Wheel Wedging & Centering Clay on the Pottery Wheel

Video Transcript

"O.k., so you notice I don't have ten million tools here cluttering my, my work space. You don't need all those tools. We're going to keep it simple. So, let's get that attached to the wheel head, alright, I'm going to start centering this. Alright now, it's not that important to get this whole mass completely centered but, it'll work to your benefit if it is somewhat centered because you'll just feel it a lot better. So, I'm wheel wedging right now, taking clay from the bottom with the sides of my hands, pushing it in with my palms, then coming down on top of it like that, and it's pushing it altogether, all the while my arm is locked into my leg, which is my leg is helping center this, my leg and the force of my body so it's not all going from my wrists and my arms, you want to work your whole body into this thing. There we go, centered, ready to start throwing from the hump."