Preventing Cracks in Pottery: Wheel Throwing Techniques

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Part of the video series: Making Pottery Mugs on the Pottery Wheel

Summary: Even while potter's are throwing a pot the pot can crack on the pottery wheel. Learn how to prevent the clay from cracking while throwing on the pottery wheel in this free ceramics video.

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By Chris Cook
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Chris Cook received a BFA in ceramics and sculpture from Southern Oregon University where he studied raku, studio ceramics, stoneware, and various firing techniques under Jim Romberg....read more

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"Okay, now that we got down there you want to start winding it out. Like what I like to do is take my finger like this and press the bottom once again so we don't get those S cracks, pull it up, but all the while I'm taking my hand and I'm squeezing the piece in. Because like I said it's going to want to go like this all the time just because of the way the wheel is spinning. So you want to compress the bottom and hold the piece and just don't let it get out of control. And you want to go back, grab your needle tool, and just give it that check. Perfect, just like the last one. So now that we're down there, we got the bottom you want to put that true Demotte in there. There it is. People love that thing, the glaze breaks really well on it and it just lets people know you were there, because it is beautiful."