The Ultimate Pottery Handle Pulling Guide

This course demonstrates how to pull and attach clay handles to mugs, covering clay condition, shaping, common errors, and drying methods to help prevent cracks.

Syllabus

- Introduction
- Trimming the mugs and making sure the clay is in the RIGHT condition.
- How soft should the clay that's being pulled be?
- HAND POSITIONS
- How much pressure to use & pulling the blanks
- Segmenting off the individual handle blanks
- The orientation they're attached & the desired cross-section
- Flaring out the end of the blank
- How to attach the blanks to the cups
- How to avoid two common pulling errors
- How to arch the handle down & join it to the body
- Pulling the grooves in the back of the handle
- Don't overwork the clay
- HOW TO DRY THEM PROPERLY
- How to use wax to prevent cracks
- Pulling a handle that's TOO large
- Pulling a handle that's TOO small
- Pulling a successful handle with no edits
- Trimming away smeared clay on the base & rounding the rim.
- Clean up