People's Master of Belarus Dmitry Viktorovich Polyshchuk traveled many cities and weights with their "festival" pottery - very mobile due to the analysis of the main parts of the tree. Gonchar's clay products pleased with very many of their beauty and functionality.
We have long become an axiom of the proverb that the gods do not burn the pots, it means that the poter machine itself is quite realistic to make it yourself.Potter's wheel
It consists of a bed with a table (which serves simultaneously and bench), axes, flywheel, work disk. The dimensions of the components are arbitrary, but they certainly need to be customized under their growth. The main thing - the working disk should be at the loan level (when you are in the sitting position) and at the same time not very high so that your hands are not tired.
Flywheel knocking out of thick boards, which are then folded in two layers (photo 1) . The axis of the square section is narrowing up (photo 2) , at the desktop level we make a round cross section. At the top and bottom - metal pins (photo 3).
You can get a shop and get to "sculpture", twisting "pedals", that is, a flywheel, which is desirable to drag the cobblestone!
Pottery
To work it is better to take purified from impurities (vacuum) clay.
To kolobok (photo 7) I did not run away from you at the initial stage, with some force throw it into the center of the disk - this is the installation and centering of the lump. Crush hands (photo 8).
For better sliding splashing clay water and turn a bun in the gallery dome (photo 9) . Thumb to the clay on top, and the palms from the sides. At the same time, the mass is additionally remembered and the not necessary air bubbles leave.
In the planned dome center when the disc is rotated, we press the thumb, going on.
Then raise the cylinder to the height of the future product (photo 10, 11) . We remember about to need to lubricate with water from the inside, but without stretching the clay. To the fingers of the left hand we press the inner cavity, right - we hold the form when rotating.
We came to the desired height, and then molding pots in several stages. From the inside, slightly squeeze the rounded sides, holding them outside. With the help of a quadrangular wooden knife called "Schina" (Photo 12) "Grow" the neck of the vessel " (photo 13).
Finished product separating from a slice rope or wire (photo 14).
His 2-3 days, and then burn in a pottery oven (today this service provides some art workshops, educational institutions, etc. - approx. Ed.).
If the "formation" of the vessel took place, it means that you can take place as a specialist in pottery craft, says Dmitry Poleshchuk. It remains to learn how to make lids to vessels and master more complex forms of skill.