Summary: Establishing the neck on a large clay pot using the pottery wheel and a kidney pottery tool. Establish a basic large vessel on the pottery wheel using techniques in this free ceramics video.
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
"Let us go, put a little more shoulder on there. Like I said I want to keep this on a thicker side because I am going to man handle this thing so bad, it is going to wish it never found my wheel. But it is going to look cool, I hope. It is really dry inside, the pot here, I am just slowly running my fingers next to the rib and coming up to the neck. Now I am going to push in to establish just a real subtle neck. Alright, now we got a got rubber kidney. See how nice that thing works for this job and every job. Alright, now we have our basic pot, alright now we want to start altering it."