Hey Everyone, It feels great to make a NEW VIDEO! I have a bunch more tape and will be putting them as soon as I get them edited. It's good to be back.
Hi, Timsee. I'm Hitoshi, a Japanese. I've shouted "Help! I can't center " for four months. Your video is the most exciting and useful. Thank you for helping me.
I was given a five days in a class to learn how to make a simple pot in pottery (one of the days was used for wedging.) I was given an introductory CD on how to make a pot, and no further guidance. I had all of the issues you showed here, yet my instructor never had any advice on how to fix it. You have taught me so much more in just 7 minutes. Thank you!
Honestly, I believe when a teacher can't offer enough guidance to help you grasp a task, it means they aren't confident enough with it themselves. Your teacher, and mine just don't feel confident enough about the wheel to teach it properly. I have learned more in the first few minutes of this video than in my two hour class this week!! That I frickin paid heaps for!! Hahaha And yeah, thanks video maker:)!
gg lax I had to deal with that too. Definitely try to get a different teacher, a refund, file a complaint. Some people just want the money. You have to have done a lot of pottery before you can teach it. Sad.
You need to re title this video: nearly 100 super awesome tips for beginners in less than 10 minutes. Nearly every single thing you say is useful, thanks Tim.
SO HELPFUL. I was having good beginner's luck with centering until this week, when I kept getting "volcanoes"...it was a total mystery to me. Thanks for explaining! I'm having trouble keeping my right hand down by the wheel as the left hand cones down....have to keep working on that.
I just learned more in that 7 min video than I did in a whole year with a pottery teacher. Mind you, it was more focused on hand building, but no matter how much I asked to learn the wheel, and was allowed to try, there was zero useful information. I was told centering just gets learned. And yet - 7 mins - I have a clear idea now. THANK YOU! :D
This is the best instruction video series I've ever seen on pottery on the wheel. I have taken ceramics for three years and have learned so much from the "Help!" series because I get to see all of the mistakes I've made and how to correct them! Thanks so much for making me a much better student and less afraid to experiment.
This....this how I learned to center. I do every technique in this video and now i can small cylinders and bowls in a heart beat all because I learned how to center
i started my wheel practice recently and your videos are very helpful. i train my skills every day for an hour or so and then in the evening watch your videos again and i'm like "aha! that's where i was doing it wrong!" and then try again the other day and my throwing goes better. now my percantage of successful tries increased from zero to 60%. thank you TimSee! keep doing what you're doing. with love, Inna
This is still one of the best videos I have seen. Whenever I start having trouble with my wheel, I come back to this video, reaffirm my foundation and that usually solves or helps me diagnose what I am doing wrong.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU - you are DA BEST teacher EVER!!! Your videos are the MOST iinformative of all. I cant say enough of how much I've learned from you, your description of what moves to do and NOT do, etc...I''ve never finished watching your videos without a smile! Thank you again and welcome back! and (as also with me) whatever issues you were facing, may you have learned something or forgotten something from them. GB
Ohhh Tim, Beginner wheeler here, taking lessons from a very good artist and production potter, Walked into this about 1 1/2 months ago, already bought a wheel to have at home, I am soooo Hooked on Clay! Challenging yet relaxing, well it will be when I start breathing while I'm pulling up LOL ... You speak my language, Awesome beginner teacher!!!!! THANK YOU FOR THESE VIDEOS!!!!!! many Hugs Katie OH PS: One way I've found to get closer to center, (yeah this is for total I can't see center'ers like me) Before I whack the clay down, I set it dead center and kinda push it enough so that it makes a little mark showing where the clay is sitting, THEN and only then can I whack it close to center.... and for your entertainment the First teacher I had told me you have to THROW the clay on the wheel... soooo beginner brain, literally I stood up and from ohhh 3 ft or so THREW the ball of clay at the wheel.... ya know letting go of the ball, dang thing never hit center LOL Some of us ahemm, me, take things wayyyy to literally ....
Thank you! This video goes over a variety of common problems with centering and attacks them one by one. This is better than most centering tutorials because usually they just go, "hey, do this, and be stable and stuff." Very good, thanks.
Fantastic, I now understand what has been going wrong for years and why sometimes my centering has worked perfectly and sometimes it has failed massively. Thank you!
I am just starting out on the road to pottery and find these vids or films a great help, here in sussex I have only found one course on pottery. a one day course in the whole of the county through the council. So I am trying to teach myself instead.
Its a great video.Few insights can help you so much for a beginner to move on.I attend classes but no one was competent enough to put it the way you did.They kept on finding faults with the positioning of my hands.Thanks a ton.
Thank you, I have been fighting with my clay for a while now. I learnt to center on a standing wheel and am now sitting so I will give your methods a try.
I am a first year art teacher in a small school. They haven't had a ceramics program in years. Even though I took ceramics in college it has been years since I have been on the wheel. I mainly wanted to say that your videos are more than just a refresher, they are inspirational. I hope to inspire my H.S. students like you have inspired me. Your videos are so greatly appreciated!
Thanks so much!, I'm so glad I saw your videos before heading up to my ceramics class this morning. I was getting so frustrated with the centerng of the clay and making a cilinder, yesterday I felt like I would never learn to throw and about to quit classes. Thanks to you I have made 1 very decent cilinder. I'm sooo happy!!
2:10 In school i was taught to push from one direction, wedging my elbows into my stomach or hips to push with my whole torso. I never had it slip off.
Thank you. I was dealing with ramps, volcanoes and mushrooms today and wondering how to fix them, or if they even mattered. You are the only RU-vidr I’ve seen who really deals with these faults.
This was extremly helpful! There are plenty of videos showing "ah, you just do this and ta-daa now it's a bowl". I'm a beginner, I am bound to make plenty of mistakes and knowing what not to do or how to fix your mistakes is way more helpful to me.
Thank you thank you thank you. I learnt to centre on a standing wheel and the technique was just not transferable to a sitting wheel. After watching your technique and after many attempts I have now thrown 6 (you count them) 6 cylinders. I can't wait to get back to the studio again.
Thank you so much for this video! I've been trying to teach myself how to throw from home for the past few weeks and your video perfectly explained exactly what I was doing wrong!
Hello, I have done all these things and been very disappointed, now I can see how to correct them I am excited to start again. Thank you so much for sharing. June
WHAT A GOD, all these videos just showing how to center and not actually how to fix mistakes and i find this masterpiece. I SEE YOU HAVE OTHER HELP VIDEOS TOO, i love u ,
Just went back to see a few of your videos again. I am really happy to see this particular one, as I continue be become baffled by some of the common throwing errors that still come up. I know I will come back to it again and again, until I get it right.
Hi Tim, glad to see you answering some posts recently. I'm (still) having a little trouble centering and I'm thinking that the clay just might be too hard! When I watch your videos (and all the rest out there) I notice the clay looks a heck of a lot softer than what I'm using. Any tips on making the clay just a LITTLE bit softer..and actually, how soft should it be? Could you say poke a finger into it easily? Appreciate any tips you could give. Thanks!
I just got home from my first time using a wheel since I was a kid. I watched a couple of your videos about centering before I went, and I was centering like a pro, right from the get go. At least I thought so. I didn't keep anything, like you said throw it till it breaks. I did that maybe half a dozen times. Next time, maybe I'll have a keeper. Fingers crossed. Thanks for the great lessons.
@@timseepots I ran into several of the issues you talked about in this, and your other one. Your video saved me a lot of frustration I saw other people experiencing. I think my issue with throwing, is not keeping my elbow in my hip, and trying to use my whole hand, not just a couple fingers.
Subscribed.....I'm new at this...."wife is teaching me" but she is refreshing also ....just got a wheel/kiln .....this video helps alot ... keep up the good work
glad you're back!! excited to learn some new stuff! do you think you could do a tutorial on throwing big things and knuckle lifts and such, I seem to REALLY get uneven walls when throwing big and I think its because of my lifting technique, what technique do you use?
I JUST went to your Facebook page today to see what the heck happened to you. You've been missed here on You Tube. You're so talenented, both as a potter and as a clear and engaging teacher. I always pick up something useful from your videos. Thanks again. Rick
I've been throwing for just a couple of days now, mastered centering just by watching a few other vids and have produced a pretty good piece in an hr and a half. IMPORTANT:- always use a not really a locked but stiff, supporting hand, otherwise it goes off center/centre and it's buggered. Obviously it's good to start with a volcano when you're making any kind of pot, vase, bowl etc.
I’m sure you went and watched the video, the help I can’t series is for people that are struggling with parts of throwing or pottery and I show what can go wrong and how to fix them.
