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Pottery Tools
How to Wedge Clay
Preparing Clay for the Potter's Wheel
Centering Clay on the Potter's Wheel
Opening Clay on the Potter's Wheel
Pulling Clay on the Potter's Wheel
How to Make a Ceramic Mug
Preparing Clay for Throwing Off the Hump
Throwing Off the Hump
Preparing Clay for the Extruder
What is a Clay Extruder?
Using a Clay Extruder
Attaching a Handle to a Clay Mug
Preparing a Lug for a Clay Handle
Attaching a Pulled Handle to a Clay Mug
How to Pull a Handle on a Clay Mug
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Summary: Every ceramic mug needs a handle. Learn how to attach a clay handle to a clay mug in this free video.
Emily Owen was born and raised in Austin, Texas. Owen earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and a bachelor's of Science from the University of Texas in Austin with a total of 180 hours...read more
"Okay now, one way, like I said, of doing handles on mugs is an extruded handle. I've cut a little piece of that extruded length that I made. You take it. You usually want to get your sponge and just wipe it down a little bit. Make it nice and smooth. Take one of your mugs that you've made. This is a really good time to go ahead and clean up the bottom of the mug. And either write your name in it or make your mark with a stamp. And the next thing you want to do is go ahead and score the side of the mug where your top of your handle's going to be. Get it nice and goopy. And then score where the bottom of the mug handle's going to go. And then do the same thing on the handle itself. Score the outside of the top and the inside of the bottom. The reason for that is because you're going to put it on this way. Just press it into the body of the mug. Hold the handle at the top of it so that this part stays nice and round and then press the bottom in. And then you can just smooth that in with your fingers and your sponge until it's reached the level of smoothness that you like. Some potters like to just mash it on and leave it and others like me like to get it smooth looking like it's incorporated into the body of the piece itself. And then, once you've got it on there, you just shape it. And there we go. We have a mug with a handle."
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