I have already been using my new tools and they work great as you will see in upcoming videos. My other favorite homemade tool is the puki which you can learn about here kzitem.info/news/bejne/0p2cn2mDrpOchag
@whitetopmountainlaurelchil3541
2 жыл бұрын
I have a punk or bowl base.
@marciacunningham5877
2 жыл бұрын
I enjoy your videos. As a 40 year experience wood worker, I would suggest to folks to use great caution while drilling into the end of a stick. The bit could slide off and into your hand. Also, the wood can split allowing the bit to hit your hand. IF you have a drill press, which I'm sure most people don't, that is the safe way to do this. Thanks, Michael
@AncientPottery
2 жыл бұрын
Ha, well I am no example for woodworking anything, least of all safety. I think though in any endeavor a little care goes a long way towards keeping you safe.
@seanfaherty
Жыл бұрын
I used handmade tools until my wife got me a tool kit for Christmas. Some of them are very nice but I still reach for the home made ones. You’re still the best diy pottery teacher on the youtubes
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Awesome, thanks
@Rad_Dan
2 жыл бұрын
Throughout school, I had always taken pottery electives whenever they were available. I’m now 27, and I didn’t think I had access to a kiln, and I didn’t know some pottery could be fired without one. Finding your channel has taught me that I can just make my own, which re-enables me to get back to a creative hobby that I love. Thank you
@AncientPottery
2 жыл бұрын
You're welcome and thanks!
@slotho122
2 жыл бұрын
I used to teach children about where tools came from and why we used them with clay. This would be such a good resource for that class.
@AncientPottery
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you
@MWTravesty
2 жыл бұрын
I just want to say that a couple days I saw one of your videos for the first time, and then yesterday I dug a hole in my yard and collected a huge pile of the orange clay that I keep seeing whenever I work on the landscaping. Ever since I first found the stuff, I've wanted to do something with it but didn't know how to start. Now, after watching your video, I'm going to sift and mix clay and sand from my yard and then fire them in my backyard firepit. I was so hesitant to even try doing anything with the clay because for some reason it never occurred to me that people have been making ceramics for thousands of years before kilns ever existed, so you don't actually need one. Thanks for giving me the practical knowledge I needed to get started on a new hobby!
@AncientPottery
2 жыл бұрын
You are welcome, glad to provide some inspiration.
@karenbearden6198
2 жыл бұрын
Those tools look so cool! Really gives us something to think about, how the ancients did necessarily make their own tools! Thanks for making these videos, great stuff.
@AncientPottery
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks I’m glad you enjoyed it
@phylismaddox4880
2 жыл бұрын
Gloves and needle nosed pliers will make thorn gathering a lot less pokey.
@AncientPottery
2 жыл бұрын
Yes but also less exciting.
@stauffap
2 жыл бұрын
Instead of hot glue one can also use spruce or pine resin mixed with charcoal dust and fibres. To make it more flexible one can add oil or fat. There are a ton of videos on youtube that show how to make and use this stuff.
@AncientPottery
2 жыл бұрын
Yes, there are lots of options for natural glue. The method I chose was for maximum accessibility.
@Makete100
2 жыл бұрын
Great tips and video. I always would rather make my own stuff instead of buying them. Thank you.
@AncientPottery
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@glasgavlen
2 жыл бұрын
Very helpful! Thanks Andy!
@AncientPottery
2 жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
@petrapetrakoliou8979
2 жыл бұрын
If you go to beaches in Greece, choose the rocky ones and you have a chance to find adequate pebbles for burnishing pots every 5 min, and really good ones every 30 min. Choose the ones made of harder stone such as quartz unless you want the stone to rub its colour onto the pot. They just get better by using them. In places without nice smooth pebbles the use will make them smoother with time. I found an ancient burnishing stone among prehistoric ceramics made of quite inadequate porous stone which has been worn down and smoothed on its faces by the action of using it, in a place in Hungary where there is limited access to stones - there is only sand and clay everywhere. In those places burnishing stones were surely pssed on from one pot maker to the other. You can also pick up worn stones on trails and dirt roads where they are smoothed by people walking on them.
@AncientPottery
2 жыл бұрын
That's awesome. I am told that gastroliths make excellent polishing stones but I have never found one.
@crowstudios300
2 жыл бұрын
The ability to gather all that is needed in the wild for free has been a real draw for me in this activity...It's also lead to us making natural cordage and, just last night, making our own natural glue from pine sap and charcoal. Fantastic tool kit Sir. Thank you.
@AncientPottery
2 жыл бұрын
Sound like you are all set to make these tools completely from nature, no hot melt glue or store bought twine for you.
@myfairytreasures
2 жыл бұрын
I loved this video Andy sooo much great information. I always love watching your videos.
@AncientPottery
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Angie!
@deborahdanhauer8525
2 жыл бұрын
That was so interesting! Thank you🤗 I was holding my breath while you were collecting those thorns!🐝🤗❤️
@AncientPottery
2 жыл бұрын
Ha ha, yes it is a pokey business. Thanks
@deborahdanhauer8525
2 жыл бұрын
@@AncientPottery You’re welcome🐝❤️🤗
@Sheepdog1314
2 жыл бұрын
excellent. Thank you Sir
@AncientPottery
2 жыл бұрын
You are most welcome
@mojavebohemian814
Жыл бұрын
Thanks! Abt 10 degrees F today in NE AZ. Great fun ahead. I appreciate the natural resources and history.
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
You are welcome
@guarnerrosales9806
Жыл бұрын
Always Readys SUPER Qty Art, have pices in my Head (ORIGINAL) My respect for you ...CONGRATULATIONS
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much 😀
@markgibsons_SWpottery
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks again Andy for another good video! Also, Congratulations on 40k Subscribers! We appreciate your consistant, and quality content that you create!
@AncientPottery
2 жыл бұрын
Many thanks Mark. Keep up the good work yourself.
@deanatankersley6851
2 жыл бұрын
Love this video, really enjoyed this.. so informative!! 😊👌👏👍
@AncientPottery
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you
@coopart1
2 жыл бұрын
Cool ! I’m gonna make one of those needle tools .
@AncientPottery
2 жыл бұрын
It works!
@potterywithme
2 жыл бұрын
Great and excellent
@AncientPottery
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@topafkar
2 жыл бұрын
Woow very nice idea. Great work freind 👍
@AncientPottery
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@angeladazlich7145
2 жыл бұрын
Great video, makes me want to challenge myself to do a complicated piece using only tools like those. Sometime...
@AncientPottery
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks! You should.
@potterywithme
2 жыл бұрын
Very good
@AncientPottery
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@AdisiTaliWaya
7 ай бұрын
Here in southcentral Pennsylvania, we have honey locust trees that grow 7- to 8-inch-long thorns. I use them and attach them to a handcarved handle that I carve out of a staghorn sumac tree branch. The center of the wood has a soft center, much like styrofoam, so it's easy to make a hole just by pushing that center in and using sand to widen the hole. I then attach the thorn to the handle with some pine pich that I make myself for a needle tool. I do the same thing for making my brushes, but I use horsehair, whitetail deer hair or porcupine hair for the bristles and place them inside bamboo or rivercain handles. If I need to rasp or grind something, I just go to the creek near me and get different types of sand stones that are found around here.
@germanus7302
2 жыл бұрын
My mom would be disappointed you didnt use the mesquite sap as a hard candy or gum 😂 She loves to just pick it off of trees in the parking lot of my nieces school while she waits to pick her up.
@AncientPottery
2 жыл бұрын
I have a better use for mesquite sap, as a binder for home made paint
@bje2920
2 жыл бұрын
Great video
@AncientPottery
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@bje2920
2 жыл бұрын
@@AncientPottery your welcome
@billskinner623
2 жыл бұрын
Have you ever used a shell for a scraper in place of the deer rib or the gourd?
@AncientPottery
2 жыл бұрын
I have fiddled around with it some but living in Arizona, my access to shells is pretty limited.
@Dovid2000
2 жыл бұрын
Excellent tutorial, Andy! Your native plants (mesquite, yucca) do not grow here, in Israel. Thorns, however, we have aplenty.
@AncientPottery
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you, the principles can apply anywhere. I have heard from people all over the world who can find yucca plants growing in landscaping, perhaps that might be where to find yucca in Israel. And gourds? Didn't the prophet Jonah sit under a gourd plant?
@Dovid2000
2 жыл бұрын
@@AncientPottery The prophet Jonah actually sat under a castor bean plant (Ricinus communis). At least, that is what all our biblical commentators say. Yes, we have here gourds. I'll find a good one to use.
@AncientPottery
2 жыл бұрын
@@Dovid2000 It must be a translation thing, my Bible says gourd.
@sheilam4964
2 жыл бұрын
👍👍👍👍👍
@BubuH-cq6km
2 жыл бұрын
😎 👍🏼
@mihailvormittag6211
2 жыл бұрын
👍
@emilianocontreras7435
Жыл бұрын
Contenido de mexico
@jermberm2788
2 жыл бұрын
I have just stumbled upon your channel and have been inspired to try to Obtain/refine produce some pottery/sculptures, of my own. I have a few questions I was hoping you or anyone in the comments may be able to answer. 1. How do Find out where it is legal to dig for clay in my area? 2. Is all natural clay typically safe for use of cooking/working with? If not what to watch out for? 3. I live in an apartment but have a patio. Could I fire my pottery in large something like a large terracotta pot with charcoal or a charcoal grill? 4. I live in a temperate forest region of NA. Can anyone recommend what to look out for when hunting down some clay? As a kid I would often find shades or malleable damp red/yellow clay just about everywhere I dug. Would such clay be a good start? Thanks!
@AncientPottery
2 жыл бұрын
1. Find clay, then ask permission. Ask to collect clay from a construction site or a farmers ditch. Some places nobody cares about, old quarries and roadsides are two examples. 2. Generally, yes, I have never heard of someone being poisoned from clay. Some people eat clay and all of accidentally eat dirt in our food. Every been camping and found dirt in your food? Many people have. 3. Not sure, maybe. Depends on a lot of things. You might also find some small corner of vacant lot or a parking lot (with permission). 4. Yes, that would be a great place to start. Creek banks and road cuts are good places to look. And watch this kzitem.info/news/bejne/xJdoln6hhHhylno
@jermberm2788
2 жыл бұрын
@@AncientPottery thank you!
@nate5830
2 жыл бұрын
I’ve recently started getting into the wild clay thing! I have some questions and IF you have time I would love to ask them to you.
@AncientPottery
2 жыл бұрын
You can email me using the form on this page ancientpottery.how/contact-us/
@gingganggoolie
Жыл бұрын
As a professional bodger, I recommend getting someone else to hold the handles as you drill them!
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
I had to look that term up, never heard it before. Why someone else? In case I drill myself? It doesn’t seem as dangerous as some here have said but as a professional bodger I guess you have experience.
@renpixie
2 жыл бұрын
I’ve been thinking of cutting some of my hair off & gluing it to a wood handle.
@AncientPottery
2 жыл бұрын
Good idea
@jacobhempel1855
Жыл бұрын
Does the gourd need to be dried out when you try turning it into a scraper?
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Yes
@airstreamwanderings3683
2 жыл бұрын
Good suggestions plus the cost is potentially ZERO.
@AncientPottery
2 жыл бұрын
True, thanks.
@cowboyyeehaw9037
18 күн бұрын
What if instead of hot glue, you tried using primitive tree resin glue? There are different methods and mixes of it for slightly different purposes; some include beeswax, charcoal, or moss
@whitetopmountainlaurelchil3541
2 жыл бұрын
Hello, I was wondering if you may have a tip for me on when I connect clay together to combine even pinch pot's to make a pitcher when I do the water test or separates. It is a mid temp and I pit it with split wood. So the temp is getting supper hot. Thanks. I my self be for this video was looking in to primitive tools. Thanks. Nice video, and good ideals for tools. I looked a a hawthorn and a few others in our area
@AncientPottery
2 жыл бұрын
Hi. I am not clear on what the problem is. When you say connect clay, do you mean like adding a coil out adding a handle? I have a lot of good videos with tips for coil pottery making, maybe this one will help kzitem.info/news/bejne/uG1-xYSOpp-ZdXY
@whitetopmountainlaurelchil3541
2 жыл бұрын
Yes. I have watched your Coil Video. I have done the pintch connection. That is we're you take two peaches of clay in a coil or stacking to pintch pots to get Her that makes a pitcher. I may have made it to thick. That may have made it need to have more heat. I got me some hedge to fire pit with that gets to a very high temperatures. Hedge wood is a very high temp wood that will melt your wood stove. I am experimenting with it. The pitcher split at the seam. When I do coil even when I pintch the seam together it separates at the seams. We're it had been pinched together. It is like the water pushes them apart.
@whitetopmountainlaurelchil3541
2 жыл бұрын
Thank You Very Much. For Your Responce. I have studied your Videos up to date.
@AncientPottery
2 жыл бұрын
@@whitetopmountainlaurelchil3541 very unusual, it might be the quality of your clay but it's hard to say from here
@whitetopmountainlaurelchil3541
2 жыл бұрын
Could the thick ness also have a role in it. I am not sure but I thank it may have been too thick. This pitcher came out thicker than normal. An if it was to thick I may not gotten to the temperature that would have to reach a higher temp to burn the carbon. And it can be the clay. I have made a few others and it gives me the sound I like. My bowl base - Puki I made. The Chilhowee Cherokee made a bowl base. Or they used a gourd as a pottery casting mold in our oral History and coiled work. I have been watching your videos and they are awesome. I also would like to imply that a bowl base or a Puki is a form of Clay casting. In every experiment of my Pottery. It has many things that the prices or fragments was used in Jewelry among other items. I thank sharing the information is cool and making this plat form is helpful. It is awesome for Natives we want to share with other. My wild clay I have learned why some came out very porous. And more less porous that becomes more except able for cooking. Thank You Very Much.
@ryancraigjamescurtis4135
Жыл бұрын
We need a double-like button. 🤓
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Lol thanks
@austinrath9741
2 жыл бұрын
Hello! I have found some clay near Phoenix AZ and while it is definitely clay, it sticks to my hands way more than store bought clay and Andy's clay. This was both before and after processing. It is red if that helps. Does anyone have any ways of improving sticky clay? When I finished my piece my hands looked like a child who just finished playing in the mud. Haven't fired it yet but it has dried nicely.
@AncientPottery
2 жыл бұрын
Some clays are like that. Adding temper (non plastic material) will alleviate that problem. Usually something like sand is an easy fix. My video that comes out tomorrow morning will answer this question for you.
@austinrath9741
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you Andy. Love the vids and classes
@salhammond7060
2 жыл бұрын
What kind of gourd?
@AncientPottery
2 жыл бұрын
Just an unordinary gourd, um bottle gourd?
@ambersmith6517
2 жыл бұрын
where i live the red clay will stick to your shoes with every step growing thicker until its so heavy you cant left your foot its hard to find places around here thats not all red sticky clay a place with no grass that drys out has deep cracks every where i wouls like to make some big pickling crocks and maybe use fired clay to clean water or as seperators in battery cells or plating cells i bet there is many uses for fired clay like making bleach from water and table salt what do you think ? also a more importan thing to find out for your self is did every thing truly explode from nothing is this worth thinking about and testing for your self one side says people way smarter than you have already figered out we are nothingness with out true pupose no true right or wrong then we die nothing more and your simple dunb or crazy not to just believe them the other side says we have a father that is the creator of all thing that loves us and welcomes us with open arms we are to test ALL things for your self believe nothing and no one with out thinking and testing for your self what is true the creator made it so simple a babe can get it he welcomes with open arms knowing there is not one with out sin how can you run to them loving arms if you dont believe and think only the simple or dumb could believe in a creator over every thing exploding from nothing God said the creation proves the creator your nothingness and you live is meaningless or your the child of the creator of all things and he loves you and welcomes you with open arms you may say thats not the God i have heard of well maybe your not testing for your self and just believeing others when you look just to prove what you already know you find what you already know your mind was made up before you started but if you look and the truth is more important than what others think of you and you truly humblely seek truth truth you will find seek God the father while you still can my freinds read the story of the lost sheep and the story of the prodigal son you have google with in seconds you can learn how God truly is we are all so jaded by this evil world are hearts are hardened dont let the evil win with your life seek truth humbly putting truth over everything else and you will find it
@ClintJohnsonWriter
2 жыл бұрын
I like that OSHA would describe the video is NSFW. I have committed all the marginally unsafe practices you exhibited and the only disclaimer needed is “be careful, don’t hurt yourself… too much.”. It’s fun, try it at home!
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