25 pound Stoneware Jar

[@ErikWilliams-i4n]

I would love to throw some clay with you!!!!your so awesome 😎👍!!!!thanks for the great tips that Whitford pottery dude is unreal!!!❤😊🎉

[@CharlesKratz]

Guy, what a gas it is to watch you throw a pot again! The ease and speed with which you create something of great beauty still reminds me of the film of Picasso rapidly painting nymphs and satyrs on a sheet of glass. When are you gonna get back out to join us for a few tunes on a Monday night at Sally's? Charles (seed)

[@guywolff]

I started my apprenticeships in 1966 when I was 16 . Its been a wonderful life . All the best , Guy

[@94gdl]

What a pleasure seeing an artist working on their craft with so much commentary to explain it to novices such as myself. Kudo's to you and your son Ben.

[@createlovehappy]

Watched this many years ago when it first got posted. Today again, and I could watch again and again. I’ve learned a lot from your videos so thank you for sharing

[@DCuzick]

First time that I have looked at one of your videos, very nicely done. I like the conversation. My wife says that I talk too much when doing a video, now I will refer her to you. Strong work, thanks for posting. A fellow potter.

[@QRS666]

It is a joy to watch you at work, Guywolff! Extremely interesting to hear your wise words while making the pots!

[@henrythompson3991]

I can hear the pot singing. I really enjoy watching you make pots. I appreciate how you pass your knowledge of pottery-making on to others (me for instance) while demonstrating great pottery-making techniques. Thank you!

[@guywolff]

Thanks so much for having a look and I will pass on the hello to my son . Martha is doing a story on Ben in the September issue of her Magazine if you get a chance to see it . All the best and thanks again , Guy

[@guywolff]

Thanks Karolyn for the kind words .. I do love making pots . I started when I was 16 and I'm 58 so thats a good thing !! Today was a batch of 48 , 8 pounders for Monticello in Virginia .. All the best , Guy

[@weeknightingale]

Well done! I really enjoyed this video. Fascinating to watch! Amazing how a lump of clay in your hands can become a beautifully functional and visually pleasing jar.

[@davidbooth5549]

FABULOUS! It is so much fun and so informative to see you work! I have a huge smile every time I watch your potting videos. Beautiful mastery, and I love your aesthetic comments too. Right on!

[@guywolff]

David ! I hope you are sell !

[@zzaga1]

Thanx for sharing. I realy enjoy the way you talk about your pots and how you describe not only the technikal part of throwing but also the estetich part (sorry for the bad spelling).

[@guywolff]

I worked in Potteries in Wales as a young apprentice and at a shop in the north of England as a visiting potter . Later on .. A close family friend moved with her family to Snowlalave near Roskilla ( SP?? ) and I stayed with them in late winter 1971 . Great people . We even played music on Danish TV .. The show was called Milk And Honey .. The saying I remember that was most important was Tack for mall ... Great food .. Very Fun talking Guy

[@guywolff]

Thanks for the kind words David . You live in a beautiful part of the States .I did a demo in Ensenitus at Gardenoligy a few years ago . Wild flying into the middle of town !!! I will go have a look at some of your clips .I do talk a lot and sometimes something good comes of it . Not always but we can give what we can. At any rate if my wife says I talk to much I will refer her to your clips !!! I think we have something here. All the best , Guy

[@guywolff]

I get so much back from the life Im leading and thats why Im sharing it here.. I am a bitt gooffy and I dont worry much how dumb I come across because my passion for and what I get out of pottery and music is bigger then my cool factor . All the very best and thanks for having a look . Yours Guy

[@guywolff]

Thanks for the kind comment . I do ramble on . Sometime coherently and sometimes NOT .

[@threelittlepotters]

Just amazing! So happy to find your channel!

[@guywolff]

Thanks for the kind words QRS its always great to hear from you . Guy

[@guywolff]

The year Hammel & Galespy said they were stopping mining I bought 2 tons so Im good thanks .. Every thing I do comes back to Albany slip in some way .. I wish I had done the same with Banard clay .. I love Tomba glazes as well and Barnard is wonderful . All the best , guy

[@guywolff]

Hello fmlangford. I have never turned the bottoms of the flowerpots. Everything is Fettled the second day and signed and dated.I do re-throw Chinese style noodle bowls.(I like moving clay more then cutting it .)Pans (or lower shapes ) are sometimes glazed for forcing bulbs but mostly just on the inside. I glaze mugs and bowls and pitchers . Crockery I glaze everywhere but the rims so they can be stacked rim to rim it glaze firings. Less shelving = more money in the kiln!!. All the best , Guy

[@guywolff]

Nathan thanks for the kind words. I love making pots and I started at your age .. Its been a great life ... YOurs Guy

[@guywolff]

Thanks for the kind words . I wish i had brought the movie camera with me to the dragon kiln in Southern China last week . What beautiful pots were made !!! All the best , Guy

[@guywolff]

Thanks for the very kind words.. All the best , Guy

[@guywolff]

Great to hear from you Charles !! Smith and Hawken are very friendly this year so they may ask for a visit . If they do you will be the first to hear of it !!! If you look at my thread on mudcat you will find a link to the TV show I just did with Martha S . We played banjo at the end .. Very fun .. More soon your friend , Guy

[@james87106]

That was awesome to watch. What a gorgeous form.

[@guywolff]

As you get past your first 100 tons of throwing clay you really dont worry an awful lot about a wabble here or there on the way to a finished pot. Its knowing where the pot is going and allowing it to get there. There is a difference in moving clay quickly with some wabbleing and a pot being out of center. This is what makes throwing so much fun even after 40 years or more . Clay out of center comes from not giving the material the same command for a full rotation . All the best , Guy

[@erikwilliams8703]

Wow you make it look so easy:)!thanks for the tips

[@guywolff]

I have three 10 cu ft Electric Kilns in the new shop and a 150 cu ft salt kiln ( six ft dome kiln ) ( gass and wood ) at the old shop. I also have a 50 cu FT 4X4 ft Sprung arch fast fire gas at the old shop .. Cone ten 2500 F or is it 1300 C ?? It was Martha Stewart who gave Oprah Winfree the pots .. Have you heard of either of them in Sweden .. 10 years ago and its still amazes me .. All the best , Guy

[@guywolff]

Using less water means more torque. As the pot gets further along a bit more fenness is called for . Sometimes more lubricant but always getting the material in a compressed line . All the best , Guy

[@thekidvid]

Hey Guy, Great example of throwing a large form. Very informative. I've been throwing for 7 years and I'd like to try a bird bath. I have a couple of questions for you. If you were to make a base for a 28 to 30 inch high bird bath, how many pounds of clay would you use? Based on some trial and error (mostly error), I'm starting to wonder if I shouldn't be using more than one bag of clay. Also, how thick would you shoot for the walls?

[@guywolff]

I have no Swedish so I must say you have done much better then I could !!! Tak or is it Tauck ??? All the best Guy Years ago I did play for a week or two in a Rock and roll band in Copenhagen named Dr DOPO-JAM .. Lots of very nice people but a little south of you and a country away.

[@guywolff]

I think you mean the ones they unloaded into the sand with a point . Most bigger medateranian pots were and are made in sections .. If you trow the top sections first you can throw the last section upside down and brinf the clay to a point . The joinery is finished upside down .. All the best , Guy

[@guywolff]

Yes I make 25 tons (50,000 pounds) of flowerpots a year and something like three tons (6000 pounds)of glazed-wares in the same time.I like to make flowerpots for historic houses and museums.Mostly wholesale and some local retail. I also have trained some potters in other shops to make pots for a few interesting American companies.A friend who has a national TV show and Magazine gave another TV star some of my pots for Christmas in front of 10 million Americans.My life has never been the same.

[@guywolff]

@thekidvid I would try the pillor base with 36 to 45 pounds to start with . The bowl mayby 20 pounds .. Good luck and all the best , Guy

[@adlesk54]

That was very cool... I cant imagine working with that much clay. do you trim these pots? Thanks for sharing. Sue

[@UDUMBARA_Helsinki]

Thank you!

[@guywolff]

This pot was finally fired at cone 10 here in Bantam September 16 th 2018 !

[@zzaga1]

I'm impressed you how to say thankyou (almost) it´s "tack". Copenhagen is actualy quite close to wher I live. It taks about one houer by car to Copenhagen from here. Have you visited europe alot?

[@guywolff]

Thanks so much , Yours Guy

[@pensandcalls]

excellent pot AND video.

[@createniks]

Guy when you're using your large rib are you holding it at a 90° angle to the pot or are you feathering it a bit of an angle so the clay slides past on the side of the rib and not just the edge?

[@guywolff]

@SwGkentuckyC What a very nice thing to say !!! Thanks that is exactly the inspiration !!! Yours Guy

[@guywolff]

@Earthworkr With a power -lift I am using the side of my knuckle on the inside and its as if you are turning the walls inside out.There is as much power pushing the clay infront of the lift as that lift itself.The farther apart that inside pushing out and the exterior pushing in the for more clay will be moved. Keep your hands 6 inches apart and see how much material you move! When people stop thinking and just do what ive asked they start screaming at how much matterial is moving up the wall

[@winonabannon7953]

I have to try this method! I usually work with porcelain and sometimes stoneware. I have trouble getting it much higher then about 1 1/2 '. I do use the knuckle on the outside, but I have never thought about using it in the inside. Great video! Thanks!

[@zzaga1]

Oh, wales is very nice. Ah, Roskilde is nice to. He he.. Tack för maten (in swedich) Tack fo maden in danish:) Do you work full time with pottery?

[@guywolff]

The way my eyes work; I did not even notice the bump near the top of the pot . Funny . When I pushed down on the top the whole wall down to the domed waist gets a kind of architectural compression and a great natural domeing just under the rim /..

[@AJohnson0325]

I'm wondering if you do any workshops or training for people looking to improve their technique with larger amounts of clay. I'm very impressed. Thanks!

[@guywolff]

I do one workshop weekend a year in the Fall out at Castle Hill center for the arts in Truro Mass .. All the best , Guy

[@AJohnson0325]

Thanks!

[@rapidac]

Absolutey great response. Sounds like Erich might actually "like this stuff."

[@guywolff]

Trimming is a great thing to do if the shape asks for it. This pot will have a beveling "fettling" but not really much of anything besides making sure the pot dose not have any sharp bits .. All the best , Guy

[@guywolff]

The question is far from dumb . How the inside hand pivots makes huge differences in "subtext" to the line of the pot . Making an arch the inside hand is to the top of the rib .A straight the hand is in the middle and a dome the the inside hand is low . Making a straight and holding the inside like a dome will make a domed straight line . Sub text and story come from these combinations ! All the best . I have to put all this in a book sometime . Thanks for the great question ,yours Guy

[@zzaga1]

Oh, 25 tons is alot!! Sounds fun making fowerpots with historical connections. How do you fier? Gas? electric? wood? He he he, seams like you´v got some pots to throw sins that christmast gift for the tv star:)

[@guywolff]

No one spells worse then I do .. Thanks for the kind words... All the best , Guy

[@paulauksztulewicz4803]

Amazing!

[@peterstevens4223]

G00D Afternoon from Auckland, New Zealand it’s Tuesday, May 26, 2020.

[@zzaga1]

He he. I'm stil amazed that you can understan what I'm writing:)

[@guywolff]

Hey thanks . My wife and children ask me not to make jokes "before Noon"so the verdict isint in on the humor thing. Thanks though for the friendly thoughts , Yours Guy

[@dvolkmann6036]

Pottery police! Love it!