How to Cut Clay for Clay Eagle Sculpture

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"JORGE BENLLOCH: Now, we are going to start cutting the clay. First, we are going to make one flat slot that we are going to wrap against the structure and it's going to be the neck. In order to make even, we use this kind of little trick here. Oh, one thing very important that's a maestro trick is everytime that you play with clay, you have to do it on this kind of surface like a drop cloth or something like that that it absorbs the moist. That's very important. If not, it's going to be so--it's sticky, then it's going to stick on any surface. Then you are going to have problems. You are going to lose part of the clay and then you are going to have problems later to clean up. This is very important. And I forget initially to introduce you to that kind of support. That's very good when you put the base here, you can see what happen in all directions without you moving around the table. That's very important. That's a dollar in 99 Cents Store. It's very good one. Now, we are going to cut here on this slab. These two pieces of wood, they make this slab being consistent with the same size, same thickness. That's very important. And another one, this is important, mainly, if you have to put the later in the kiln because differences on the thickness they make later just kind of problems. Now, we are going to put these two pieces together. We are going to, like making like a welding thing here, both parts. Maybe we need another one. Yeah. There we go; another one. We weld these two. We're going to have a big piece to wrap. Now, this is going to be ready to form against the structure. That would be the next one."