How to Make a $50 Pottery Wheel

You can use a ceiling fan motor and a plastic bucket to make a pretty decent pottery wheel for under $50.  The most expensive part is the ceiling fan, and you can pick those up, on sale, for $30, or at a garage sale for even less.

History:  My kids were both into pottery, and really wanted a wheel.  Decent wheels are pretty expensive, but luckily a friend of mine had a Clay Boss pottery wheel, and loaned it to us for a few weeks.  We had a lot of fun with it, but alas, had to give it back.  I recently picked up an old ceiling fan that one of my neighbors was throwing away, and I realized I could use the motor to make a pottery wheel, similar to the Clay Boss.  Here is a link to my original inspiration:

http://www.clay-king.com/pottery_wheels/speedball_pottery_wheels/speedball_clay_boss_pottery_wheel.html