Video: Removing Wax from Clay Pottery

When waxing clay pottery sometimes it gets on areas where you do not want it. Learn how to remove it from those areas in this free video clip from a clay expert.

Video Transcript

Okay, if you ever get wax where you don't want it, unfortunately there's only one, quick way to remove it. The slow way is to send this entire piece back through the bisk kiln. The wax will burn completely off and you'll have a fresh start. But if you want to do it in the same day, you've got to take a thin, metal rib. You want to hold this in your hand so that it has a curved edge, and you want to hold it pretty tightly. But you want to be careful when you start scraping, not to push it into your palm because you can cut yourself if you're not careful. So you take this curved edge and you literally cut some of the bisk ware away, because this wax has permeated the top layer of this bisk ware, bisk ware. So this is the only way to get it off. It sounds horrible. It's like fingernails on a chalk board, but it works. And then, once you've gotten all the wax, which you can usually see the wax pretty well. It will usually be darker than the rest of your bisk. Once you've gotten all that off, you can just take a little piece of sand paper and smooth over the area were you've scraped so that you're not left with lines gouged through your piece.

Removing Wax from Clay Pottery

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