A selection of tools I use for pottery - both throwing and hand-building. You can see my blog entry on what I use them for here: potsandpaint.blogspot.com/2010/09/pottery-tools.html

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙘 𝙎𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙡 on Instagram: "How to use a loop tool ❤️ ••• Follow @beautifulswirls for more!"

andrettapottery on Instagram: "Have you ever seen handle making on the wheel? Well today I was demonstrating how to make handles on the wheel to students and this is how it went."

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙘 𝙎𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙡 on Instagram: "How to use a clay shrinkage ruler ❤️ ••• Follow @ericaphiferpottery for more!"

Florian Gadsby on Instagram: "Rahmi, (@rd.pottery.tools), recently sent me this little gift, a beautiful loop tungsten carbide trimmer with a wood turned handle. The blade has a curved section and a straight edge and sharp corner, which I’m hoping will work well for my feet, as I’m yet to finding a tungsten turning tool that can fulfil this need, but I think it has more to do with the angle of the blade, rather than the shape of the tool itself. This was a pleasure to trim with, to gouge…

While a Basic Pottery Tool Kit seems simplistic, each item can be used in an infinite number of ways. This is a guide to their basics use, but your imagination is the limit when it comes to what you do it them. There are a million variations of these tools and a million more other tools you can get, but if you are just getting started, this is all you need! Likewise, just about anything is a tool if you are creative enough! Potters are infamous tool hoarders, you've been warned...this set…