kick wheel

A common factory form and one which is well adapted for studio work is the kick wheel.

If a kick wheel be used some time must be given to practicing the motion without using clay.

The conjectural illustration shows a Jamestown potter shaping a vessel on his crude kick wheel.

The kick wheel used by the Jamestown potter may have resembled the one in the seventeenth-century engraving.

With a kick wheel having a removable head the mandrel can be screwed on and the block turned39 down in an upright position.