Clay Pottery Cutting Tips

Video Transcript

"So once both of your pieces have set up to leather hard which means you can rub your finger across them without leaving much of a indention but it is easy to put your fingernail and leave a indention about the same of a hard cheese. You are going to take your wire cutter, hold it firmly against the bat, slide it underneath the piece, wipe your hands a little bit, gently cup both sides of it and tilt and it would come right off. Then you can move it to where you are going to be cutting. I'm going to show you how to do the cuts for making the holes for the air flow. First, I'm going to take this hole cutting tool which is pipe cut in a angle so that you get a perfectly round hole but it has a nice sharp cutting point. I'm going to make a hole. Now it is important, well it might be important to you, it is important to me that these be symmetrical so I am going to show you a easy way to have your designs around the pot fit on their very nicely."