Hey Everyone, It feels great to make a NEW VIDEO! I have a bunch more tape and will be putting them as soon as I get them edited. It's good to be back.
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@user-kf6bf3st2d4 жыл бұрын
Hi, Timsee. I'm Hitoshi, a Japanese. I've shouted "Help! I can't center " for four months. Your video is the most exciting and useful. Thank you for helping me.
@spaceforthesoul62864 жыл бұрын
How is it going?
@deenanthekemoni98215 жыл бұрын
You need to re title this video: nearly 100 super awesome tips for beginners in less than 10 minutes. Nearly every single thing you say is useful, thanks Tim.
@KatThePuppy8 жыл бұрын
beginners will try to put it back on when no one is looking - exactly what I do in class haha
@nightmaregalxywolf6347 жыл бұрын
KatThePuppy He puts to much water and the drops to on the wheel so it's slipping xD
@jhalsteadable6 жыл бұрын
eunice queliza did you watch the video? It's a how-to-avoid these issues.
@princepss85735 жыл бұрын
& beginner's will freak out about all the clay on the wheel & wipe it off as well as wipe off or throw away the clay
@marixcx4 жыл бұрын
KatThePuppy I do that 💀
@craffte7 жыл бұрын
you. are awesome. If I sin too much in this life, Satan is gonna put me in front of a wheel and make me center. for eternity. this helped so much.
@sarahw.47368 жыл бұрын
SO HELPFUL. I was having good beginner's luck with centering until this week, when I kept getting "volcanoes"...it was a total mystery to me. Thanks for explaining! I'm having trouble keeping my right hand down by the wheel as the left hand cones down....have to keep working on that.
@MichealWeinfurtner8 жыл бұрын
I was given a five days in a class to learn how to make a simple pot in pottery (one of the days was used for wedging.) I was given an introductory CD on how to make a pot, and no further guidance. I had all of the issues you showed here, yet my instructor never had any advice on how to fix it. You have taught me so much more in just 7 minutes. Thank you!
@lolaa56456 жыл бұрын
Honestly, I believe when a teacher can't offer enough guidance to help you grasp a task, it means they aren't confident enough with it themselves. Your teacher, and mine just don't feel confident enough about the wheel to teach it properly. I have learned more in the first few minutes of this video than in my two hour class this week!! That I frickin paid heaps for!! Hahaha And yeah, thanks video maker:)!
@Cate74514 жыл бұрын
gg lax I had to deal with that too. Definitely try to get a different teacher, a refund, file a complaint. Some people just want the money. You have to have done a lot of pottery before you can teach it. Sad.
@triciac1019Ай бұрын
You should get your money back. You should easily have gotten that help if they are experienced. This is a great video.
@mightythor49276 жыл бұрын
This is still one of the best videos I have seen. Whenever I start having trouble with my wheel, I come back to this video, reaffirm my foundation and that usually solves or helps me diagnose what I am doing wrong.
@GardnSavvy8 жыл бұрын
I just learned more in that 7 min video than I did in a whole year with a pottery teacher. Mind you, it was more focused on hand building, but no matter how much I asked to learn the wheel, and was allowed to try, there was zero useful information. I was told centering just gets learned. And yet - 7 mins - I have a clear idea now. THANK YOU! :D
@NicoleMonstah8 жыл бұрын
+Savannah Rozema soo lucky :o I really wanna do hand building but my teacher is making us on the wheel because its harder
@gunjanluthra78157 жыл бұрын
same!!!
@davidv.38566 жыл бұрын
Kneecoal we do both in our school and have the option if we want to do handbuilding or wheel because some people prefer the the wheel more
@Cate74514 жыл бұрын
Savannah Rozema nothing just gets learned. Sure practice is necessary but a demo is needed.
@glondacourtney9816 Жыл бұрын
I completely agree his videos are by far the best
@TerriMcCaul8 жыл бұрын
This is the best instruction video series I've ever seen on pottery on the wheel. I have taken ceramics for three years and have learned so much from the "Help!" series because I get to see all of the mistakes I've made and how to correct them! Thanks so much for making me a much better student and less afraid to experiment.
@Mariede42513 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU - you are DA BEST teacher EVER!!! Your videos are the MOST iinformative of all. I cant say enough of how much I've learned from you, your description of what moves to do and NOT do, etc...I''ve never finished watching your videos without a smile! Thank you again and welcome back! and (as also with me) whatever issues you were facing, may you have learned something or forgotten something from them. GB
@boysandcars8 жыл бұрын
i started my wheel practice recently and your videos are very helpful. i train my skills every day for an hour or so and then in the evening watch your videos again and i'm like "aha! that's where i was doing it wrong!" and then try again the other day and my throwing goes better. now my percantage of successful tries increased from zero to 60%. thank you TimSee! keep doing what you're doing. with love, Inna
@alyssaruberto70648 жыл бұрын
Thank you! This video goes over a variety of common problems with centering and attacks them one by one. This is better than most centering tutorials because usually they just go, "hey, do this, and be stable and stuff." Very good, thanks.
@jademckay-robinson84475 жыл бұрын
Great explanation! So easy to grasp! Thanks 🙏🏽✨ And your personality shines too! 😉
@ELEKTRIKELLENA3 жыл бұрын
10 years later and this video continues to help people :) thank you for this!
@kyrak53407 жыл бұрын
This....this how I learned to center. I do every technique in this video and now i can small cylinders and bowls in a heart beat all because I learned how to center
@dse3160111 жыл бұрын
You are a great teacher. Watching your videos has helped me so much. Thank you
@deborahpaine34434 жыл бұрын
Fantastic, I now understand what has been going wrong for years and why sometimes my centering has worked perfectly and sometimes it has failed massively. Thank you!
@Saresbear10 жыл бұрын
This is so helpful! I've been having trouble centering all week and I think this solved the problem. Thank you!!
@merittthomas10 жыл бұрын
Best centering tutorial on KZfaq. "Mr. Tim" is hilarious, haha! No junior mints, volcanoes, or elephant butts!! xD
@katieabrams685310 жыл бұрын
Ohhh Tim, Beginner wheeler here, taking lessons from a very good artist and production potter, Walked into this about 1 1/2 months ago, already bought a wheel to have at home, I am soooo Hooked on Clay! Challenging yet relaxing, well it will be when I start breathing while I'm pulling up LOL ... You speak my language, Awesome beginner teacher!!!!! THANK YOU FOR THESE VIDEOS!!!!!! many Hugs Katie OH PS: One way I've found to get closer to center, (yeah this is for total I can't see center'ers like me) Before I whack the clay down, I set it dead center and kinda push it enough so that it makes a little mark showing where the clay is sitting, THEN and only then can I whack it close to center.... and for your entertainment the First teacher I had told me you have to THROW the clay on the wheel... soooo beginner brain, literally I stood up and from ohhh 3 ft or so THREW the ball of clay at the wheel.... ya know letting go of the ball, dang thing never hit center LOL Some of us ahemm, me, take things wayyyy to literally ....
@davidmitchell479211 жыл бұрын
I am a first year art teacher in a small school. They haven't had a ceramics program in years. Even though I took ceramics in college it has been years since I have been on the wheel. I mainly wanted to say that your videos are more than just a refresher, they are inspirational. I hope to inspire my H.S. students like you have inspired me. Your videos are so greatly appreciated!
@anitius10113 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much!, I'm so glad I saw your videos before heading up to my ceramics class this morning. I was getting so frustrated with the centerng of the clay and making a cilinder, yesterday I felt like I would never learn to throw and about to quit classes. Thanks to you I have made 1 very decent cilinder. I'm sooo happy!!
@bajmuninder11 жыл бұрын
Its a great video.Few insights can help you so much for a beginner to move on.I attend classes but no one was competent enough to put it the way you did.They kept on finding faults with the positioning of my hands.Thanks a ton.
@natjays10758 жыл бұрын
Thank you - that is the best no nonsense video I've found- great tips!
@Holistic3d8 жыл бұрын
Thank-you thank-you thank-you thank-you. This analytical look at centring was exactly what I needed. I finally was able to centre!!
@thebackwardpointinggodwit8080 Жыл бұрын
Thank you. I was dealing with ramps, volcanoes and mushrooms today and wondering how to fix them, or if they even mattered. You are the only KZfaqr I’ve seen who really deals with these faults.
@sharoncastellanos24087 жыл бұрын
This was a great tutorial in my opinion! I like how you mentioned the mistakes made when centering. Looking forward now to using the wheel!
@tiffannyyyy13 жыл бұрын
Haha your reactions mirrored mine when I screwed up trying to center for the first time. I wish it was as easy to do as it is easy to watch...
@annverawaye60355 жыл бұрын
This was very thorough, helpful, and funny to watch. Thank you!
@Glassfox913 жыл бұрын
Welcome back Tim! Great to see this informative and helpful video.
@novanettle74975 жыл бұрын
This was extremly helpful! There are plenty of videos showing "ah, you just do this and ta-daa now it's a bowl". I'm a beginner, I am bound to make plenty of mistakes and knowing what not to do or how to fix your mistakes is way more helpful to me.
@MsSkyEmpress13 жыл бұрын
Thank you thank you thank you. I learnt to centre on a standing wheel and the technique was just not transferable to a sitting wheel. After watching your technique and after many attempts I have now thrown 6 (you count them) 6 cylinders. I can't wait to get back to the studio again.
@kbb22233 Жыл бұрын
This is so helpful. Thank you, Tim.
@grafkimber9 жыл бұрын
I love your references, gum drop, junior mint......
@anjelash4995 жыл бұрын
“volcanoes don’t work”. Simple, clear, I’ll remember it. Thank you so much!
@jacquipullen84311 жыл бұрын
I am just starting out on the road to pottery and find these vids or films a great help, here in sussex I have only found one course on pottery. a one day course in the whole of the county through the council. So I am trying to teach myself instead.
@catherineobrien63574 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this video! I've been trying to teach myself how to throw from home for the past few weeks and your video perfectly explained exactly what I was doing wrong!
@annagray6491 Жыл бұрын
I’m so glad I saw this! I am a beginner of 3-4 months and have done all of these at some point or other! This video is invaluable! Thank you!
@danielle0mickey8 жыл бұрын
Awesome tips Thank you for this useful video! I am going to take this into the studio next time because I know I've seen a couple of these.
@MsSkyEmpress13 жыл бұрын
Thank you, I have been fighting with my clay for a while now. I learnt to center on a standing wheel and am now sitting so I will give your methods a try.
@anetteth4 жыл бұрын
Every bad example of centering you showed here, I have done! I am totally horrible at this! Thanks for a good laugh (at myself)!
@tammyemanuel50369 жыл бұрын
Thank you! You've given such useful information! Thank you so much!
@59PianoMom8 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting....very helpful!
@theareohbee82585 жыл бұрын
Sharing this with my pottery class mates. Thanks yo. Well done.
@MamereClaire13 жыл бұрын
Thank you, thank you, and thank you again! As always you showed me the cause of a problem I have with throwing. Claire
@Lol-mo7bl5 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! Im in 7th grade and ceramics is my elective for this term. This helped so much because my teacher only gave us a brief explanatio.
@blobster11136 жыл бұрын
WHAT A GOD, all these videos just showing how to center and not actually how to fix mistakes and i find this masterpiece. I SEE YOU HAVE OTHER HELP VIDEOS TOO, i love u ,
@junebakerUK11 жыл бұрын
Hello, I have done all these things and been very disappointed, now I can see how to correct them I am excited to start again. Thank you so much for sharing. June
@mversantvoort Жыл бұрын
So much useful information in this to the point video, awesome, thanks!
@tuwlaets4 жыл бұрын
thank you for your humor and your skill.
@judefitzsimons62198 жыл бұрын
This is a great video for beginners. Wish I had seen it when I started...although it will help me no matter what! Thanks
@ELAdams-ERIN5 жыл бұрын
This is the most entertaining one i've seen yet , i dig your sense of humor 😄
@emeraldile12 жыл бұрын
Just went back to see a few of your videos again. I am really happy to see this particular one, as I continue be become baffled by some of the common throwing errors that still come up. I know I will come back to it again and again, until I get it right.
@sk8fux112 жыл бұрын
Subscribed.....I'm new at this...."wife is teaching me" but she is refreshing also ....just got a wheel/kiln .....this video helps alot ... keep up the good work
@mytub3ful3 жыл бұрын
Great to see you know the correct way to attach splash pans. Large section in front.
@JosephDR13 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Tim. This is just what I needed to see.
@ubiglug13 жыл бұрын
I JUST went to your Facebook page today to see what the heck happened to you. You've been missed here on You Tube. You're so talenented, both as a potter and as a clear and engaging teacher. I always pick up something useful from your videos. Thanks again. Rick
@annverawaye60355 жыл бұрын
You’re such an entertaining pottery teacher 😂😂😂
@mrshernandez0711 жыл бұрын
Omg this is exactly what I was looking for! Im excited to go to class tomorrow and use what you showed. Thank you sooooo much
@CeeJayKay3 жыл бұрын
Thanks! I needed that!!! I am saving this video for sure so I can watch it as many times as it takes til I do it right!! : )
@evewingful12 жыл бұрын
I just got one. The video really helped! Thank you for covering the basics for us! :)
@zuhu92225 жыл бұрын
I just love playing with soil, clay and the smell is heavenly!! ❤️❤️🤗🤗
@ayymiiiee7 жыл бұрын
this video saves lives. thank you!
@cy89036 жыл бұрын
funny as heck, and great advice! thank you
@waloam76 жыл бұрын
Wonderful presentation! I don't know though if it will help me on my next lesson, but I will try.
@hobbypotter13 жыл бұрын
So glad to see you back, thanks for the new video!!! I'll be watching :) !!!
@richardmorris86007 жыл бұрын
Great Video. May also help to comment that you are using the wheeel at high speed. Discovering this helped me a lot.
@pirti10083 ай бұрын
Thank you 😁 great instructions ❤
@Sshackles9 жыл бұрын
Wow thank you for this video, it has helped me a lot, especially with my pieces slip sliding away
@davidannett33226 жыл бұрын
Wow thanks so much for the detailed tutorial!
@multipletanksyndrome5 жыл бұрын
I just got home from my first time using a wheel since I was a kid. I watched a couple of your videos about centering before I went, and I was centering like a pro, right from the get go. At least I thought so. I didn't keep anything, like you said throw it till it breaks. I did that maybe half a dozen times. Next time, maybe I'll have a keeper. Fingers crossed. Thanks for the great lessons.
@timseepots5 жыл бұрын
Adam Brabant glad it helped! Thanks for taking the time to thank me.
@multipletanksyndrome5 жыл бұрын
@@timseepots I ran into several of the issues you talked about in this, and your other one. Your video saved me a lot of frustration I saw other people experiencing. I think my issue with throwing, is not keeping my elbow in my hip, and trying to use my whole hand, not just a couple fingers.
@tabeajo60156 жыл бұрын
Omg I’m suuuch a beginner! Wish I could center it even half as good as you do! And btw i use 1/5th of your speed
@drspod80110 жыл бұрын
I've been throwing for 25+ years and this is the first time I've heard the term "Elephant But". I learned something today!
@majasirol89989 жыл бұрын
thank you, great teacher.
@PsychicDavidJames13 жыл бұрын
Fantastic Demo thanks Tim
@SAKSOON5 жыл бұрын
Omg this is so much better than how my previous professors taught.
@jtcpottery8 жыл бұрын
Awesome explanations! Thank you!
@MaChKuLjA11 жыл бұрын
I just have to commend your video. It is very informative, and entertaining. Helped me a lot. Thank you.
@Theilun4 жыл бұрын
Really informative, thank you so much!
@alegria10113 жыл бұрын
Welcome back! Great video and a huge help!
@WBHkungfu11 жыл бұрын
Throwing is a lot harder than it looks! I kept making "mushrooms" today so thanks for the helpful video!
@GiantParfait4 жыл бұрын
This was so informative. Thank you
@taniagoldbergpottery99532 жыл бұрын
Neither can I! Oh, wait, it’s Tim. He can center in his sleep. On Mars. 🤦🏻♀️😂
@pandaacakes12 жыл бұрын
haha you have super funny commentary! i love your videos!
@OhSurreption8 жыл бұрын
Thanks! This was extremely helpful. :)
@rubian7712 жыл бұрын
Hey, quit spying on me!! ;) Just kidding. Thanks soooo much for this video -- it should help me out a LOT since these are all things that I end up doing every time I sit down to the wheel.
@Alyzabeth0113 жыл бұрын
Cool:) It's very nice to see a new video from you.
@Mariede42512 жыл бұрын
Hi Tim, glad to see you answering some posts recently. I'm (still) having a little trouble centering and I'm thinking that the clay just might be too hard! When I watch your videos (and all the rest out there) I notice the clay looks a heck of a lot softer than what I'm using. Any tips on making the clay just a LITTLE bit softer..and actually, how soft should it be? Could you say poke a finger into it easily? Appreciate any tips you could give. Thanks!
@jslamen13 жыл бұрын
Glad to see you're back!
@mikemorris45484 жыл бұрын
I've been throwing for just a couple of days now, mastered centering just by watching a few other vids and have produced a pretty good piece in an hr and a half. IMPORTANT:- always use a not really a locked but stiff, supporting hand, otherwise it goes off center/centre and it's buggered. Obviously it's good to start with a volcano when you're making any kind of pot, vase, bowl etc.
@timseepots4 жыл бұрын
I’m sure you went and watched the video, the help I can’t series is for people that are struggling with parts of throwing or pottery and I show what can go wrong and how to fix them.
@RikuSilver6 жыл бұрын
Wow this was so helpful! Thank you very much :)
@zukichik0068 жыл бұрын
This is me! Just started about a month ago and I'm so bad at centering, its aggravating!
@CB-ys8jl8 жыл бұрын
From now on I'll be saying in my head "No Junior Mints!!"
@GiedreGSPOTS4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video helped me a lot! 🙏🏼
@credenza113 жыл бұрын
Good to see you back, Tim..
@3DJapan6 жыл бұрын
2:10 In school i was taught to push from one direction, wedging my elbows into my stomach or hips to push with my whole torso. I never had it slip off.
@timseepots6 жыл бұрын
Then ok
@timseepots6 жыл бұрын
See if you had the issue of your clay sliding off that would be the fix.
@Hrdrkinmama4 жыл бұрын
Best video ive seen so far ! Thank you !!!
@ladyofthemasque6 жыл бұрын
I took pottery in college in 1994 and again in 2001; after a 7 year hiatus, a lot of it came right back to me. Now I have a chance to do pottery again after the start of the new year (16+ year hiatus, yeek!), so I'm boning up on all the things I've forgotten or can only half-remember. I vaguely remembered a few tips about centering (specifically the feel of the clay slipping and bulging and mushrooming, lol...whee...), but while my instructor (same guy both times in college) gave tips on how TO center, he didn't exactly give tips on how NOT to center. His tips on fixing bad centering was "cone it 3 times, and if that doesn't work, scrape it off, re-wedge it, and try it again." Your tips, on the other hand, show how things go wrong, and how to fix them. That is exactly the information I was looking for. I know how to center. I remember the feel and the pressure. I did not remember being taught how to fix problems, and that was exactly what I went looking on KZfaq to find. Thank you very much! So, whatever the naysayers below might have snarked, ignore 'em. You have my gratitude for this easy to understand demonstration. People can learn as much--or more!--from learning about mistakes (yours & others) as can be learned from being told how to do things "the right way the first time." You and I both know it's never going to be 100% perfectly right every single time. So I'm putting this video in my learning playlist and rewatching it several times over between now and my upcoming apprenticeship, because I know that GOOD centering means knowing what mistakes to avoid, how to fix them when they inevitably happen, and how to move on. Thank you for demonstrating & sharing!
@timseepots6 жыл бұрын
When a pottery video gets attention and almost 3/4 of a million views, people are going to want to knock it down. I teach throwing weekly and have figured out what helps and what is just taking the paycheck.