How to Make Pottery Pitcher Spouts: Part 3

Video Transcript

"And now I will pull this handle. I'm sorry not handle I?m going to pull the spout. I'm going to hold it like this with my fingers right there, I?ll turn it over to the camera a little bit more, like that and put this finger in there. Squeeze and then I?m going to stretch this out and that's why I need that rim thick. I could even do that a little bit more .I'm just going to play with that. Now notice I?m not touching the outside of it, meaning here, because that's going to disturb the way that looks. I'm not saying you can't touch it but for this particular pitcher that I?m making, I don't want to touch it. One of the things that happens sometimes is that pushes down a little bit so you just want to be careful of that. That's if it's gotten a little bit too thin or if it's just a little too soft and in my case I think it's a little soft. One of the other important things you want to do with the pitcher is make sure that this edge right here has a sharpness to it. I don't usually say to make anything sharp on your pots but this will help the liquid to be cut, you know, so you don't get that last little dripping part. That actually kind of cuts the liquid so it doesn?t drizzle down your pot. And that would be it, I could pick that up a little more right there, and then I could also just trim a little bit off the bottom right now with the knife. Because I?m not going to be able to flip that over so that's a good idea to do that at this point. And then again like if you feel like its too thick, especially as a beginner, the pitchers that beginners make are really kind of heavy so you could leave this on the wheel. Just like this and let it dry to leather hard and then actually take one of your metal trim tools later on and trim it a little bit more if you?re feeling like it's too heavy down there. So don't pull the wire through at this point if you plan on trimming it again later. You want to pull the wire through much later on but for me that's all done so I?m going to just pull my wire through, make my little zigzag pattern with my texture, and this part of the pitcher is done. When its leather hard I?ll attach a handle to it and pull it off and it'll be finished."