How to Throw & Trim Narrow Cylinders — A Surprisingly Difficult Shape!

In this weekend's video, I'm tackling what's famously quite a difficult form to throw, a simple, but deceptively tricky narrow cylindrical vase. Thrown with a sturdy rim and balanced, consistent walls, to ensure the pot doesn't warp as it dries out to leather hard for trimming. This is key, as in the past I used to throw these really thin and light but I'd end up making the trimming harder than need be, as these delicate cylinders would the dry unevenly and bend to one side, whereas nowadays I'm just kinder to myself at the throwing stage and then I turn them quite excessively into very crisp, refined forms. I hope you find the video helpful.

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How to cone clay:    • How to Cone Clay on the Potter's Wheel — A...  
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Timecodes:
0:00 - Introduction & notes on ideal interior shapes
2:03 - Clay preparation
3:04 - Centring the clay
4:09 - The importance of the initial, opened base
6:14 - How to fix a 'rippling' base
8:16 - Why I leave the rims thick
8:30 - Using throwing sticks to fix the interior form
10:45 - Why it's important to dry these vases out slowly...
13:22 - How I dry these overnight
13:41 - Trimming the vases
14:43 - Trimming & bevelling the rim
15:56 - Trimming the base of the vase
18:33 - A ramble about how variance in ceramics is a good thing!
21:22 - Clean up

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