Mid High Fire White Stoneware Clay For Pottery;Mid Cone 5-7;Ideal Wheel Throwing,Hand Building,Sculpting;Great All Skill Levels;Whiteware Clay- Pottery Fires White;5 Lbs

I'm no professional ceramist, but my throwing chops are steadily improving. My go-to clay has been Laguna BMix; which was recommended to me and I think is incredibly good for hand-building, slab work, etc. However, my assumptions were confirmed that it seems abnormally difficult to use on the wheel now that I've used this Deouss clay. Granted, I've only been able to throw 2.5 lbs once... But it was so much easier to use that it wasn't a wishful, hopeful mind-trick that I played on myself-- it was just that obvious that this is a better clay to throw. Centering, coning, pulling, and forming happened faster, easier, and I ended up with a decent angular vase that I will end up trimming, firing, and glazing. Oh, I also lost less clay in the process. And just as notable, I needed literally a fraction of the water compared to the BMix. After reading a few comments before I made my purchase, it has to be said that my 5 lbs. showed up DOUBLE-wrapped. The clay was nowhere close to being overly dry out of the box. I am most definitely buying more sooner than later.

Overall, for the price of the clay it isn't a bad clay, it just requires a bit more work than the clay I normally get. So if you are willing to spend a bit more time than normal wedging, the value is good. This clay came fairly stiff, and required me to slice, spray and then leave for about 12-15 hours before it was possible to attempt to wedge it, and even after about 10-15 solid minutes of spiral wedging one half, and slam wedging the other half it was workable enough to throw on the wheel but was still a little rough. Two attempts on the wheel with the slam wedged pieces had both of them breaking when I attempted to cone it up to ensure it was centered, but after taking both chunks off the wheel and spiral wedging them with a little bit more water sprayed on they ended up working just fine. The two pieces I spiral wedged were also a bit rough to cone and required a bit more water than I'd normally use to initially open up a center for my pots. If the clay initially comes way too stiff to even try wedging, I'd recommend first dropping it on the floor from about waist height, 6 or 7 times, then dent it too see how malleable it is. That worked enough to get it unstiffened for me to start wedging it.

The pits. This clay must be old. It is not pliable. It cracks as you roll it out. Glad I only got 5 lb of this mess.

Works

Worked great! Less mess for youngsters.