Now right before you start pulling the handle, you also want to go ahead and just put a tiny little score where the bottom of the handle is going to hit. That way when you smooth it in it will be sure to stick well. Now you're going to take this bowl and you're going to turn it up on end like this. You want to hold it over your water bucket, you've got to get this handle really wet, you want to have a lot of lubrication here, if you have any tension, you're going to pull this right off, or you're going to end up with an unevenly sized handle. So again, kind of like when we pulled the spout, patience, gentle pulling, with, sort of like milking a cow where the pressure needs to kind of roll down the piece, and more pressure at the top than at the bottom. I like to leave a nice ridge for where your thumb's going to rest. So as I'm pulling and bringing my hand around in all directions to make sure that it's nice and even, I'm also going to keep going back with my thumb and making that ridge prominent. It takes a little patience, a little time. And once you've got this to where it's about the thickness that you want it to be and the shape looks good to you, you're going to have a little bit of extra down here at the bottom, and that's normal, it's good, because we're going to pinch that off. It's not going to be a part of your handle. So now that you've got that done, you just take your batter bowl and set it down using your handle to support the edge, your hand to support the edge of that handle, and then bring it around, and pinch a little bit off if you got too much, and then just press it right in to the spot where you score it. And this gives you a handle that you can use for a batter bowl.
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