after attaching the handle?
Good question I need to know that too
Hey I know this is two years old, but what do you do with the pieces that blow up in the kiln? Can you crush it up and us it as a type of reinforcement in new pieces? Or……
Where did you get you pug mill?
I like trimming mugs when they are leather hard. I find that my handles are cracking along the attachment points. Any suggestions?
How long do you wait between shaping your handles and attaching them?
Gang gang
Heya Jon! I am a total beginner with pottery, I think you would know how to solve my problem...?
I glazed a figurine, not dipped but "painted on" because I just had a little amount of that glaze. After I took it out of the oven it turned out with some spotting where the clay shows through. It's not bad looking but it bothers me. Could I just put some more glaze on the little spots and bake it again...? Or would that ruin the already baked glaze...? Google seems to give me no answers or I don't know what to look for because I lack the pottery vocabulary haha
Greetings from Germany!
You can glaze over it, but it doesn't always make the spots disappear. But I would just give it a try! Greetings from the Netherlands :-)
@@hetiswiesje Thank you so much! I will certainly try. ❤
I see piles of dry glazes in the background. Do you plan to make a how to mix glaze video? I recently bought 6 colors from mayco but am struggling to get consistent results. The instructions on the bag are very vague on how much water to add.
are they 5 pound bags? 2.5 quarts of water for 5 pounds is usually a great starting point
They have mixing videos on their youtube page, see if they help :) th-cam.com/users/MaycoColors
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@@Jonthepotter we bought 10lbs of each. No issues mixing. I forget how much water but followed what the bags said. Some came out very thick others super thin. Northern woods is basically water where as blue surf was closer to pudding.
What about vinegar for attaching?
I attached my first handle today. It's not the prettiest, but I'm pretty sure it will stay on!
It has stayed on!
Last week, I did my second handle. At that rate, it would take me years to do the mugs in this video! 🤪
How do I make slip
Jon, are you in Agora?
What is your website?
How many pounds of clay do you throw your mugs?
You should win Father of the Year. You would be great teaching kids your craft. Rewarding for you and them!
I like extruded handles but I hate cleaning the extruder afterwards.
I find if I have a table full of handles they dry out way too fast.
Damn I wish my teacher has and extruder that does Handles instead of just coils
Not a criticism, just a question. Why don't you pull your handles?
extruder is the way to go, i do not like to pull handles
Excellent manhandling!🤣
Have you ever used clay you dug up yourself?
I have. I dug a hole in my back yard and kept digging until I got usable clay. It still had a some rocks and sand in it, so I mixed it in water until all the clay was in suspension, let the heavier particles settle out for 30 minutes, then poured off the clay water, let that settle overnight, then carefully siphoned off the excess water. Then I purified it again so even more sand could settle out. It took almost a month to dry to a nice clay texture. Ultimately, it wasn't great clay. It was very coarse and difficult to throw, but I was able to make a few things with it, and it was a great experience. When you fire it, put it on a large plate of known clay in case it melts in the kiln. You will almost certainly get much better clay from your local clay supplier (like Continental Clay!), and if you value your time, commercial clay is cheaper, but if you want to dig your own clay, you absolutely should. No reason not to.
Love the stop motion!
Thanks for the handle tips, really struggled the other day, but I can see where I was making harder on myself! Also, what is the surface of your work table made out of? Thanks!
Love the stop motion!
Thanks for the handle tips, really struggled the other day, but I can see where I was making harder on myself! Also, what is the surface of your work table made out of? Thanks!