Open and Pull your Walls Made Easy || Dig, Open, Pull Series Part 2 of 3

Welcome to the second part of a three-part series on beginner-friendly wheel throwing techniques. This series covers digging a well, opening it, and pulling your walls. Part 2 covers a beginner-friendly method for opening your well and executing the initial pulls to raise your clay walls on the pottery wheel without losing center. Discover a modified hand technique at midnight for controlled opening and a squeezing-pulling motion for vertical pulls. The opening and pulling techniques covered in this video were developed and adapted after teaching thousands of students with great success. I hope you enjoy this video, and please subscribe and comment if you would like to see more pottery wheel tutorials! ▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 0:00 - Introduction 0:45 - Opening Well Overview 2:20 - Opening Well 3:19 - Set your Inside Corner 4:00 - How to dig your well deeper after opening 5:10 - Pulling Walls Overview 7:25 - Pulling Walls 1st Pass 8:30 - Compress Cylinder 9:20 - Pulling Walls 2nd Pass 10:20 - Pulling Walls 3rd Pass Check out other Wheel Throwing Tutorials here:    • Wheel Throwing for Beginners   #pottery #ceramics #wheelthrowing #openingthewell #pullingwalls #potterytechniques #centeringclay #clayart #handmade #learntopottery #throwingclay #beginnerspottery