Building an Asian Pottery Kick Wheel (kerokuro or karatsu wheel) Part 1/2: the wooden spinny bit 

Your sense of humor is so great. I've really been down the past few days of the passing of my cat. Thank you for sharing this video with such lightness it was needed.

I love the fact that you make your mistakes and don't try to hide them its called normality

Thank you Paul for posting this. A pottery wheel has been in my 'to do' list for a long time. Your example here really fired (late pottery reference :-) my imagination. It's warming up here so I should be able to get back in the shop before too long.

Fun video bud. I like the idea of a foot-powered wheel. That should have enough mass to keep the spinning smooth. Good looking pots BTW!

If Paul was honest with us, he would have admitted that the graph paper was left over from his glory days of Dungeons and Dragons! Perhaps all that’s left after his wife forbade his truly nerdy friends from coming over, ever... Love your projects, by the way!

I used to know an old "hippie" potter who used one like this, his flywheel was an old car wheel filled with concrete. He based his on the Roman version which used a cart wheel.

Nice router on a board. A very Norm-ite tool. You should amazon affiliate link your "Resp-O-Rator Dust Respirator Model JR-7" in your description; bearded folks will thank you. You need to use more pecking with those Forstner bits, you need to let the chips escape, and it's easier to lift the bit then to let the chips escape as smoke.

I almost had a panic attack when you smeared the concrete-ripping glue all over the plywood with your fingers

Just a thought for later, you can insert the pole into the bottom one and slide all the others on over it ... and when additional holes open up, you can do the same with them. Just a little trick that helps keep everything aligned. Then of course anything you don't want the glue to set on must be pulled out before it dries. Or alternatively, you can glue everything up first and use an auger bit to drill the whole hole all at once.

"The noises scare me" .... subscribed Cool project, too

Let's crowdfund some clamps for the man before he hurts himself. 😁

I'm a 9.75 fingered uncle due to a router mishap. I was that kid in high school that cut off his finger in woodshop.

I can’t wait to see it finished!👍🏼

Great video. belly laughed through a lot of it . Love it , thanks !

You know I would love to see you make a pant o dremel or a 3d copier for a dremel. Purely for selfish reasons, but I can't seem to find any videos or anything to make one myself. I've been watching you since that first king of random coal bucket mess. I'm from North Dakota and it's been a terrible winter here so I really need this. You know how this winter has been... but it's way worse here!

Great video as always! Can’t wait to see it done and working. Those pots looked amazing! Really, I am impressed. Seems like the first ones should be all wonky and crooked and collapsed.

The reason they probably didn’t line up your templet might be a bit off. Basically think about the wholes as being north east south and west. Whatever hole you decide to be north always needs to be north on every disc.

Nice pottery!

your lighting has gotten a LOT better! looks great!!!

That intro got me hahaha

those pots look pretty nice actually , you done a pretty good job on them wat you can do is make the first circle as straight and perfect as you can the way you made the one you done now , including the center hole(s) for the center axle and the other four around it and screw / gleu that circle ontoo the next uncut panel , once thats dried use a router bit with a ball bearing on the tip of it and use the first made circle as the guide for the ballbearing to make the next , glue another panel and router gleu next panel and router etc , at a certan point you need to stop routing out the center hole for the top but the rest you can make exactly like the original doing it this way makes sure the pieces dont shift when mounting them together and you dont have to take the settingtime for the gleu in account (as you fit the panel to the one you glued it too later using the router all it needs to do is stick out enough around the circumference of the pattern disk) wonder how youre going to make the hole for the center axle with the top and bottom pieces sitting so far apart , i do think i found a mounting plate with bearing that should work well on this setup www.producon.com/sm7ovk/rhp_top.JPG to get them set on the axle so the thing kindah floats use axle collars i.ebayimg.com/images/g/~sMAAOSwqVBZZO9y/s-l300.jpg might be a good idea to set the whole thing on a podium with a stool made from a couple more layers of ply to make sure you heven enough dept for the hole so the center axle stays upright even when you kick the wheel (or weld axle on a steel plate to spread the force ) the english longbow where made from a single piece of yew (yew trees are actually toxic for humans containing taxine alkaloids) ) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxus_baccata

You have the same luck with Menards that I have with Home Depot lol. When I was building my wall mounted roll-up green screen I needed a specific diameter PVC pipe. Went to Home Depot, got the measurement I needed as per their labels, got home, cut the pipe and alas, the end cap clamps that go into the pipe wouldn't fit. The PVC was definitely not the diameter they said it was 🤦‍♂️

Drill the center hole first, then bolt them all together then drill the outer holes!

fantastic! thanks for sharing!

0:00 I can just feel you brimming with excitement........p.s. you should add a steel plate to the bottom for weight.

It's not so much the building of it.. the entertainment was brilliant thanks.

and then he glued his fingers together...

Are you going to post a video of you and the wife doing the scene from "Ghost"? lol

so, I'm wondering can you make one of these out of an old riding lawnmower axil? Just wondering as I Have an old one just rusting away...

Is this the American skalligram?

Paul, do you suggest to make the bottom wheel larger, for bigger inertia and easyness of kicking? Or you do think that all the thing Will be unbalanced? Thank you for sharing

Great video. Fantastic project. Would a cement kick wheel not have been easier? Keep up the good work.

Running out of drawing fridge room... Need new door?

My god did you need so many plywood discs 2 would hv been sufficient, 3 stronger rest over kill I used 1-3/4” marine plywood w/1/2 “ scrap plywood glued together, go a 3/4” galvanized pipe and a 4” galvanized screw in flange screwed 4 screws thru flange into plywood top, bottom same thickness screwed bottom to it, welded a 7/16” metal rod to a plate for floor stand slid a open bearing(only half the bearing cover) over rod bearings facing up slid the part that will spin over rod greased earring real good had to put a 12” diameter sheetmetal on bottom so it would spin smoothly wouldn’t spin good bearings to wood, hooking up a sprocket off by bicycle abd small electric motor on switch don’t like kicking this thing

Try a treadmill motor and controller. Try craigs list for free treadmills.

It’s the same respirator that michaelcthulhu uses.

you know it's heavy with the grunts

huh, the first I saw was made out of wheel and half an axle

Did he say drawing fridge?

Umm, Paul you know im your number one fan but a snorkel? A bit too OSHA minded buddy but still yes safety first all well and good though then there comes practicality. Its a possible hazard to have extra bullshit fast spinning machinery can grab on to and shake hands with kinda damage blood gore splish splash carnage thingie k cool great talk

*LIFT WITH YOUR LEGS,* I cringed at the huddled over 50 pound lift. That's why you need a chiropractor

love all the menards jokes. b/c i have experienced them...

Too much spurious chit-chat in your video. Which is a shame as I really wanted to see how you made an Asian kick wheel.

Roman thing

Stop it with the beard already, I don't want to have to move to the US.

কাজের চেয়ে এতো বেশি কথা কও কেন্ ? লবা 😠

I almost had a panic attack when you smeared the concrete-ripping glue all over the plywood with your fingers