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Pounding the Clay Into a Ball
Using a Pottery Wheel & the Bat
Centering the Clay Tips
Starting the Opening a Pottery Wheel
Widening the Opening
Shaping the Pot
Trimming the Excess
Removing the Pot From the Wheel
Add a Handle to Your Pottery
Using a Pottery Wheel & Greenware Stage
Using a Pottery Wheel & the Bisqueware Stage
Painting the Pot Tips
Clay Tools for Pottery
Using an Electric Kiln for Pottery
Pottery Kiln Tools & Tips
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Summary: Learn some tips for widening your starting hole on your pottery wheel project in this free arts and crafts video series taught by a pottery expert.
"I'm Mark Coy. Then I stick a couple of fingers down in there on my left hand, open that hole up a little bit more and then I like to keep my left and right hand working together. So I put them together like that stabilizing, keeping my elbows in tight and I just start pulling up. What I want to do, I'm making a bowl or if I'm making a vase, a tall pot, a short pot. What I want to start with is a nice consistent cylinder that the wall thicknesses are all the same and so I just want to pull it straight up even if its going to be a big bowl at the end. I want to start out and see how I take that finger and lay it across the top. That helps me keep that lip from getting squished, pinched and thin and thinking that my pot is really thin cause it's not. It's still pretty thick. Once I get up here a ways, I'm just going to kick the speed of the wheel down a little bit but not too slow because I don't want to end up with rib spirals like cork screws cause I still want to try to move fairly quickly. Just pull that right up."
eHow Article: Widening the Opening
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