How to make Custom DIY Pottery Tools.

We will look at making and designing custom pottery tools, at home, for little or no money. This video will get you started on the idea of how to build pottery tools to help make and finish custom designs and pottery processes. The tool we build will be basic and simple. But the techniques you learn can be expanded to accommodate almost any pottery project.

[@charleyhogan6575]

Such a great video. Have been potting a while and recently have started to get into making my own tools. Your tips on recycling materials are especially helpful. Excellently explained aswell

[@itsclearasmud7718]

Thanks. I need to get on more videos.

[@SS-mp4wl]

Great up cycling!!! Necessity is
the mother of a lot!

[@sarahjarden8306]

Love the re-purposing of windscreen wipers bits. Very clever!

[@itsclearasmud7718]

I really love taking nothing and making something out of it; 25 lb bags of clay come to mind. Waste also bugs me. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@tegannottelling]

I really like your videos. They are well thought out and you have an excellent teaching style. Not too wordy but you impart the need to know very well. You are more for the serious potter than the flutterers out there, which in my books is an excellent thing and great resource.

[@itsclearasmud7718]

Thanks. That's my intent. There are lots of vids showing how to throw various forms. They are extremely useful. I want to examine things that are important but perhaps more specific. And even with that I find videos already covering my topics. I've hit ceramics hard over the last 55 years. Everything from china painting to building/ designing my own ram press. I'm just getting started with things that a budding production potter might need to get going. Hopefully more exciting stuff to come. I won't be doing 6 foot tall raku work again but I will share the tech to get you there if you wish.

[@frankhott179]

I’ve used plastic cutting boards from the dollar store to cut with my scroll saw for custom profile ribs. I also use them to put my wet test tiles on, fresh from the extruder, to dry. I have a 4-number rubber stamp to give each test tile a unique number before they dry.

[@itsclearasmud7718]

I really like profile ribs. A lot of potters have never tried them. Deneen Pottery uses them in their custom mug production. In combo with a pointer that is one heck of a replication method. I use those cutting boards for extruder dies.

[@judgetoogood1033]

Thank you. 😊😊😊

[@itsclearasmud7718]

You are welcome. The thing I really like about making my own tools. Is designing and building them for special applications. The stuff I show in the vid is pretty standard; but I've made trim tools that do specific work; tools I could not purchase. Happy potting!

[@memoiresieb5395]

Very well explained! So useful

[@vitormachado1531]

Great ideas! Thanks

[@mzzm8313]

You rock!

[@seuzen5570]

would love to see how you shape your mugs -- final pull with a profile rib?

[@itsclearasmud7718]

By profile rib do you mean a preshaped rib that establishes the final outside shape of the mug? I have made those and tried them a couple times.

[@seuzen5570]

@@itsclearasmud7718 basically, I’d like to see you shape your cups-since I commented, I have watched the episode where you handle your cups and would like to see how you shape your cups after you pull them to the height/width you desire. I have problems with consistency in terms of shaping my mugs

[@kylebourgouin8673]

Looks and sounds exactly like the sad lonely man i imagined

[@itsclearasmud7718]

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[@piendevee3803]

22 shell? Bullets? 😂

[@piendevee3803]

But great other ideas! Thanks

[@itsclearasmud7718]

Well.. go buy a length of brass tubing at the hardware store. Once you see the price a few free spent 22 cases will look better.