Things You'll Need:
- Pottery wheel
- Bat
- Vase or clay vessel, newly finished shaping
- Thick gauge dental floss or thin wire
- Plasti-bat (Optional)
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Step 1
Begin with the bat still firmly attached to the potter's wheel and the pot attached to the bat. The pot should still be slightly wet, it’s best to cut them from the bat immediately after you finish shaping them.
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Step 2
Get a good grip on the wire; wrap the ends around your hands if it helps. Stretch your wire as taught as possible across the far end of the bat. The pot should be between you and the wire.
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Step 3
Start the potter's wheel rotating very slowly.
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Step 4
Keeping the wire flush to the bat's surface and as taut as possible; bring the wire toward you in one slow, continuous motion.
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Step 5
Stop the wheel and carefully remove the bat from the wheel head. The pot is probably still too wet to touch, but it has been cut from the bat. The suction between the two has been broken and you need not worry of them reattaching. Place the bat with the pot somewhere to dry.
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Step 6
When the pot is hard as leather (Approximately one to three days) gently lift it from the bat and store it to dry sufficiently before it’s fired.
