Attaching a Clay Handle

Video Transcript

"So now that I got my length of extruded handle I am now ready to attach that to the bowl. The first that you want to do is smooth that out so that when you go to bending it, it does not get a whole bunch of cracks in it. Once you got it smooth cut it to the length that you are going to use, take your wire tool, and cut that bowl off of the bat. Tip it and it would come right off. Then you would take your scoring tool and score the edge, it is nice if you have a scoring tool with multiple points it makes your job a little bit easier. Then score where you would be attaching. Now because this is setting down in another pot you don't want that handle to come all the way down because if it does it is going to have kind of a high handle. Score the inside here, in fact that is a little bit longer that I want. Pinch off just a little bit and score and then you can go ahead and just press right in to where you scored. Use your finger to support it and press the bottom of it. Once you have it attach you just squish the handle until it gets to the shape that you want. Remembering that you need to leave some space down here so it can set into that other pot now you got your bowl with a handle so you can take it from the microwave to the table."