Customer Reviews

Pottery Making Illustrated

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Pottery Making Illustrated is a magazine with lots of practical advice for beginning and advanced potters. There is a wide range of subjects focused on topics that are useful. Other ceramics magazines seem to be about cutting edge sculpture, but what if you want to make bowls, plates, or cups?
Pottery Making Illustrated is the place to get that information. One issue I bought had three articles I have used many times and shared with friends.

Pottery Making has many good ideas and projects, especially for teachers of pottery and for children. The articles are clearly written and easy to understand. I enjoy reading it.

I like this magazine for its hands on article about making pottery and throwing and altering pottery

Purchased as a birthday gift for my sister, who is a fairly new potter, along with Clay Times. She loves them both, and says that each magazine has a very different perspective.

This is a relative young magazine and still evolving. It has great articles for beginning to intermediate potters with a few advanced articles too. PMI presents more "how to" and practicle articles than CM and Clay Times. Good tips for most people working with clay.

I love this magazine. I've been getting it for about 5 years, and the years I've missed before that, I bought the back issues on ebay.
PMI has something for everyone, beginner or professional. It's not snooty and too artsy, they actually show you how to make stuff, it's not a photo album magazine for museum pieces! If you are a potter and need some fresh ideas this is a good place to look.
The articles vary from my scientific to fun stuff. There are also book reviews and advertising. For me this book replaces some books I might have bought on how to do stuff like make certain molds. I bought a book because of the reviews in here too. I bought a images on clay book. I can't imagine someone not getting any good info from PMI. I look forward to every one I get and read it from cover to cover.
I've always gotten my magazine on time, and never had any issues with customer service.
Vent: I don't understand why people leave one star for their problem waiting for the next issue to come out, and their subcription to start. These are 6 issues a year. If you order at the end of December and January already came out, I would imagine you'd have to wait until Feb or March to get your next issue. In a hurry? go to Borders

Imagine my surprise when discovering that a magazine subscription to this publication will take 3-4 MONTHS do deliver. If ordered directly it would require only WEEKS. I would have canceled immediately but the action was not allowed. Love the magazine and discount but let a person know of the delayed delivery out front. This was intended as a gift so causes some embarrassment.

I ordered this magazine for my mom on Dec. 1st and she will not recieve the first copy until March something. I may have ordered another pottery magazine had I known it would take so long for her to receive the first copy. However-nothing against the magazine itself. It is a great magazine for potters or those interested in pottery.

I cannotv review because it still has not been received plus I did not want it sent to my address since it was a gift and it was difficult trying to make the changes. At this time the changes qwere still not made so I would not purchase magazines from Amazon again. Hopefully the magazine will be good and appreciated but my experience was not.