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Shimpo Product Catalog

 


    Shimpo was founded in 1952 as a manufacturer of electric motors.  As the simple potter's wheel is the ultimate application of that expertise, the first Shimpo electric potter's wheel were introduced in 1955 and would, over time, become the classic pottery wheel design which was envied by every pottery wheel manufacturer.  Today, Shimpo Ceramics is part of the Nidec group, a 6 billion dollar global company headquartered in Kyoto Japan that specializes in manufacturing some of the finest electrical motors, micro motors, spindle motors, drive units and instrumentation in the world.

 

 

    The Nidec name may not be readily familiar to every consumer, but the ultra quiet computer hard drives from Seagate, Western Digital and Samsung are quiet specifically because the hard drives use the Nidec spindle motor.  Nidec controls over 70% of the worldwide spindle motor market for computer hard drives and media players.

 

 

    Based upon nearly the half century of manufacturing experience with pottery wheels and other devices, Shimpo introduced the Shimpo Whisper Series of pottery wheels in 2003.  Today, the Shimpo VL Whisper is considered the finest pottery wheel available any where in the world.

 

    For the ceramic and pottery industry, Shimpo manufactures electric pottery wheels, the world famous Shimpo Banding Wheel and a variety of accessory products with an emphasis in on well performing, quiet products.  The products showcased on Dogwood Ceramic Supply's Shimpo Product Catalog page are always on display in the Dogwood Ceramic Supply showroom and available in Dogwood's warehouse inventory for immediate delivery to anywhere in the United States.

 


 

Shimpo Products

 

  Shimpo VL Whisper Pottery Wheel
     
  Shimpo Banding Wheels



    For bats for use with your Shimpo Pottery Wheel please see Speedball optional equipment, or North Star Pottery Throwing Bats more information.  Dogwood Ceramic Supply offers the EPS pottery stools as well as Speedball pottery stools for use with pottery wheels.  And don't forget Standard Clay and Kemper Tools!
 
 
    Additional Shimpo pottery products, such as pug mills and glaze mixers are available with advance order.  As these specialty Shimpo products are not actively stocked by Dogwood Ceramic Supply the products are not featured on our website.

 

 

 

 

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Thursday 1PM to 7PM

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The products showcased on Dogwood Ceramic Supply's Shimpo Product Catalog page are always on display in the Dogwood Ceramic Supply showroom and available in Dogwood's warehouse inventory for immediate delivery to anywhere in the United States.