DIY Pottery Kick Wheel

Learn how to make a homemade pottery wheel of your very own. With these DIY pottery kick wheel plans, you can save money while still pursuing your art.

By Jon Kaplan
Updated on November 12, 2022
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Learn how to make a homemade pottery wheel of your very own. With these DIY pottery kick wheel plans, you can save money while still pursuing your art.

Pottery, like other fields of art (and life in general), has not been immune from the rising tide of price increases. It seems clear to me that fewer and fewer people will be willing or able to shell out increasingly large sums of money on artistic interests in the future. Other methods of procuring necessary materials and tools must be found.

The plans that follow are for a DIY pottery kick wheel which costs under sixty dollars, depending upon availability of necessary parts. The pottery kick wheel is an exceptionally fine piece of equipment: Very reliable, fairly cheap and easy to build. The rich satisfaction you’ll get from throwing pottery on a wheel you’ve built yourself is an added bonus.

For sake of simplicity, I’ll divide these building instructions into three main sections: (1) construction of the frame, (2) casting of the flywheel and securing it to the shaft and (3) aligning the bearings. You’ll find a list of necessary materials included here, too.

My best advice is to amass all materials before you start building. It’s kind of a drag having to break the construction routine to buy some parts. Let’s build.

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