Forming a Clay Spout

Video Transcript

"Ok so now I'm going to finish off this spout. The first thing I'm going to do is take my knife again and I'm going to refine that hole that I cut earlier and make it fit just a little bit better with the spout. I didn't want to take off too much to start with because you can always take off more later, you can't add it back as easily. So now we'll smooth the inside, the actual edge of the pitcher, into the spout so that they make one continuous piece, and now you want to take the lip, get your fingers wet, gently pinch and smooth back and forth so that this is rounded and it won't be obvious that it was a cut slab. Finally you want to do something similar to what I did when I pulled the spout which is to just push that well, hold your hand as a cup, and push that well out a little bit. And there we have it. That is an added spout."