You are one of three potters that I follow regularly on youtube Matt. I alway thought I was very motivated and inspired before I started watching the three potter's I mentioned BUT hey! seems I wasn't LOL. I'm so grateful to people like yourself that take their precious `time out` to offer this very valuable support to us. I DEFINITELY AM now more `motivated` and very much more `inspired` after watching your video contributions Matt. Thank you my friend.

Looked for throwing taller pieces and yours popped up! It was perfect! Thank you! Gonna watch it a few times more and save!

This was nice. I have a love/hate relationship with planters that have attached trays. Still, it’s nice to know how to make them. Considering how many I’ve chipped, cussed, & outright broken, perhaps I’ll attempt to throw one. Keep adding bloopers. 👍🏼

Superb skills, fantastic to watch, and I am so happy to hear you encourage less water.

Beautiful work as always 💞👍

Beautiful! So happy to see you back on the Tube!♥♥♥

I second Clifords remarks i too follow another potter ,both so generous with your time thankyou mathew

I watch all your videos. I love your work. Great job.

Only recently discovered your channel. Love your explanations and impressed with your work. Motivated to try more, thank you!

Brilliant! Thank you Matthew. You are a master of your craft.

I've watched many similar videos, and yours is by far the most polished and informative. Great job!

I really like that catch line idea

Thanks for all of the tips. I wish I had known about you last February when I was in Seagrove. I would have really liked stopping by your store. Maybe some day again.

Excellent video, as always.

Beautiful 😮

Thank you.

This video is incredibly helpful! Thank you :)

Very happy that you're making videos again, they are a joy to watch. Really great explanations!

Thank you Matthew, very good video explaining everything as you throw. [cliff from london].

Beautiful vase! Your work is always fantastic. Keep up the vids, love watching you create the pieces.

Super video, glad to see you back!

Perfection! Thank you💐

Thank You for all your good videos. It was really nice to see the display of your finished pottery at the beginning of this one.

Great classic shape.

Great video as are all of your videos. The explanations you provide, the angles of the camera are very instructional.. And I'm a big fan of your work.

This was very helpful!!!

Thanks for sharing!

i hope someday i can work up to that level of skill. I admire your ability

Love watching how much you get out of clay. I use stoneware and mine get 1/2 your height.

Thanks for sharing.. learning pottery I appreciate tips for tool usage as I try make vases. This vase looks similar Rebecca pitcher which close with handle. Do you ever make those? I haven’t thought about starting narrow cylinder for vase I usually cut it down with tool. You make it look easy😊 would love see it glazed as finished product see glaze brakes.

You are very skilled and your work is very attractive.

Absolutely love your work! I took ceramics in high school and loved it. I was actually a natural at throwing. I was a gold key finalist with 2 of my pieces. We had to pass a test to use stoneware and then another test to be able to glaze. I've had a wheel for many years but nowhere near me to get anything fired.

Thats is AMAZING .... I dream af being able to do that some day.

Superb explanation on your technique, each step makes sense. Thanks for lending us your knowledge. I have the incentive to step out of my comfort zone and go taller than 1 ft. !!! Will you be willing to share your glazing process? I love how you blend the colours as shown on the pieces in the intro.

Thanks a lot !

Hi from Japan. I really enjoy your demonstration, but would greatly appreciate it if you would remove the background music. It makes it difficult to concentrate on what you are saying and doing. Thank you.

Boss video mate. !

Gorgeous! I love your technique; thanks for the quite useful commentary; makes me anxious to sit at the wheel! I'm impressed with how clean your clothes remain - a testament to your controlled use of water. Quite an example! I'm new to your channel... what clay body do you use? Thanks for sharing your skill and expertise!

That "Rebecca" is very shapely isn't she :) Who would have believed with what was to arrive not long after you made this video Matt? YES Covid2019. sigh

Thanks so much for taking the time to make this. Really helpful for me! Question, about how thick are the walls before you start shaping?

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Great video. How tall is the vase?

Hi from Texas

Hello I have a question it would be greatly appreciated if you could give some advice. I'm currently trying to figure out what type of clay would be good for t throwing taller pieces with out collapsing. I worked with a moist clay that i found great for tall cylinders but not for shaping. And now im working with sculptural clay with grog for strength but i can't pull up a tall cylinder or when i get it a little tall it collapses in the middle of the cylinder and can't form. I'm a little frustrated. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I am amazed at how long you can pull before your hands and clay get too dry. Is that expertise alone, your clay body choice, or does your climate help? Combination? Here in dry Central California summer temps reach triple digits, and things dry quickly, and I am a slob with water.

I would like to find out how to get more of the weight up from the bottom of the pot. I think I’m doing what’s necessary but after I check the thickness it’s always very close to the same. Inside fingers just above outside fingers or sponge. I make the “wave” and I pull. Somehow it always leaves the bottom of the pot the same thickness after 5 or 6 pulls. Can you help?

Great teaching video.. thank you. Can you say what clay you are using? Grog or no? Tks

Great shape Matt, is your studio/shop in Seagrove?

Sweet pot

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How is white clay prepared please

I'm trying to study how you open so efficiently. I have been experimenting trying to pin down good mechanics and I run into trouble.. I often create a pillar in the center when I try to move the clay to the outside w my thumb. Then I end up in this back and forth situation pushing clay from middle to outside but the bottom doesn't get thinner. Oftentimes I have to actually use the back of my thumb and trace from outside to inside and it removes clay which gets wasted. It looks like you are using a good portion of your thumb and you keep pressure to the center bottom so that doesn't happen. Am I seeing this right? :) Thanks for the vids Matthew, you are awesome.

What's the cost for one.

Hello Matt, I took pottery for four years in high school (all throwing), and then 5 in college. At the end of my college days I was really good. Then do to work I have not thrown for 20 years. I finally started again and I watch a lot of tour videos. Which when I was in college lol internet didn’t really exist (well it was 1999). Anyway I was surprised to see that I had not lost ol much of my skill except! The wheels I used had 12 inch bats and sadly as yard as I tried to find a 12 inch wheel, I could only find a 9.8, and it’s bat less which sucks. So after I throw I cut them and wait 30 min then try and slide them off with a wire under them. But it doesn’t always work and I have ruined pieces. So how do you get them off easily each time? The other problem is I know I use too much water and of course that’s causes taller pieces issues. So how can I throw drier, my fingers if not wet just grip the clay like glue. I have been trying the 1 pound cylinders but still can’t get above 7 inches. I have issues throwing small pieces but not large, (think my brain is damaged)? Any ideas?

Question... I find when I pull my clay wants to expand so I have to collor my clay back in. Any advice on how to keep a good, straight cylinder?

Thank you for sharing your expertise. Pity that the music prevents me from fully catching what you're saying.

How much clay?

Am having issues with glaze over here I'm Nigeria

Please I want to be your friend please I'm a ceramics student

Love the video, but you really have to kill the music. You almost lost me with whatever that was in the 3rd minute