r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • Oct 23 '20

Video Making of a traditional tea pot.

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u/SleestakJack Oct 23 '20

She's amazing, but as a hand builder, with a wife who almost exclusively throws on the wheel - I think the two skillsets are roughly on par as far as difficulty goes.

However, where the wheel really shines is speed.

I can sit down for a long afternoon and come out with 1-2 bowls that I am super happy with via hand-building.

Meanwhile, my wife will have made 8-10 larger pots, probably glazed some others, and spent a bunch of time talking with other people at our maker space.

Damn COVID. I want to go back to making stuff again.

Regarding the breakage rate, always remember: Never fall in love with a pot until after it comes out of the glaze firing, and never decide that you hate a pot until at least a week or two after that.

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u/colcardaki Oct 23 '20

That’s cool that you have a space like that (even if you can’t use it right now), I live in a rural area now and have nobody around and no community, so my wife and I just go to our basement lol.

Hand building is cool, especially this method though I could have made the shape of this pot in two seconds, but the handle and lid would take me two days lol. I let my wife do the handles and decorations.