Discussing Rims and Bottoms 

Title got me leather-hard

That is… an unfortunate title

This is an entrance ticket to the world of flipping pots to judge others' bottoms

Florian, I want to convey my deep gratitude for guiding me in learning essential pottery skills. As a novice potter who began classes last fall, your tutorial videos have been invaluable in my understanding. I appreciate the dedication evident in your efforts. Many thanks !

A perfect title and the content is just holistic…

Very informative and I really appreciate the effort (and pot sacrifice) you put into demonstrating your points.

As a beginner in pottery, your videos have been a godsend and ive been binging all of them since yesterday. thank you for being such a great educator 💜

I suspect there may be some surprised new viewers to Florian's channel this week. Also, doggy on the wheel! 🤩🤩🤩

The inwards sloping rims might also help keep liquids inside the cup, useful in shaky situations.

It may be short in time, but it is jam-packed with fantastic insights and reflection points! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge in such a high-quality way. I really appreciate it!

I've seen that title. You know what you did and I'm telling.

This is a wonderful video, as not only you provide your thoughts behind why you chose the certain features for your pots, but it shows us viewers your thought process and philosophy behind making ceramics design decisions. Truly skills that I will take with me to the studio 🙇

Thanks for the video!

Your study of pottery is impressive. So many details refined. Thank you for sharing your expertise

Thanks for sharing your skill set, sir Florian.❤

This was an excellent demo. Especially for the rims. I've always got a nice lifting shadow at the base but I'm always concerned of getting my rims to thin if I bevel them too much but I see what a difference it makes in this demo and I'm sold!

This was such a good video- thank you so much!! And, what a cute little doggy 🥰

I enjoy this so much! Amazing content, best wishes to you and your future projects! 🌻

Thanks, you would think rims could be so interesting and varied

Rims and Bottoms aye

I LOVE BOTTOMS!!!

Thank you Florian. This was so very helpful!

Thank you for sharing ❤

Very helpful. Thank you.

This is very useful, thank you!

Fascinating!

okay, this is the first video of yours i've seen in a long, long time. so, good job, the title worked 😂 great content, as usual!! (i initially wrote a longer comment but i'm out here overthinking every word i'm typing. usually, i hide behind the "not my native language" shield or simply don't care but you're so formal and british that i feel like i'll be disrespecting you if i use wrong grammar )😂

I love your tutorial videos, they have helped me immensely. Do you have any plans of making a tutorial video about common mistakes beginners make?

0:17 for making it 100% through the entire video!

Thanks!

I like to have a gentle slope outwards on my mug rims, but still with enough thickness to protect against the chances of chipping. As for footrings, my main product is yarnbowls. By their very nature, they need to be heavy, particularly bottom heavy. I have had a few potters (middle aged men) walk up to my stands at yatnshows, pick my yarnbowls up, feel the weight, snigger and walk away. I laugh at their ignorance every time. That aside, my compromise to giving that illusion of lightness and to protect the outer edge of the footring, is I round it off by a few millimetres. Its not so much a visual thing as my yarnies are very round and so the footring isn't really visible unless the bowl is elevated, but I know, and I make my work to last.

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Yet another incredibly useful and informative video. I started noticing the importance of the shape of the lip of a mug long before I ever got into ceramics (I absolutely hate drinking from thick-rimmed mugs), and it's definitely one of the things I've been focusing on in my throwing. Can't say I'm anywhere near consistent with anything at all, but perhaps least of all this - the balance of making the rim the right shape, keeping both the taper and roundness around what you want is incredibly finicky and difficult for me. There have been far too many mugs and pots where I've had to re-do the rim quite a few times as I've either rounded it too much, thinned it too much, gotten the angle wrong, or some mixture of the above. But it's also great practice! Btw, do you have any advice for preserving relatively thinly thrown rims when trimming the base of a vessel? Making a leather-hard chuck isn't really feasible for me at least, and I've seen too many rims ruined from them sticking just a tad too well to the wheel while trimming.

This subject is so helpful My goal is to eventually throw water sealed fermentation crocks If you have any experience with them I would love to learn more about them

I don't think many people consciously realize how important the tactile aesthetics are in pottery, particularly for functional pieces.

All my pots change their shape during drying process i never get perfect circle at the end 😢. Im using homemade clay and coil building technique without whell. I think slightly different thickness in wall make uneven staying and shape losing. Or im wrong?

Cheeky! I approve. 😁

Cool

I'm curious, my father used to put those pieces that were glazed to the bottom on simple risers. Why isnt that an option in your mind?

I started pottery last year, till then you only had few basics covered like how to centre (which came naturally to me), how to pull outward from centre ... I kept starving for your videos covering basics coz i could see myself being more easily grasping your tried and tested methods. Now when i am away from my hobbies i want to somehow get back to it. I know you have trained few people but i want to vet trained here in India. Is there a way you can spare few hours weekly. Through your videos i have created bowls thin, delicate and light just like you taught later in your videos. I had a tough time pulling walls as thin but later i realised its all bcoz of rim it feels that they are super thin. I self realised your technique to slightly narrow rhe rim to outer circumference, which you also mentioned in a video earlier.

Is there a special mixture or a type of dish for cooking water?

rare doggie sighting

It's a shame you didn't glaze one of the square tops.

10:08 and 9:15 doesn't look very stable on the table. Why would you chose so small (in diameter) bottom! It's totally insane. I have knocked over my cup pf coffee n-times because of small bottom until I finally purchased a cylindrical cup. So imagine, you have a party and someone or you spill all over the table because of the small and dumb bottom!?

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