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Double Walled Bowl Clay Support

Creating a support for the inner bowl of a double walled bowl is very important. Learn tips from a pottery expert on how this is done in this free video clip.

- How to Connect Two Clay Bowls

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So, now I'm going to go ahead and open down to a quarter of an inch in the center of this little pad that I've left in the middle. And, pull that towards my right hand with my left index finger. I want to check and make sure that the depth is appropriate. Again, about a quarter of an inch. And, once you're happy with that go ahead and take your right thumb and use it to push up and inward towards the left hand to raise that area up a little bit. Now, this is just going to support the base of the top bowl so that it doesn't sag when you're putting them together or when it's firing. And, you don't have to be very specific with the height of this. Because, you can cut it down a little bit if it's too tall whenever you go to put on the second bowl. You do want to make sure it's at least an inch, so that you've got something to work with there. And, now we can go ahead and make the outer walls of the outer bowl.

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Double Walled Bowl Clay Support

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