Adding Coils When Making Pottery

Video Transcript

" Hi! This is Roy Stringfellow for expertvillage.com. What we’re going to do now is add coils to our coil pot and start building it up in this way. The first thing that we’re going to do is take our scoring tool and take the coils that we’ve already have placed here and score the top toward the inside or the very tip top of the coils. That’s real simple, it’s just simply scratching the top of these coils to where it looks something like this. Then what we’ll do is take a brush, or a little hot dog thing, and brush along the top of this with the slip that we’ve made. The little hot dog thing works a little bit better. Just kind of gum it on there; it doesn’t have to look neat at all. In fact, you may not want it to be neat. If you’re a neat freak, you’re not going to want to be doing this. When we’re done we have the top slipping out and kind of like that. The next thing we do then is obviously; make us another coil to add to the top of that. You can kind of make any kind of length that you want there, whatever you feel comfortable with. Again, you pinch the top part of that and all you do is go back in here and lay that coil on top of those that are already in there like that. Then we continue winding this basically like this all the way around this pot to where it gets to the place that we’re going to have to go back in here and score this end a little bit. Add a little slip to it like this and then when we place this over it, we’re going to pinch the end to where it fits over and will receive the next layer of coil. "