This video shows how to make a 18 inch tall, straight-walled vase by throwing a base and then adding coils of clay Then, after joining the coils, the vase is thrown, shaped, and cleaned up.

For this video, I started with an 8 pound base and I had three additional coils that weighed 4 pounds each. These coils were wedged, rolled out, and made into a circle prior to sitting down at the wheel.

This video is about 30 minutes of throwing at the wheel condensed into 9 minutes.

This is one of my favorite ways of making larger vessels on the pottery wheel. This technique can be modified to suit your needs—start with any amount of clay to form your base, and then build from there. You can use this way of building to get more clay on the wheel, and then shape the vessel however you want.

Have fun trying this out and thanks for watching.


Timecodes:
00:24 Centering and opening the 8 pound base
01:28 Adding coil #1
02:03 Adding coil #2
02:36 Adding coil #3
03:15 Pulling the walls
04:12 Standing pulls for more leverage
06:17 Removing slip and shaping with ribs
07:09 Trimming excess clay from lower half of vase
08:00 Final shaping and adjustments

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