Customer Reviews for VEVOR Pottery Wheel 36cm Pottery Forming Machine with Foot Pedal Pottery Wheel for Adults 450W Electric Pottery Wheel for DIY Clay Art Craft

So, it is a beautiful wheel. Great price. It came a whole week early! I got this one simply because I’ve never thrown before and I will be teaching myself. BUT - a few things. It definitely has some bumps/dings/scratches so I’m not sure if I got a previously used wheel (aka a return). It was very well protected and cushioned in its box so I highly doubt it was from shipping. Another thing is that once you flip the switch to forward or reverse, it just starts going and it’s pretty fast. Not sure if this is how all wheels are or not but from videos I see of people using other wheels, the pedal starts and stops it. With mine you can only control how much faster it goes and I can slow it down to the original speed. (again never thrown before) So all in all — not really sure if this is the BEST wheel for me since I’m trying to learn and throw for the first time. But we shall see . UPDATE (11/6/24) - I contacted VEVOR customer service last night regarding the wheel spinning without the pedal being pressed. They got back to me this evening and sent me a video on how to resolve the issue. Took all of 5 minutes. 4 of which was me trying to understand/do what was instructed. 100/10 customer service & I’ll say it again : A WEEK EARLY DELIVERY .

This inexpensive wheel is not going to have the quality materials of a $1000 pottery wheel. Everything is made of thinner and lighter material. BUT for the price it is an amazing value. The folks, who designed this wheel, were able to pull together a well-functioning wheel with modest materials. In short, it works and seems to work quite well. I've not had it long enough to speak to its durability. The wheel is low, so you will need to raise it about 8 inches, depending on your preferences. I started out with a pair of concrete blocks, which seemed to be about right for me. But because I needed to move the wheel about from time to time, I built a small lightweight base out of scrap wood. The wheel has more power than I expected. I've centered 3 lbs of clay with ease and the motor did not slow. Something to consider is that the overall weight of the wheel is around 25 lbs. So, if you are going to lean in for centering larger pieces, you may want to place the wheel against a wall or something heavy so that it does not move. The foot control is very responsive. I can slow it down to a crawl. The high end speed seems about right for centering. All in all, it was an excellent buy. 2024 UPDATE: The speed control has become very difficult to adjust at the lower speeds. When trying to increase the speed just a little, it speeds up rapidly and has destroyed a couple of pieces that I was throwing. I suspect it is the foot pedal. I checked inside and found that it uses plastic gears and I suspect that it now has some play in the speed adjustment. Bummer.

Such a good wheel for the price . It’s a really good size . The height of it was not what I expected. Works really good the speed is awesome. The pedal I think needs a bit of oil maybe because it’s sometimes tough to slow it down at the right tempo without fully stopping it . But honestly really great purchase at such good price .

This was the perfect wheel to replace the trash I bought on Amazon for double the price. This one is PERFECT. Easy to use, clean, and a great starting point to begin getting the feel for pottery. Would suggest to anyone looking for a mini wheel over any others on Amazon.

so far have thrown several pieces on it and it works quite well. i have only worked up to 4 pounds on it so can't honestly say if it does live up to its 6.6lb clay limit. i will say there are two problems with the wheel and they are minor. 1 is the height but that can easily be solved for under 6 bucks by 3 concrete cinder blocks. the second is the slip tray is quite loose. it does not leak but it does make it hard to brace against for stability. That is easily solved by superglue and 2 well placed bolts. i would say i have spent 10 extra dollars on it to get a wheel that is very functional for a beginner potter.

My wife and I are into pottery. It is a hobby for us both, but my wife also sells her work at art shows. This wheel was an excellent find as it's 14\"/35.5 cm wheel was larger and it's 450W motor more powerful than ANY other models in its price range. Till now, we've done all our throwing at commercial and university art studios where we pay for the time. We have been casually shopping for a pottery wheel for several years but good ones can cost a substantial amount of money. My wife found this unit and recognized it as an exceptional find. This model was available in a slightly different version whose legs were height adjustable. We likely would have taken it if we had seen it in time as we have put this in our basement where the floor slopes towards the drain. We were concerned about the wheel being level but our later research showed this to be pretty much irrelevant to throwing. You Tube has several videos of people throwing on wheels at horrific angles with no efffect on their results. And I could always put a shim under one of the legs if it became a concern. Anyway, the wheel is very similar to models we had been using at studios. It is reversible and came with a foot pedal for speed control. We found the speed control to MUCH better than what we had been finding in commercial studios. Whether or not that is simply due to the wear and tear those wheels have experienced is unknown, but it is very pleasant to use this one - no struggles to get the exact speed you want and we had no difficulty setting it to very slow speeds when needed. The 14\" wheel is more than adequate for anything we are attempting and could handle very large pottery - as would the 450W motor. The competition were 350W or less and I won't say that Vevor was the only 450W wheel out there, but we saw no one else offering one and you can find 350W wheels for three times the price we paid for this 450. Since this purchase, I have been surprised at the number of devices and

I'm impressed with this unit. It was good power, slow downs are rare. It is difficult (and maybe impossible) to run it very slow. This is the only drawback so far. I bought some bed risers to get it to a workable height. Overall, it is a great value.

Overall great way to get into ceramics. Love that the wheel has forward and reverse for the motor which isn’t always available even on higher end wheels. Only complaint is that the pedal is too sensitive and hard to modulate speed with your foot with lower speeds. I’ve pretty much given up on using my foot and control slow speeds with my hand - even then it’s hard to get a low speed rotation.

Though it’s not the intended use of the pottery wheel, this item has been a huge saver of my hands when polishing dice. I make dice out of resin and they need to be polished and sanded down so I utilize the pottery wheel with my polishing papers sticky tacked down to both speed up the process and save my hands pain. I’m able to complete my process in a fraction of the time thanks to this little pottery wheel!

Good size and works well.