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My Pottery Keeps Coming Out Lopsided — Spinning Pots

Terry Connor
8 min readSep 4, 2020

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While working with pottery, several troubles show up to ruin the situation and your efforts. Starting from throwing the clay onto the pottery wheel to ending up firing the clay inside the kiln, you may face problems at any time. So, to prevent the issues, you need to be careful and attentive enough in every step you take while making a pottery piece. No matter whatever the ingredients you might be using, if the process of implementation is not appropriate, then it will ruin your entire project.

Pottery making is skill-based work. The more you practice it, the higher the chances of achieving perfection in the job. However, for that, you need to learn and practice each step correctly. While making a pot, you might face many problems like decentering of the clay, asymmetric pottery body, or even your pottery might become lopsided. Though it’s quite frustrating to face such issues, there are specific ways in which you can fix them. In this article, we are going to tell you the solutions on how to prevent pottery from getting lopsided every time.

Problems that occur, when your pottery gets lopsided:

While working on a potter’s wheel, if you follow an incorrect technique, the wall formation of your pot might be wrong. It might turn out to be uneven or crooked. No matter how…

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Terry Connor
Terry Connor

Written by Terry Connor

I'm someone who is always looking to improve my life and others. Looking to be a better person spiritually and financially. Plus I love pottery and Cats.

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