Trying to throw make a perfect clay pottery sphere / ball vase on the wheel

[Mishie146]

In my experience, little though it may be, it greatly helps to use either a wooden rib or a medium soft plastic rib on the outside while you are stretching the walls into a spherical form. For whatever reason, it keeps the clay more stable, especially if you have the wheel turning a bit slower than what you would for pulling up the walls.

[Calibz]

Very nice!

Those spheres could easily make interesting looking teapots, especially if you manipulated their shape after you first throw the ball.

[wolfhound692]

Dam, I want to lern that

[rachelduncan123]

@wolfhound692  HAHA no offense but i really think you should LERN how to spell first ;)

[ro413900]

that was great too bad you cant close it all the way cause of the air bubbles

[bagelkel00]

I hope I'll be as talanted as you one day :)

[hellorodney]

terrific thanks

[FlamingHomelessDude]

you never closed it up......



[crazykid9919]

@FlamingHomelessDude THERE GO VASE

[HellHound60248]

@FlamingHomelessDude He said "ball vase"

[1948Skippy]

I love watching your videos. I'm going to my pottery studio and try some of your techniques. How did you make your trimming tools? Especially the one that looks like a "church key", aka can opener.

[sodade21]

amazing!! very good and very fast..i bet i cant do that anyway but i will try. i have a few ideas of the use if this ;)

[felixpreta]

I like it. Thanks Dan for this video.

[jbjosh100]

dan, i would really like to see a pot made from your point of view, so maybe a head-cam or something like that would be really helpful. :)

[patnibs333]

You should glaze it like a soccer/football. It's very fun to watch what ever you make your so fluid in your movements.

[Mariede425]

show off ;-)) I just saw this video - you are amazing, and so very glad you are now in the world of "talkies", much appreciated. One question, if this was a totally closed form, would you pierce it somewhere before firing? or else, wouldn't it explode? Thank you for your videos, please please keep them coming

[trillfire]

that would actually make a good cup wit a straw because it would be almost impossible to spill ur juice :D

[TheEmoTrinityXXX]

i made a piggy bank!

[whocares1814]

THAT is so cute! I love it! <3

[notawuss]

I love it. It's my favorite pottery shape. It doesn't have to have a purpose, just being beautiful is enough.  Poke some pussy willows through the hole or maybe some forsythia. Wonderful. I made one once, but it was too tall, sort of oblong, and I didn't have the skill to roundify it. So at the equator I pushed out a little ridge from the inside. That brought the height down, which gave it the roundness I was aiming for. It looked like Saturn's ring, and it was the best I ever did.

[SwGkentuckyC]

a trick i use for getting a piece such as a bottle to have a nice sphere shape is to seal the top with your mouth and blow into it and expand the clay slightly. you look kinda stupid but it gets the job done

[MrLowercase42]

i just CAN'T look away! i'm pretty sure it's impossible!

[bakupossy]

you have hundreds of videos u are amazing!!!!!!!!!!

[madvolleyball95]

pottery fascinates me.

[setchemati]

now all you have to do is figure out how to make it bounce

[jasuschrist]

@setchemati just put some flubber all around it.

[DubGongTuff]

The death star!

[dec3iver]

I build computer networks for a living but am interested in this as a hobby. As someone starting out new could you tell me a few things such as do you make your own clay? Could someone build they're own kiln for home hobby use? Thanks for the great videos!

[darkempressdomain]

my gosh...I"ve been trying to do this for a long time...I'm impressed...awesome job my friend...I'm definitely trying this one tomorrow at school...lol

[doriecronin]

really great! thanks dorie

[superuberchicken]

It's so...round.

[911no]

Make a second one and glaze them blue and you could have a pair of blue balls.

[offcenteredpotter]

as always, great to see your post

[UnitedProviences]

It could be a big ash tray?

[tokyorosa]

Awesome!

Two more holes and you could make lightweight pottery bowling balls. Is bowling big in your town? A whole new market could open up...

[SpifySavannah]

@tokyorosa =o How would that work out when you threw the ball down?? This is what I imagine would happen... "Hey guys! Check out this new clay bowling ball I bought! This is my first time using it, I'll give it a go right now." -the person throws the ball down the lane- -BOWLING BALL SMASHED ALL OVER THE LANE- ... Hmm....

[beachblond628]

How difficult is it to do that shape?

[geriatricguru]

huge Christmas tree ornament.

[quickhalfpint]

Well done!! Glazed multi blues and out to the garden....water fountain....

Robin

[JamesHaskin]

Nice job man :D

[JamesHaskin]

@seekatruth polygons are two dimensional ;)

[SoxJohnny]

try to make a bowling pin

[clearvision5]

I love this! Very cool!

[tykat12]

Maybe cut a hole in the front and hang it up somehow for a bird feeder?

Or a tea light holder with some nifty cut out shapes, make the bottom detachable!

Either way, I liked the video!

[notawuss]

Very lovely. This is a good pot for raku--something with no function--because the raku glaze doesn't bond tightly and flakes off, making it unsafe for food and unable to contain water. Art pottery. I love this kind of stuff, eggs and globes. They just blow me away.

[elStarvingArtist]

Awesome!

[Hindsite502]

most impressive

[petaaaaa1234]

impressive