Pottery
Wheel throwing, trimming, and glazing — from first centering to the kiln
- What
- Wheel throwing, trimming, and glazing — from first centering to the kiln
- Cost
- Free
- Needs
- no digital prerequisites — no account, no API keys. Real-world equipment you need yourself: a potter's wheel, clay, basic tools, and kiln access (e.g. a community studio membership with shelf space). The skill references references/CONE-CHART.md — install it too.
- Install
- Copy the installer prompt below into your Muse — your agent does the rest.
Curated by Skill Harbor — a complete wheel-throwing guide: prerequisites (wheel, clay body, tools, kiln access), wedging technique, centering with anchored elbows, opening, pulling walls with even pressure, shaping, cutting off, trimming a foot ring, pulling and attaching handles, bisque and glaze firing with ramp guidance, and a common-mistakes section (fighting the wheel, dry hands, fast pulls, uneven drying). Honest about the learning curve: 20–50 hours of practice minimum to develop the feel. References real sources (Ceramics: A Potter's Handbook, Mastering Cone 6 Glazes, Orton cone chart) and ships with a cone-chart reference file. Discovered via skills.sh, listed here with credit to its creator by @joshrotenberg. Honest caveats: no digital prerequisites, but you need real equipment — a wheel, clay, and kiln access (a community studio membership with shelf space); Muse can coach the technique, not replace practice; 1 install on the catalog, but popularity is not a review. Skill Harbor never reviews the code, review it yourself before use. Not verified.
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Install
Prerequisites: no digital prerequisites — no account, no API keys. Real-world equipment you need yourself: a potter's wheel, clay, basic tools, and kiln access (e.g. a community studio membership with shelf space). The skill references references/CONE-CHART.md — install it too. Install "Pottery" for me. A complete wheel-throwing guide: wedging, centering, opening, pulling, shaping, trimming, handles, firing and glazing, with a common-mistakes section. Repository: https://github.com/joshrotenberg/practical-skills 1. Fetch the SKILL.md file for the pottery skill (path: skills/pottery/SKILL.md) plus references/CONE-CHART.md from the repository into a temporary folder and summarize what it does in one or two sentences. 2. Safety check: review the SKILL.md and scripts for anything suspicious (unexpected network calls, shell commands, credential harvesting). This repo should contain zero secrets in code, credentials only via the secure vault, allowed hosts declared in the SKILL.md. Verify that holds here; STOP on any red flag and tell me. 3. Install it as a skill: copy SKILL.md and its helper files into the agent's skills directory, in a folder named "pottery". 4. Verify with no network calls: frontmatter valid, files in place. 5. Report what was installed, where, and what I still need to do myself (e.g. join a community studio for wheel and kiln access). GitHub is optional: if I have a GitHub account or the gh CLI, you may use it; otherwise public access is fine. Never require it unless it's in the prerequisites above. Rules: don't touch anything outside the temp folder and the install target. If anything looks off, stop and ask me.
Questions
How do I install a build?
Every product page includes a copy-paste install prompt. Paste it into your Muse and it sets the build up for you — no manual configuration.
Where does my money go?
Straight to the seller. Skill Harbor never processes payments: checkout happens on the seller’s own page, usually Stripe.
What does the ✓ next to a creator’s name mean?
It means we confirmed the identity of the person behind the listing. It says nothing about the code itself — always check a build before installing it.