Video: Removing Bubbles from Clay

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Sometimes air pockets occur in your clay pottery projects. Learn about how to correctly get rid of them and other clay forming tips that you will need from a pottery expert to create a queso warmer in this free video clip.

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So I have mention that I have felt a air bubble and the way that you take care of that is you take your needle tool. I don't know if you can see very well but there is a lump right there on the outside. What I'm going to do is I'm just going to pierce it several times and then I'm going to push with even pressure from one side to the other. That should mostly take care that air bubble and as I throw and compress the side it should even out the deviate that it leaves. You don't want to leave a air bubble because it would expand in the firing when the air inside expands it can cause a crack. So now I'm doing the same thing that I did before only I'm using this hard rib so that the walls are very compressed. I'm keeping my eye on that pointer. Once I got this corner pointing at the bottom corner of the pointer I'm at the height that I'm looking for. You want to take your hard rib, slide it toward the bat to make a undercut and you are ready to make the bowl.

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Removing Bubbles from Clay

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