Building an Asian Pottery Kick Wheel (kerokuro or karatsu wheel) Part 2/2: The Rest of It 

Next up: "adding a motor because it turns out moving it with your feet is a lot of work". :D

That first try sure looked like a win to me. Thanks for posting this.

Your casual incompetence is endearing.

Maybe you could put grip tape for a skateboard on the kick wheel

You'll tear the sides of your shoes to pieces if you do this, but if you want extra grip, just cover the sides of the bottom wheel with skateboard grip tape. Putting your bearings on out of square might be the cause of the wobble. Consider forming a shim to correct the squareness of the bearing. As for the ends of the legs, you could take a 3 inch long piece of 1 inch by 1/8 inch flat stock and put a bend in it to cover the end of the tube and provide a foot for the leg from the same piece.

Very cool idea! My wife and I have been wanting to try this. Thank you for this video, Paul! We have gotten a lot of ideas from your channel and we love it. Keep up the good work!

Good I like it ❤️

My Pillow bearings should be here today. Daughter is bringing home more glue. I'm going to fill the inside cavity of the bottom with sand to add mass. I am stoked...

Hey Paul, just want to say thanks for making videos and entertaining us. I love that you're honest about the jerry rigging you do, because us regular guys all do it! Good enough is exactly that.!

You are hilarious dude! Had me cracking up. 1st video i've seen of yours :)

That wheel really works, much better than you’d think. Obviously someone knew that already as I am guessing there have been millions made. I’d be trying to ad something to power it for a steady speed. Not that that is a simple thing to do either. Good job on all that work!

Nice job bud. Sometihng wildly soothing about watching clay spin and take shape.

Use skateboard tape where your feet go fur better traction

Looks fantastic. Great work, both with the wood and with the clay! I teach pottery classes (and make pottery) for a living and most pottery people don't even try to make their own wheels, so that's commendable all on its own. Sure there's a bit of a wobble, but the wheel head technically doesn't need to be perfectly level or wobble-free to make a perfectly centered pot, especially if you're throwing "off the hump." From my understanding, the majority of pottery traditionally made on a karatsu is thrown off the hump anyways. I'm impressed!

You’re so funny and entertaining to watch 😂

You sure keep busy doing really fun stuff.

I love it when grinders earn their keep

"music left in for your enjoyment" - have crueller words ever been spoken? Nice video though!

your my kind of engineer ,more LOL's ..Great video !

I should try making one with my cnc machine. Lol.

Grinder and paint make me the welder I ain't!

You could probably 3D model little stoppers for the metal tubing... kind of like the things they have on Gym equipment... a part that slots into the tube and an outer part to hopefully stop the injury stuff.

Paul, I suggest Rubber. Get some decently thick rubber to staple onto the bottom of the wheel. It will give your shoes grip and a little extra water protection... And if the leg workout doesn't work out, you can always try adding a motorized belt to it.

This video did the trick. Better just buy a motored one.

Returns on tv so I'm here ,

Great idea and build Paul...but go ahead and add the motor now before you damage a leg or two. LOL!

I think you did pretty good bro

Nice rig dude. I was really missing the music from Ghost though... 👍👍

"Need a bigger hammer" grabs giant log.....i lost it. 😅😅😅

Try friction tape on the base. You can also try adding a rim around the top to catch the water that's flying off. For the sponge - use enough water so that your hands easily glide over the clay, but not so much that you have a pool at the bottom of your pot

Hey idk if you check this but you should try to make a knife out of mercury with liquid nitrogen or something else it would be really cool and would blow up

You should finish the Gingery lathe so you can chuck the pottery heel to tru it.

In case you were in desperate need of some hindsight delivered from my couch; I kinda did see that non-level wobble surface coming in part 1. Would have been better to widen out those holes and get the dowels in to a defined length; and grinding it down to a level surface sounds like a lot of work. To try and bring that back to a constructive suggestion; how about giving it a little rim with some wide tape sticking out, and then mixing up some plaster and wood glue. Makes for a nice and cheap but sufficiently durable pourable resin (plaster alone might do even unless you want to do more of these christnings) so you can let gravity do the rest of the levelling. This only gets rid of the wobble insofar gravity aligns with the axis of rotation though, mind.

Maybe you could take out some of the wobble by torquing the dowels, which as i recall have not been glued into place. It looked like they weren't quite parallel. On the ends of the feet you could drill a hole, run a bolt through and have adjustable feet to level it. I might try to make one myself, thanks.

Hello, Does each stack of plywood weigh around 2.20 lbs ? Could they be replaced by boat wheels ?

Need a much bigger flywheel on that thing. The potter I've spoken to at the fair said the flywheel on his was overr 100 pounds and probably 3 feet in diameter for a lot more inertia.

You need bats and lockting pins. Those bearings have quoted radial load not axial. You could replace the bottom bearing with a thrust type. If you throw your pot on a batt you can lift it off to cure and make another on top of another batt. Good luck

Rock On Dude! The first thing you make is an ashtray LOL

Hi Paul . I've just recently found your site & for the past couple days I've been skipping around a bit but enjoying all of your stuff. Your personality & intelligence makes the chatter very enjoyable . But this wasn't intended to be a 'fan letter' ... (* shhhh *I'm a fan. ) I'm just an opinionated old (72) guy & I wanted to give my opinion on a couple things. - - Not intended to embarrass . A couple places where you are discussing stresses , you misused the term tension, most notably when you were testing the Iron ingot by bashing it in the vise . Its more easy to visualize tension if you just imagine tension as the opposite of compression. ... compression = squeezing , tension = stretching. The term for the stress you were discussing (like I said , in a couple videos) is shear . Especially in the lateral bashing at the vise - - Shear would have been the proper term. Enough on that minor slip. 2 ) I forget the correct terms you gave for the two part box you use for your sand molds , but I believe the single wedge on the top box is not supposed to be ATTACHED to the box. I noticed you used a screw. I believe that wedge is a separate piece that should be driven in & held entirely by friction.. Enjoying everything & I think The first project I will steal from you is the kick wheel pottery gizmo . Sneaky in that I believe if I can involve the wife - I will get more garage time for myself ! < insert evil laugh here. - - schistdigger@aol.com - - (Mike) OH ! Hey ! it seems that at some point in your past YOU were a schistdigger ! LOL

Scratch board under pot so you can move it while wet and a rubber cane foot on metal legs safer and slip resistant

Have you put any thought into lost wax/pla casting now that you have kilns to burn out the material? You've come a long way in regards to resources and tools since your last shot at it.

Now add a small motor and foot pedal and you dont have to kick it.

Why not use slices of the huge log you have instead of plywood disks glued together?

I gather that using the sponge results in the pot being slippery

Make a smaller chair try to keep your waist lined with the top of your wheel

You need tablets that sit on pins to turn you pottery on then you use the wire and leave the pot on the plate and remove it and and a new one for next pot

Put marine grease on the end of the shaft

How much did this cost?

That looks quite good! When's Paul-ttery shop opening?

There are some "Spin Mops" that have a Bucket with a pedal. When you push the pedal it rotates a gear connected to a bigger gear (watch sec 38 here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PvhXy9cRIZg.html), and the momentum generated dries your mop. Maybe you could try adding a big "toothed" wood gear at the bottom and make it spin with a pedal (like the one of the spin mop buckets, or bycicle pedal) if you want to keep it manual, or connect a windshield wiper motor for easyness.

Next time use a level and a back brace ! Lol

Anyone know the tools for welding he used ? I have 0 welding experience but want this build very much. Wish me luck einieweinie !

You probably could make it right. You understand materials and possess skills but it's half-arsed.

Im guessing you found this build from the argentinian guy, correct me if wrong, I built one of these myself but same as yours it loses the momentum too easily any ideas to fix that? maybe its too heavy? Also you're funny

The ball on the top acts like a "BALL BEARING" reducing friction, but your method will have much more friction, so there! You should have used an old treadmill motor and controller! Variable speed and decent power.

You should level it out more with some more angle grinding.

Duck tape covers for the leg ends might work temporarily. Plasti-dip for tool handles could do the job as well. Adjustible feet at the ends of the legs could allow you to make the axle perfectly vertical, but as you like good enough, why bother? Put your sander on a stand over the top disk and lower it slowly to make the top perpendicular to the vector of the axle. Ugh, maybe it's too much bother. Too bad you don't have a wood lathe to do that on.

3D print plugs for the legs

Paul, that is the wrong kind of pot!

Hi Paul, what do you use as your kiln? do you use your foundry?

We could be friends lol

Great job! And a nice pot 😁 maybe it is an idea to attach a small motor to it to spin it?

So hey paul how about making a 3d pantodremel or 3d copier? Boy that would be handy to have wouldn't it? There's no good videos on you tube! All your friends are doing it and you wanna be cool don't you?

LOL!

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Three legged stools need better music to rock.

Chop them off getting out of the wheel they will not come on way

3d print caps

i didnt like it. because it doesnt have a basket.

How much did this cost?