Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
It feels GREAT to be back on the wheel, can you believe I’ve been glazing and firing and organising my latest shop restock since March? It’s done a little bit of making in-between but my previous making cycle included far more pots than I’ve ever made before and it took an age to glaze them all, fettle them, fire them and photograph them.
But from next week I’ll be back making and as always, I settle into that process by throw and trimming a batch of pots I’ve been looking forward to creating, these tall-footed bowls with an indented rim section and an angular body, made in a manner that retains a curved interior form.
That’s the key with these and when throwing pots like this, if you were to attempt to fashion these distinct angular changes into the body during the throwing stage, the likelihood is you’d end up with an interior form that mirrors the exterior form and personally, I’m not too fond of a bowl shape that has a sort of angular inside shape as it goes against so much of what a bowl should be.
Thus, they’re intentionally thrown thick, especially the foot and lower third of the walls, this way I can trim all that excess away to reveal the more defined, architectural forms these pieces eventually have. Although like I’ve mentioned in the video, I don’t think it’s a very beginner friendly method and perhaps that would make a good topic for a future video. I do sometimes worry that beginners watch these clips and think this is how trimming is traditionally done, or perhaps it’s the easiest way, but it categorically isn’t, or both fronts. It’s convoluted and challenging and requires an extraordinary amount of care and attention, the kind of which that isn’t quite required when turning a bowl upside-down for instance, with a simple rounded body and a short foot. They’re almost entirely different processes and you can’t get to this point without spending a lot of time practicing the other method first.
#wheelthrownpottery #ceramics #craft #maker #handmade
It feels GREAT to be back on the wheel, can you believe I’ve been glazing and firing and organising my latest shop restock since March? It’s done a little bit of making in-between but my previous making cycle included far more pots than I’ve ever made before and it took an age to glaze them all, fettle them, fire them and photograph them.
But from next week I’ll be back making and as always, I settle into that process by throw and trimming a batch of pots I’ve been looking forward to creating, these tall-footed bowls with an indented rim section and an angular body, made in a manner that retains a curved interior form.
That’s the key with these and when throwing pots like this, if you were to attempt to fashion these distinct angular changes into the body during the throwing stage, the likelihood is you’d end up with an interior form that mirrors the exterior form and personally, I’m not too fond of a bowl shape that has a sort of angular inside shape as it goes against so much of what a bowl should be.
Thus, they’re intentionally thrown thick, especially the foot and lower third of the walls, this way I can trim all that excess away to reveal the more defined, architectural forms these pieces eventually have. Although like I’ve mentioned in the video, I don’t think it’s a very beginner friendly method and perhaps that would make a good topic for a future video. I do sometimes worry that beginners watch these clips and think this is how trimming is traditionally done, or perhaps it’s the easiest way, but it categorically isn’t, or both fronts. It’s convoluted and challenging and requires an extraordinary amount of care and attention, the kind of which that isn’t quite required when turning a bowl upside-down for instance, with a simple rounded body and a short foot. They’re almost entirely different processes and you can’t get to this point without spending a lot of time practicing the other method first.
#wheelthrownpottery #ceramics #craft #maker #handmade
