Pottery Wheels

[seal_clubber]

One of the reasons I love reading Cracked.com each and every day is the beautiful imagery that some of their writers' prose evokes. This came from an article today that was talking about using a pottery wheel to make vases, etc:

... there's a huge part of each of us that sees how easy that looks and thinks, "I could totally do that. I should buy

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[davesbrain]

Oh clubber, you have such a pottery-mouth...

(see what I did there?)

[singofmyself]

heehee!

[seal_clubber]

I see what you did there!

[singofmyself]

I love this! HAHA!

Yeah, it's certainly not simple to center your clay on the wheel to do that. The person in the video makes it all look so easy, too.

All of my pottery took me so damned long to make while I would watch these other people just plop it on the tray and make 2 or 3 pots while I started all over on my first.

[seal_clubber]

You and me both. Or it would start okay, but then pick up the Death Wobble that always heralded the above scenario.

[wraithgirl]

Do you have a URL reference for that Cracked.com quote? I know a couple of potters who would be highly amused...

[seal_clubber]

http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-12-most-strangely-satisfying-videos-internet_p2/

It's entry #4 on that list. :-)

[wraithgirl]

Thanks!