How To Make a Coil Pot (the Easy Way) 

Something a little different from my usual today, more of a tutorial or class. I have a whole playlist of coil pottery building videos of you want more of that ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Cmb2VEaWLOE.html

Tedious? I find it fascinating! Those big pots are super expensive at the stores. Your demonstrations are priceless! Thank you for the tutorial!

I found this really helpful thanks for the tutorial!

I never enjoyed coiling pots, but after watching nearly all your videos I am addicted. Thankyou for showing me.😌

3 easy steps and pinches I got it. I'm making mine with mica clay from new Mexico thank you for the wonderful tutorial

Enjoyed this video. Cheers...Freddie

Nice and clear. Anyone who watches your videos will have all the information they need to make primitive pottery.

This is amazing Andy ! I’ll definitely be revisiting this video quite a lot haha.

I think is the perfect size for a bean pot is so pretty.

Great video fella, thank you.

I love the coil method, thank you for sharing your knowledge, very useful and absolutely beautiful. 🤗

Thank you Andy. Please make more videos.

Thank You this was fun video.

Nice work I like this kind of video

I just discovered your channel, and I love it! I worked in clay for years doing hand building. This was about 1977- 1983. I first worked in the clay studio at the Royal Oak Campus of Oakland Community College in Michigan. It became a large studio of functional potters, who basically used it and audited classes to get the studio space and sell in their huge Christmas Show. Since I loved doing Raku, I went out to the Orchard Ridge Campus to work with Robert Piepenburg, who authored a book on Raku. Loved it! I hand built sculptures based on ancient stone tools and neolithic monuments. Long story short, I had a family and did all the Mom things. I changed to watercolor painting because it was more child friendly. Finding your channel makes me realize how much I miss working in clay. So I’m gonna break out the clay and have some fun building some pots and other things. I’m gonna show your video to my grandchildren and have some fun with them. Andy, you are an excellent teacher! I am so enjoying your videos! Thanks so very much! Barbara Cordell Catithers

Well, I bought some clay and I am going to try to make a bowl, then fire it in my back yard. I have been watching your videos. Long term goal is to dig my own clay like you can make a pot. The clay will come from land that has been in our family since civil war. That would be a pretty cool conversation piece. Unfortunately I won’t have time for another week or two to get started, but that is ok. Thank you for posting these videos

Fantastic way of teaching, so good to watch. Thanks!

You are so frickin cool. Man I wish i was potters apprentice.

Great Video! U r my wild clay hero Andy! I have learned so much from u and look forward to all of ur videos.

This is a video I’ve been waiting for! Back to the basics. Simple but not seeming to gloss over anything

Nice to see you do a flat bottom pot. I know you don't see many of them in archeology, but they do seem to turn up from time to time.

Hola buen dia! realmente tu canal saco todas mis dudas sobre la tierra, y sigo todos tus videos soy de caleta olivia, provincia de santa cruz, Argentina. gracias. Hello good morning! Your channel really removes all my doubts about the earth, and I follow all your videos. I am from Caleta Olivia, province of Santa Cruz, Argentina. thank you.

Absolutely wonderful. I've read this is basically the oldest method, and for good reason. No need for fancy equipment or anything like that

Thanks for this tutorial I usually only made pinch pots because I couldn't really make coil pots. but after a bit of practice I can make coil pots much better than pinch pots. The nice thing about coil pots is that you can have a larger variety of pots you can make other than pinch pots

“Does your wheel thrown pottery make you want to throw up?” 😂😂😂😂😂 OMFG

"I'm a little disappointed on your performance of this (pop quiz)..." Rolling on the floor laughing. That was so funny!

Good idea with the quizes; with help us retain the info. Also, good idea with the playlist! You go Andy! I'll keep watchin' :)

Didn't see th link so i could do pottery with u on Wed. would love to

Nice video! Great tutorial! Thanks Andy!

First video of yours I saw. Really enjoy the chanel. Something I've always wanted to get into at an amateur level

I was looking for this type of video

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Andy, all your videos are awesome, but this one stands out. Your demo camera work was so easy to see...could really see what was happening with the shape of your pot wall...Your jokes about "note taking" gave me a great laugh...I don't know, this video just really glows. Thank you so much!

Beginner's question, will a pot such as the one made in this video do well with typical firing in an electric kiln?

Nice video! Michael

please show us how youlay our patterns on your bowls thank you

спасибо

Compress, compress, compress and score from the start.

How long does it usually take for your pots to get bone dry in your environment?

instead of a knife you can use sandpaper ,if you let it dry a bit

ваши ролики можно смотреть только по запросу на английском языке а на русском вас в поиске нет ....спасибо все понятно и интересно

thanks for your vids andy! and i wanted to build an oil lamp today, so i dragged out some clay that had been sitting in my cabinet for a couple months (i'm a beginner, running a pizza shop so time is limited), and i found my clay was too dry. the coils i rolled cracked when bending them, so i added water, kneaded, added water, kneaded, but the clay just seemed to get worse and worse, even more cracks than before. so it's sitting wrapped up in plastic in a lidded bucket, i'll take it out tomorrow, and see if the consistency has improved. Do you have ANY ADVICE for knowing how much water is needed in the clay for this type of coil building. My clay is bought from a local studio ( i live in Taiwan, and my chinese knowledge of ceramics is zilch, but it's a dull gray clay, and i've fired it up before to 1220C and glazed with woodash glaze with good results), so i don't know exactly what it is. thank you again, i love your vids.

At the last part use to oil?

The temps get really high when you burn wood in a rocket stove. Wouldn't it be possible to fire your clay in that? Thanks.

How many ounces of clay would you guess you used to make this pot?

Andy. im fairly certain ive read something that claims the native Iroquois made their pots by building the clay around dried gourds and then burning the gourd out leaving the clay behind in the shape if the gourd. do you have any idea how they could have prevented cracking and shrinkage in that process?

How thick is to thick total wall thickness At 25% to 30% sand

wrow I have the same grey bowl

Do you think a beginner can successfully make a small pot using your method , in an hour?

Every time I make a coil and try to bend it, it breaks. Does this mean I have bad clay for pottery ?

What clay are you using?

Would one of your pots hold water At this time I have a coffee can holding my water filter I wish I add a photo

Try making a person out of clay it works

POP QUIZ?

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