Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
My YouTube video this weekend is one I promised you recently, it’s all about chucks, chums and the newly named cheeks, the etymology had to be preserved. These are custom clay tools that fit inside the pots you make to make trimming easier and in this week’s upload, I’m demonstrating both how to throw them and use them after the heavy, sturdy pieces have turned leather hard. If you’d like to watch a much longer explanation, you can find the fully narrated video via the Linktree in my profile’s biography.
Chucks, (I’ll use this as the universal term for the three distinct shapes from hereafter), are tools I find the most useful when trimming many multiples of the same shape as they help eliminate time wasted centring pots and attaching them securely down onto the wheel, instead the chuck is centred and each vessel is simply slotted over it for trimming, the solid mass of clay holding the pot in place.
Not only that, but the chuck helps to preserve the shape of the opening of the pot, it can even correct oval or misshapen openings, as the leather hard clay of the pot that’s still relatively soft adapts to the roundness of the chuck as it’s inserted over it. I even use a chuck on all my handles vessels to quickly reshape the rim just in case they’ve been drawn into an oval shape as the new appendage pulls the rim to one side.
Thanks so much for taking your time to watch if you happen to click over onto my YouTube channel, it’s very greatly appreciated.
#pottery #chucks #tools #toolsofthetrade #ceramics #tutorial #clay
My YouTube video this weekend is one I promised you recently, it’s all about chucks, chums and the newly named cheeks, the etymology had to be preserved. These are custom clay tools that fit inside the pots you make to make trimming easier and in this week’s upload, I’m demonstrating both how to throw them and use them after the heavy, sturdy pieces have turned leather hard. If you’d like to watch a much longer explanation, you can find the fully narrated video via the Linktree in my profile’s biography.
Chucks, (I’ll use this as the universal term for the three distinct shapes from hereafter), are tools I find the most useful when trimming many multiples of the same shape as they help eliminate time wasted centring pots and attaching them securely down onto the wheel, instead the chuck is centred and each vessel is simply slotted over it for trimming, the solid mass of clay holding the pot in place.
Not only that, but the chuck helps to preserve the shape of the opening of the pot, it can even correct oval or misshapen openings, as the leather hard clay of the pot that’s still relatively soft adapts to the roundness of the chuck as it’s inserted over it. I even use a chuck on all my handles vessels to quickly reshape the rim just in case they’ve been drawn into an oval shape as the new appendage pulls the rim to one side.
Thanks so much for taking your time to watch if you happen to click over onto my YouTube channel, it’s very greatly appreciated.
#pottery #chucks #tools #toolsofthetrade #ceramics #tutorial #clay
