Video: Pottery Tips on Giffen Grips

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Giffen grips are an easy way to hold a clay pottery piece to the center of your spin wheel. Learn tips on what a Giffen grip is and how it is used from a pottery expertin this free video clip on clay pottery making.

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When trimming really tall items or putting together something that's going to become tall like the goblet, sticking it to the bat-head like I've shown you before in trimming might not work. A giffon-grip is an excellent tool to use for this purpose. It's just a wheel-head that sticks. It's got three little prongs, which you put directly on the head of the wheel itself. And then it's got these little pads, that go and they hold the piece on place. Now I've lost one but I'll find it in just a minute. And the way that it works, is you hold your wheel-head in place with one hand and then you can twist your giffon-grip, and there's a little spiral on the inside and these pieces move along that spiral. So these are always on thinner. So you can just take your cup to your goblet, which I have here that has set up, and once you have let it set up, you cut it off, and then we'll place this on the giffon-grip. And now we're ready to attach the stem.

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Pottery Tips on Giffen Grips

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