Guides & calculators
Notes from the studio — mostly the stuff I had to work out the hard way, and the numbers behind getting a pot to come out the size you actually wanted.
What potters asked for, and what changed
Most of what the Studio does now came from someone using it and saying what was missing. This is a list of those requests and what was done about them, so you can see whether it…
3D printing a throwing rib for your own mug profile
A rib cut to your exact profile lets you throw the same shape again and again. The one thing that catches people out is size: the rib has to match the wet pot, not the finished …
How much clay for a mug?
"How long is a rope". It all depends, but a rough guide is about 250 g of wet stoneware if you throw thin, around 345 g while you are still learning. If your bottom is too thick…
Clay shrinkage: what size do I throw?
Divide the size you want by one minus your shrinkage rate. For an 80 mm rim in a clay that shrinks 12%, throw it at 91 mm.
All of this is built into the Studio
Draw your pot, and it does the shrinkage, the clay weight and the capacity for you — then prints you a 1:1 drawing to throw against. Free, no signup, runs in your browser.
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