Not sure why I watched all the other videos before I found yours!!! Thank You so much for truly doing a STEP by STEP. Not inky that but over and over. Perfect man!!

This is, by far, the most explanatory video out there. Thank you so very much for sharing your knowledge. You rock.

I actually learned centering from this video, not my teacher. I’m now the only one in my course that can center every size of clay up to 4 kilos...every time. I’m secretly teaching the others 🤫

Such a clear, informative and well paced instructional video. I appreciate your ability to clearly convey the concept using examples without extraneous information. You are a great teacher Thanks

Fantastic. The two color clay really brought it home for me. 'Gotta see it... thanks for that!

My husband and I just started taking pottery lessons and you are awesome. I plan on showing our instructor how to do it! Thank you!

Love the color contrast--that made it so clear!! Thanks!

Been throwing for awhile & this is the most helpful thing i’ve seen & heard & the parts that i am still having a tough time with!! Thank you SO MUCH FOR putting this on you tube!!!

Stellar teacher. Makes all the difference. Thank you

This REALLY helped me understand the purpose of centering- best video on this yet! Thank you :)

I have learnt more and better from watching your videos than going to in person classes ( paid ) !!!

Thank you very much! now i understand the purpose of thorough centering much better.

Wonderful instructions! I am learning a lot from your videos. Thank you so much for making and sharing!

Thankyou for your videos, I've been struggling with centering , off to my she shed to try again using this method.

Brilliant! Thank you!

I like the method how you open the piece with your fingers on the slant and return back to center. Shall have to try that! That is a technique I have not seen before.

You're such a cool teacher! Also I love your cat pictures, it adds a whole cozy atmosphere to your videos :3

Brilliantly explained.. thank you!

Thanks for such a wonderfully helpful video!

Very cool video and explanation!!

Super helpful, thank you brother

I just recently started a class and I am so eager to try these methods. And why am I picturing Chris Pratt as pottery teacher? Thanks for sharing this stuff!

Thank you. great video!

Thanks for the great explanation, it was really interesting! I hope you get paid good money for teaching your skills to others!

your video is very useful for me, and the example is very clear to understand.

11:49 Me when I write my thesis and start making up words to reach the minimum word count.

Thank you tim😃

Wow!

wow that was awesome

this almost makes sense.... so new but loving this info

It looks like the first lump got 5 rings of mixed up clay vs the second lump got 14 ish because you coned up more times during the second lump. So how many times of coning up is 'enough' for the purpose of homogenisation? Or is it just that if we cone then the clay would be easier to work with [versus not coning up and go straight from wedged clay on wheel to centering/pulling up without coning?]

So cool thank u

Nice experiments

so when you're using friction to swirl the clay more, are you still leaning to clay to one direction to prevent the mushroom shape? Thank you so much, these videos are amazing!

Yes homogenization is a word! We use it a lot in biochemistry and cell biology lab work.

You cone much less high than I have been. Since I have stubby childlike fingers, is it still possible for me to cone up high enough to be effective and still get my cone down hand up over the top of the cone without losing contact with my wheel head hand? It starts to feel like I am not getting anywhere very fast with bigger small balls of clay as I can only go up a wee bit before running out of reach. If I can only cone up a half inch or inch, is that doing anything? Does that mean I need to do it twice as many times as a person with long fingers? Thanks!

So the second way of coning the clay is more a way to actually "stir" the clay?

I have a question, recently I got an interest in pottery, and I want to make some pottery. So I bought some tools, clay and a wheel. But the wheel is a non electric one. Is it still possible to make pottery with out a self rotating wheel?

Hey Tim.....how much clay can be centered using this technique? Seems at some point the ball of clay would be too big to leave your hands on the bat. Thank you for doing this!

Can you reuse the clay once it's been mixed?

When I do this my cone breaks lmao

I tried the centering and just got too much skirt. Your method seemed much more arduous because I have smaller hands.

Aren't orange cats the best?

Orange Kitty

did you just meow lmao

Is it lame that I’m using my footstool to practice??? 😂 I don’t have a wheel yet…