3 pottery tips and 1 health tip ! with Simon Leach

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Ай бұрын

www.simonleachpottery.com
Tea shirt is on my Etsy shop.
Join us tomorrow for a workshop…seriously!
Practice these tips !
SL

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@coopart1 Ай бұрын

I have learned to be a potter over the last few years from this man. My advice to anyone new to this channel is watch all of Simon leach videos !

@OutpostPottery Ай бұрын

Me too! I picked up pottery again in 2017 and Simon was my main teacher on youtube. Thank you Simon for so generously sharing your expertise and your life! Agreed on Moringa

@suzannefurman3957 Ай бұрын

79 now with a Drop Foot and a messed up left hand so not potting any more LOL . Shimpo still in studio with a bat setup using studs you could screw in the top of the wheel head. Bats were 8 inch squares and 12 inch rounds. Absolutely everything got thrown on a bat and tooled in a tooling gizmo made out of plastic. I was a one woman band doing production LOL. Wound up at 54 living in a remote county on the Tennessee line where Gensing and Turkey Tail mushrooms grow. But a Stones throw from Downtown Asheville NC . My large account was Mountain Made at the Grove Arcade. Did a lot of Slip Carving with a Vine and Leaf pattern. Life was good. Take care ❤😊

@draviwolfe Ай бұрын

You are a gift to us! Love to hear Greg in the background!

@annemiedema8491 Ай бұрын

Visites last week the pottery and museum of your grandfather Bernard in St. Ives. They let me try the special wheel, you use yourself. Lovely experience.

@carolinep717 Ай бұрын

I learnt to throw with your videos on a stand-up kick wheel. I had to learn all over again after I bought an electric wheel as I thought I was speedy gonzalas. I wouldn’t put anything in the kiln for months until I could master a cylinder. You’re a great teacher.

@d.jensen5153 Ай бұрын

Tell you what: If Millheim weren't 1985 miles away I'd have loved nothing better than to pop into your pottery for professional throwing instruction this weekend!

@rabooshka101 Ай бұрын

Love the music too 😌

@harshclimate Ай бұрын

I've been recovering from covid and I have binged watched all your videos and I must say, your company has been very much appreciated. I'm 6 days in to pottery as a new hobby and I'm loving it. Sadly, covid paused this for a bit but I'm getting over it and will resume. I expect to review your videos when I'm back on my feet, but I do feel like, with your guidance, that I have learned a lot already and looking forward to applying it soon. Thanks again! - Brian

@spitrock33 Ай бұрын

Enjoying your art work very much. Hope you could do a video about your clay bodies you find both good and not so good.

@user-ov6bl6iz3e Ай бұрын

Thank you for the useful tips

@joycepan8222 Ай бұрын

Hi Simon! Went to the October workshop. Getting ready to invest in my own wheel and enjoying the various reviews you’ve done. Still practicing my 12 oz 5 inch cylinders! I’ve got my first wood firing share in June. Hope to visit you in a workshop again soon. Joyce

@mirandamacd836 12 күн бұрын

Another fantastic video full of great tips! thank you

@patriceleduc3762 Ай бұрын

Thank you Simon for your tips, I always like your videos. Take care!

@erikwilliams8703 Ай бұрын

Thanks for the tips Simon!!!I really like that new shirt of yours:)

@abiblabla 28 күн бұрын

I've tried wetting the rim the other day - worked beautifully! Thank you. I'll try to use that method now instead of placing clay to hold the pot (it was always ruining the perfectly rounded rim)

@neilanthonyhaywardlewis8978 Ай бұрын

Agree, tap centering is an important pottery skill to learn, saves so much time, I use a clay bat pad, for batts if I need to use one, but I always use the "Leach" methods, they never fail me, 😊it Just needs some practice everyone, so, keep practicing!! 😀

@suzannefurman3957 Ай бұрын

I had large 15 inch homemade bats that I would throw a clay bat pad . To remove the bat I could give it a twist. Fluff up the clay bat rings and put another bat on it. Good for platters and low large serving bowls and casseroles.

@sleachpots Ай бұрын

That’s the way !

@Mikedartagnan Ай бұрын

My bat pins are stuck so I throw off batt, but I do lift the pots off unless they have a very wide base, in which case I let them dry out a bit first.

@barbaraopitz6244 Ай бұрын

Hello there Simon! Tap centering is potters' chutzpah! Love it! Am into superfoods as they are like medicine 4 th' body...yay! Clay is medicine .................called Kaopectate! oh boy, enough of this..........Don't overthink things. :)

@TheInfoworks Ай бұрын

Right, don't estimate the high spot, just gentle taps, thanks

@mikeu5380 Ай бұрын

I got a t-shirt that says, "Caution: I've been known to throw things"

@soloflyr1 Ай бұрын

Thanks for the tips!

@lorag7801 Ай бұрын

Another vote for moringa tea here! 🎉

@Veronica.John10-10 Ай бұрын

Sponsored by Dole Bananas. (Moringa is just a green herring)

@theferallife8812 Ай бұрын

Townes Van Zandt!!!

@Veronica.John10-10 Ай бұрын

perfect tee for this episode :)

@pamboone4458 Ай бұрын

I am guilty of “overthinking” while trying to tap center. Thanks for your tutorial!!❤

@suzannefurman3957 Ай бұрын

Tapping center is a Zen thing. You are best not thinking but being. After all throwing and tooling are actually Moving Meditation. Actually persuing Yoga or Tai Chi could be helpful. As Sufi Sam used to say Thinking is Stinking LOL. Whirling is self centering.

@sleachpots Ай бұрын

Yes overthinking a bad idea, head getting in the way of heart, (((feel the motion))),

@pottersjournal Ай бұрын

@@suzannefurman3957 Great meeting you here at Simon's party. Clay since 1979, not always on the wheel, currently 1000 pots a year. Don't know why never tapped. Cheat by placing centered in wheel ring marks, spin, adjust and go. Simons so got it with why all the bats even with production potters? Then the generic stamps thing?

@thecreativelifeoflee5533 Ай бұрын

Yes aches and pains for sure! I will try this tea thx. I’m also trying earthing which is barefoot grounding yourself to the earth. There’s a documentary about it very interesting. I’ve been barefoot ever since I watched it. Thanks again!

@richjakowski1056 Ай бұрын

Hey Simon - do you know the 4 cardinal signs of inflammation?

@LazyStudioGaming Ай бұрын

I like that color

@sleachpots Ай бұрын

Yes it’s unusual, I like it.

@DunoonVanRijn-dx1hr Ай бұрын

The people selling tools and glazes are making huge profits

@sleachpots Ай бұрын

?? Some people maybe, bit of a generalization I would say. Less is more and better! Too many people buying generic tools and stamps etc, computer generated , laser cut, lack of creativity for sure…. But it is 2024 and people “want it now” , no patience !