Centering Clay pottery

The basics of how I center.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• pottery
• clay
• ceramics
• throwing
• wheel
• centering

[BPACH]

I took 5 lessons and didnt manage to even make a salsa dish. I couldn't get my clay to center. After watch 2 minutes and 48 seconds of this video I sat at the wheel and made my first piece. Thanks for teaching the technique in easy to understand language.

[timseepots]

@BPACH there is another video on the side there you might find helpful as well called First day of class.

[HCmakeyab00m]

wow, you center super fast.

I'm in ceramics II, and i somehow lost my centering skill over summer (lol) - this helped a lot

[timseepots]

you can check out" first day of class" as well I made it more recently and it goes over centering and such a little better I think... there is also "centering and posture"

[Elivewire]

THANK-YOU!! You've explained it/demonstrated it so well!! I'm an art ed. student/ceramateer and I'm doing a lesson on centering tomorrow for a high school class. You did a great job of putting all the steps into words, after watching it I feel just a little bit more prepared;)Don't worry, I'll give you credit, maybe i'll even show this video! I will show the class this video!they just had to watch the WORST pottery video in class,so BORING...now they can see that cool people do ceramics!WHOO!

[timseepots]

Yeah! someday I will turn all the videos into classroom prep materials but I like making pots not dvds.  Good luck!

[PaisleyPlace]

Please add more videos like this one and the others. You have an excellent descriptive teaching style (works well for the blind) and an excellent physical/visual teaching that will assist others (sighted and partially blind). Excellent video; great information regarding ergonomics, which is extremely important.

[heartbroken1041]

man u got a sub u deserve it your great am having trouble and i a, in ceramics 2 and this is helpful

[heartbroken1041]

@HCmakeyab00m damn me tooo

[BonbonVivi]

Great videos! Thanks so much for uploading these, they’re fab!

If you get any chance to answer a couple of questions I’d be really appreciative but if not thanks again for the vids anyway! They’re super helpful :-)

1) I can usually center fine but end up with a wide skirt of clay. I know it can be removed anda small skirt is required, but mine covers almost the entire wheel surface! What am I doing wrong?

2) How do I recenter a pot which has gone off center whilst being pulled up

[BonbonVivi]

Great videos! Thanks so much for uploading these, they’re fab!

If you get any chance to answer a couple of questions I’d be really appreciative but if not thanks again for the vids anyway! They’re super helpful :-)

1) I can usually center fine but end up with a wide skirt of clay. I know it can be removed anda small skirt is required, but mine covers almost the entire wheel surface! What am I doing wrong?

2) How do I recenter a pot which has gone off center whilst being pulled up?

[megaloo]

Very useful info, I was spiraling without realizing what I was doing wrong. Thanks for posting! :)

[jlo52bubbles]

I really hope this helped me because the throwing part of ceramics is super hard for me. I always get it like lopsided but i think i understand why now.