Deouss Mid High Fire White Stoneware Clay for Pottery;Mid Fire Cone 5-7;Ideal for Wheel Throwing,Hand Building,Sculpting;Great for All Skill Levels;Whiteware Clay- Pottery Clay Fires White;10 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.

Santa gave me a new pottery wheel and I had been using air dry clay before this clay to practice with. What a difference. This clay works well, is easy to build a cone and center and my first practice dish here, while not perfect was quick to do and easy to build height and the texture was great. It dries evenly and slowly such that I could fix most of these initial imperfections (on my part) before it fully dried. I haven’t fired anything yet, but I’m loving this clay. It was a bit dry but I dampened the board I wedged on and that helped add the tad of moisture it needed.

Worked great! Less mess for youngsters.

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.

This is just what the artist ordered! Perfectly-packed clay double-wrapped and then boxed, to arrive in pristine usable form. And what's not immediately being used can easily be reliably resealed for a later project. EXCELLENT clay; molds well, clings and lets go just as good clay will. PERFECT!

I would agree with some of the other reviewers regarding this clay body. I’ve been hand building for 15+ years and would not recommend this clay even if they were giving it away. Very dry, zero plasticity, cracks constantly…even with slow covered drying time. I have no confidence that the pieces I made with this clay will even make it through the bisque firing. Very disappointing. Don’t waste your money.

Bought as a Christmas gift for my daughter so she could have some clay to throw at home. It seems to be good quality, clean and not overly wet or dry, just right. The key point is to get the right 'cone' material (whatever that means) so when fired it cures properly. Will buy again. Note: Amazon is asking if this a good "toy"... I don't think pottery clay is a toy.

Too dry. Used for the ceramic jewelry workshop. Ended up being cream color, which I liked, but was a bit hard to work with. The texture is fine tho. Needs more water to work with. Finished product is durable.

Exactly the clay I needed to make tiny little wangs out of. Whimsical wangs are in full swing. You can cook the clay in the oven