I've now started the habit of pulling 2-4 handles for each mug. That way, if I screwed up the first handle, I already have backup. Alternatively, I can pick the best of the handles I pulled for that mug and attach it.

@EarthNationCeramics

5 жыл бұрын

Potter tip ^

@adamhanson5565

4 жыл бұрын

My method is similar, count the number of mugs that I'm going to be trimming, then pull handles for around 1.5x the number of mugs I'll need.

I like how you explain everything like I'm 5 years old, that's exactly what I needed

You can't convince me this isn't Ryan Reynolds voicing these videos because your comedic timing and intonation is spot on lol i love these videos and tutorials!! I've learned so much, thank you

After 16 years as a beginner of making mugs you have caused me to like making them. I hate handles. I will be 87 this November 18th.

The production value of your video's are nearly as good as your pottery. You sir, deserve many subs.

@EarthNationCeramics

5 жыл бұрын

Bro, I try

as always my favorite teacher! thank you so much!

Great tips, also thank you for explaining so everyone can understand. Being able to see different potters perspective is awesome. Man this love being a potter.

Rewound to @4:13 about ten times for a solid laugh.. well.. ten solid laughs. You are appreciated good sir.

You are, by far, my favorite potter on the KZread’s. Love the instruction, thank you so much!!!!

You’re a really, really good explainer and I wish I had stumbled upon your vids when I first started. I feel like I’m relearning everything - thanks for keeping it so simple and clear.

This is the best handle pulling demo I’ve seen and I’ve watched A LOT 😍

Thank you Donte for this collection of beginner videos, they have all been very helpful to me 🇬🇧

I’ve had several classes and your explanations are so much more clear. I never knew to use a paintbrush for cleanup, great tip!

I have been struggling for a while and it was like you knew what I needed today. I realized two things I was doing wrong after watching your video today. Thank you so much, huge fan!

Thank you Donte you are my Pottery Teacher! and you are Awesome!

Hey I just found your channel the other day and its AWESOME! I bought a kiln a while back and actually stopped doing pottery for a while because the first "good" creation I made got destroyed in my, now deceased, grandma's manual kiln. I just watched your two videos on using the skut kiln and applied the methodology to mine. Today I did my first successful bisque firing and painted some glaze on the piece. My kiln is now set on high for glazing and I am about to go to bed! I look forward to learning more techniques from you in the future, thanks for all the dedication to this craft and for sharing tips on youtube. Take care - Riley

I need this man as my teacher. He's friggin funny.

Such a great video, thank you. I have been having problems with attaching my handles, I think the mugs have been too dry. Watching this vid I had a real light bulb moment. I like the towel idea too.

I love out-of-the-box handles. They really give the mug more personality. Back when I took my first ceramics class, we had to pull 100 handles before we did mugs. It sucked at the time, but I appreciated it when I could pull nicer handles. (still not my favorite thing to do though)

Your two best tips IMO, start with a piece of clay the right size to make just one handle, rather than pulling multiple handles from a larger piece, and decide where to cut the ends by holding the pulled handle behind the cup. Thank you, hadn’t figured those out for myself yet.

Fantastic!

I love every of your videos, they are not too long, never

Wow I didn't know there were such handles as the ones you made where one is really really curled up like that and another looks like a hair clip that looks so so amazing man spot on job dude!

awesome rant... awesome video as always.. thanks

You crack me up. Thanks for the video, I will be trying the "carrot" method for my handles today!

Great tips. Extruded handles work great also all of the handles are more uniform and lets face it easier to apply. I also use a torch on most of my pottery no cracking and i can bisque fire in one or 2 days with out issues. ~ Big G Pottery

Earth nation is so w😊ell instructional. Many thanks.

Donte, do a cheap pottery wheel test. They make toy kits for kids ($20)

@EarthNationCeramics

5 жыл бұрын

If enough people ask, I might.

@dahliapinwheel4704

5 жыл бұрын

Earth Nation Ceramics awesome! :)

@MaskMastic

4 жыл бұрын

OMG YES THAT WOULD HONESTLY BE PRETTY FUNNY

@anushabakshi6116

4 жыл бұрын

Yess please

@scenepool

3 жыл бұрын

maybe the chinese ones; they can be hit or miss but they do work.

NIce video Donta good potter tips as always.

Great job!

Aha YESSSSSS i just watched a Q and A where he said that!! He sounds like the kind of cook I am hehehe!

thank you....super helpful

Great 👍 really thorough

Thanks for the tips ;)

Appreciate the handle crafting! Work at an art studio, started getting into pottery and I’m so bad at handles that my boss told me she was going to invest in a form 😅 oops.. short story I appreciate your video haha!! Oh boi

Wow I’m early. I’m excited for this video even though I haven’t even started yet

Little, little time, big, big time. 👌

@EarthNationCeramics

5 жыл бұрын

This one gets it

thank you very much, nice lesson !! peace :))))))))

Wow I've never even seen a mug that hug at 3:09 that's pretty crazy stuff man!!

Wow... the way my teacher never mentioned anything about letting the handles dry a little before attaching them 🤦🏻‍♀️ this seems so obvious as I’m typing it but as a beginner until this video I felt so frustrated with this process! Thank you so much for making these amazing videos. 🥺

@jaimegiglio2301

2 жыл бұрын

A question I have is how long do you let the handle dry and mug dry before attaching?

@vikio452

Жыл бұрын

@@jaimegiglio2301 just until the surface isn't sticky, and the handle and mug can hold their shape a bit when you press on them. You don't want to create a squishy mess.

Timid Dante I use a map gas torch for all my pots to trim in 3 to 5 minutes

Note to those who do make and sell mugs: *Please* make at least some of your mug handles large enough into which four fingers will fit *comfortably.* 2.25" to 2.5" on the inside, and more of a square shaped handle, would be great. This type of handle makes it so much more pleasant and comfortable to hold the mug. Thank you from a handcrafted mug lover.

@EarthNationCeramics

5 жыл бұрын

This is a fair note. I will be making a "different handles" video soon.

Your videos are so helpful

@EarthNationCeramics

3 жыл бұрын

I try

@miawatkins1370

3 жыл бұрын

@@EarthNationCeramics ya I’m in 9th grade and for my ceramics class i have decided to give mugs a shot and your videos are very good guides

"Petting a cat" is not where my dirty potter mind is going.

I make my mugs different by making four little (0.5 oz) balls of clay and sticking them on the bottoms and smushing them a little bit to make a little bit flat. This was born out of being too lazy to trim so many bottoms but everyone loved them so much (said they were "so cute") that I just still do it.

@marthagSC

5 жыл бұрын

chupablahblah interesting idea!

@John_Weiss

5 жыл бұрын

Try using only 3. Tripods are more stable than 4-leggers.

@chupablahblah

5 жыл бұрын

@@John_Weiss thank you I will try that when I get back to it!

I did it, I understood the touch needed and I dit it. Every other time I would break it thinking I was ‘milking’ the clay “Like petting a cat” made sense. Now I just have to successfully make a mug and I’ll have somewhere for my handle Lol

🙃😀😀😀 Thank you!

Thanks... handles are a stress factor for me. Never know how to gauge dryness of the cup and handle.

Invest in a clay gun its easier to extrude handles then to pull every handle every time you cab also pull extruded handles its more consistent

I’m addicted to your videos, I wish I could learn from you in person! I have a question about your sponge, what is this? I have never seen a sponge like that and it looks so useful. Greetings from France!

@EarthNationCeramics

2 жыл бұрын

Is a mud tools sponge, they have three different ones. I believe most of them are made from memory foam and they're a lot smoother than most rough sponges

@9:09 walks to kitchen, pours another glass of wine, comes back and presses play again. #50shadesofclay

❤

I wonder what sells better , a pulled and for an extruded handles ?

Simple is better,humbly a beginer.

Support this guy, he takes time for school and work to produce this funny and very educational content. If everyone dropped a little in the hat for him we get to continue to enjoy and learn from his content. www.patreon.com/Earthnationceramics/overview

@EarthNationCeramics

5 жыл бұрын

You a real one :')

Or you can use a torch and dry your mug trim it and put a handle on it in 6 minutes!

Que me podrías recomendar para hacer 1000 handls cada dia

When we are buy this materials to make mugs

Don’t you need to wedge the clay for the handles??

Lol...syke!

👍🙋‍♂️

Also at 7:08, on your wheel, it looks a lot like Mickey Mouse lol!!

Oh look! He is MILKING A COW!!! (pulling the carrot) LOL you're welcome

Could you say... it’s four scores...? (And seven years ago)

how does a drum machine help anything

Two questions for you - 1. How much clay do you use for your mugs? 2. How tall are your cylinders for mugs before you fire them?

@EarthNationCeramics

3 жыл бұрын

I don't have a standard size for how much clay I use. I usually go by feel; as this video is a little older my mugs are much larger now. as far as the shrinkage rate goes this Clay is BMiX so it shrinks in between 10 and 12%. Which of course is dependent on the size of the mug as I do not have a standard size for my mugs. I'm not a productionist, I'm an artist.

@michaelhigbe9443

3 жыл бұрын

Earth Nation Ceramics I asked because I just started using B mix and I usually throw to “as tall as I can-ish” which so far has been about 5.5 to six but I really didn’t count on the shrinking. Thanks for the tips esp. your candid glaze info. M

big thing take big time dry = big brain words

Omg the sexual overtones lol

@chrispya1

2 жыл бұрын

I'm thinking this could go on p**nhub.

Is it just me or is pulling handles really easy?

@Kyle-du7rb

4 жыл бұрын

It’s just you

I’m starting to get worried about you. Every vid I’ve seen, you have wounds in yr hands. How? :-|

@meganburak7297

5 жыл бұрын

His day job is as a cook/chef - he got a bad burn a while back and you might just be seeing some of the scars that are still healing

@EarthNationCeramics

5 жыл бұрын

My scars are little love notes to my subscribers

@isaaclara2485

5 жыл бұрын

Daddy I love how you use your hands to please us 😫😫😫😫

@nowirehangers2815

3 жыл бұрын

@@isaaclara2485 no

Then title this handles for beginners. And make it 1:30 long.

@nowirehangers2815

3 жыл бұрын

No

Same dryness? Sorry, but that is absolute nonsense. Do you need to dry things slowly if it isn't the case? Yes. Should you anyway to ensure the attachment point holds? Also yes.