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This is where a photo would help us .

More info on how you are making and attaching handles will help as well

extruded or pulled or pulled off pot?

Thick to thin handles?

clay has memory and remembers where it has been and can try to go back there.

what temp are these fired to?

are they slumping?

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Iin the second photo the handle is attached just off center line to the right looking down. Thats what the top attachment looks like to me. My 1st guess is that it starting off center. The attachment angle could be off off as well-that is the cut has an slight angle and even if the handle is pushed straight when wet it may return to original spot.

These English style teapots are a classic form.

I'm right handed and tend to favor this side with more pressure and have to think about this when doing attachments.

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It looks like your handle was off center to the right ( about half the handle width) and not in line with the spout to begin with.

This may be adding visually to the torquing that you are describing.

 

It's not hard to get things off center and not parallel on a round object. There are numerous reasons why a teapot is very hard to build  correctly.

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