Video : Handmade yunomi and kyusu

[Dresden]

Didn't want to post this in the artisan forum... Just a neat little video I ran across.

I'm no expert, but this guy seems to really know his stuff!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxyZ6qk0w34

[Victoria]

Wow that was pretty cool. Yeah I think it should be under posted teaware.
Maybe Chip will move it for you.

I have never seen items made from the top of a mound like that,
only as a lump directly on the turntable. Very interesting.
I liked a lot of shapes along the way better than the first cup he chose.
I wanted to yell "STOP", LOL.

Amazing how the lid fit and cutting the angle on the spout.

All done in nice clothes too.

[Ebtoulson]

all i can say is wow....now I want to try this

[chamekke]

That was absolutely magical!

[Salsero]

I couldn't believe it when the lid fit right on the pot ... and then the handle and spout! What a craftsman.

[Zion21]

Didn't want to post this in the artisan forum... Just a neat little video I ran across.

I'm no expert, but this guy seems to really know his stuff!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxyZ6qk0w34

Great video, I really enjoyed watching this.

[Moss]

Sort of envious he keeps his clothes so clean...

LMAO. I am covered in clay most of the time.

I go out and my wife stops me and says, "honey, to you that is clay. To everyone else, it's dirt. Go change."

He certainly knows his stuff. Good video.

[Moss]

That is called throwing off the hump. It is a production pottery technique that they don't normally teach to beginners because the bottoms of each piece are not compressed as they would be when you throw on a wheel head or a bat (a removable piece on the wheel head) Thus they are prone to "s" cracks in the bottom where the clay is a different density than the walls.

Depending on the potter, there may be from 10-40% breakage with this technique so the only way it becomes practical is if you throw dozens or hundred's of pieces at a time, which you actually can do because it is so quick.

Makes for frustrated beginners who value each piece too highly. (pottery is all about letting go and moving forward when there is an error.)

I can throw about 25 cups an hour with this technique but I prefer mostly to throw individual lumps because there is less failure and I don't have enough storage for so many at a time and no one buys my work fast enough to do that many.

I know one potter, Bill Vangilder who worked through school by throwing 400 1lb cups on Friday, preparing 400 handles on Saturday, placing them and finishing 400 cups on Sunday then train back to school on Sunday night. At that rate, you can loose a few.

[Victoria]

Thanks for the clarification Moss, interesting.

You could adopt his rubberband technique for keeping your sleves up.