Help! Now it's Stuck Pottery Wheel Throwing Demonstion

hi YouTube um got a few different things to talk about in terms of lifting pots off the wheel um I'm going to go over the two ways that I do it most often and then we'll talk about some other ways that I don't think are as successful I love trying to give reasons why now if it's the only way you've done it then you're probably really good at doing it that way you know pitfalls and everything but this is for beginners and you know just try to explain the why why not in the why to do something um again if this is the way you've been doing it for thirty years I'm not trying to try to make you feel bad this is just so beginners don't don't have issues in the beginning and they get to take their pots off the wheel so first one I'll do it's just a little base and I'm doing them little because I like kind of running out of clay for demo stuff so we got a look we got our little our first little bass that we've ever made and now we need to pick it up so first thing let's just cut the skirt off this would give you an area underneath here we're actually able to get your fingers if it was say a bowl and if not able a cylindrical object would give you a place to kind of squeeze with your pinkies and that will help keep your piece around next thing is to scrape all the slip off the outside of your pieces and your flexible metal rivet death if there's any slip on the outside of your piece it will make it very difficult to lift up then I want a slide and when it slides in your hands you'll react by squeezing harder when you squeeze it harder you'll change the shape your piece and when you change the shape of your piece you make it a lot more difficult to trim later on so get the water out of the bottom and then we'll scrape the hands off so scooch over to mr. bucket here I have a bucket with a sharp edge and I put the palm of my hand through and I run down you can see how it scraped my hand completely clean that with my other one I'll do my thumbs I never really used by thumbs I just have it now and then back to the pot I'm going to just two different ways one way would be to get from underneath the second way would be to use your hands will do go from underneath first well for that you're going to cut it off so I'm pressing down against the wheel head I don't do it while spinning because I don't want it to slide off if you're using a wiggle wire or something like that something completely different just is just beginner stuff pressing down I just feel like I'm going to pull towards me oh no just get my hands everything good again but a heads with OCD I guess I'm going to go around the bottom I'm going to wrap my pinkies around you can see my pinkies kind of getting around there let the rest one hand touch it and lift up now this you know because it's so small it'll lift up pretty cleanly now the other way as if you had a bowl shape will be take four fingers and imagine them around the piece like a square and then as I move them in I close them too so that that square shrinks together like a Chuck on a drill so I'm going to go around and to touch it I'm going to squeeze it I'm going to give it a little twist and lift up and then put that down all right so go in four fingers twist lift up now other ways people people remove pots from the wheel um one when I would you know was was beginning throwing was too wet the front of the wheel here get a lot of water run the wire tool under a few times until it made it slippery underneath and then you remove your splash pan you get a board and hopefully the board was the same height as your back put a little water on your back and you would slide it on to the new board well the problem I found with this is that you get a lot of extra water underneath your piece and that water can cause cracking also when you slide if it sticks a little bit or becomes um caught somewhere you're going to turn the bottom into an oval a lot a lot more than I have when I pick them up in other ways um it's just it's a it's a lot more work than just picking it up because now I got to put my wheel all back together that's a huge deal but you know it's other stuff if you're you know trying to make a lot of stuff in practice the other way is if you have your own bats and and everything and you made a piece that's too big to lift up just take the bat off you don't want to keep it on the bat for you know weeks at a time but you can stay on for a day or 12 hours until it stiffens up and off that you're able to lift it up the the last way that I see people on kind of I wanna say they don't pick it up this way but it's one of the things they do to help them pick it up is put a piece of paper on the top I think when you put a piece of paper on top it they say they do it so that when you lift it up it doesn't change the shape of the top that it stays round but for me I think I would mess it up just as much by putting a piece of paper on the top before I lift it up so I guess I'm just you know just like I say you know everybody that's been doing it for 10 years in one way have you know probably learned how to do it very well but for a beginner from you know for my beginners it's easiest to do it with the least amount of fuss as possible either picking it up at the bottom with your hands or four fingers um that's why I show it now if you find that you're getting getting issues like it becoming a taco when you put it down don't go right away and fix it it's really soft and the more you manipulate it now the worse that's going to get but if it is a taco the best thing to do is apply pressure in the opposite position that you were don't try to fix the top try to fix what's causing the top to go oval and kind of push back at the bottom and bring it back into a circle those are those are some removal some of the pitfalls with the removal and on oh we didn't talk about pot lifters okay so we'll talk about that after jewel cake pot lifters are these metal metal apparatus that you cut the piece and then you take this metal sheet like 2p sheetmetal and you go underneath and they don't go all the way through they go like just around the middle you squeeze them together and then they lift up from the bottom and I think it it cuts up the whole bottom it makes a big mess underneath least I found it makes a big mess underneath which would then make it harder to trim so I do things to make it as easy as possible for somebody that's learning how to throw to do it successfully and I try to remove any steps or any products or any you know techniques that are going to make it harder so those that's my two cents um what's Oh next next video will be on throwing practice so things one of the things you can do to practice throwing so that you can get better as an exercise so you're not trying to keep pieces you're just trying to practice your technique like again we're trying to test the links here so the link at the top there is the first day of class and then I'm going to make a series of the help videos put together and then we see if we can get a website link

Channel: Timsee clay

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Length: 8min 24sec (504 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 04 2011