Ceramics & Pottery: How to Finish the Slab Bottom of a Coil Pot

Video Transcript

" Then if you want you can use a wooden tool to press the clay down and let us get some of the dry clay off there. Okay, I can take this wooden tool and press it into the pot this way and I can do it from the inside also. Some people like to let all of these marks show, but you can clean all of these marks off if you do it now, just by using my thumb, my fingers, I can smooth the clay off and keep working it until all those marks are gone. It will take a little bit of time to do it completely, but depending on whatever surface you want to end up with. Right now, would be a good time to put a texture into the clay. Also if you want to press something into it to make a border, say around the rim you can do that with let us see what I have here. Let me just use this, this is a butter paddle. I will make some texture. This looks good when you glaze the pot because the glaze takes texture in a different way than the rest of the pot. Let’s see how far off center this is and it is quite a bit off. So what I would do when this gets a little bit stiffer, you would set it up this way and you would cut this off so that it would set level. But this is the way you would start with it. So I am just going to go ahead and make a line here where I would cut it off. You can do this with a banding wheel or Lazy Susan even or your can just leave it the way that it is, roll this over. Okay, there. Okay, there."