Shaping Clay for Making Clay Bowls

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Kevin on behalf of ExpertVillage.com our next step is to shape our bowl. Unless you think that's good enough then we'll stop. But, I think we should shape it some more. Now you can use finger tips to shape our bowl, and again you got to get it wet, or we can use our tools. I want to show you this tool, a CD a regular old CD, it's nice and perfectly round. I like to use this because it has a hole in it and I can stick my finger in there and hold it. How I'm going to do this is I'm going to start in the center of my pot and come down here like this. I'm going to slowly press it off to the side, got to get it wet a little bit. You can see how the CD is just perfectly round, how well that works. I'm going to press till the whole CD is pressing down there where I want it to press actually. Slowly bring the tool up, up to the top and I'm pressing out a little bit, till the whole thing hits. Slowly back away, I'm not going to keep coming up like this, I'm going to back away, this way. Clean my tool off. Take a look at it. Can't see very well, so I'm going to take the water, take the water out of it again. Look how much that has changed. Here's what I'm going to do, here's a little step for you to clean that lip off again, just take your sponge gently go around your piece like that, take some of that little clay off there and while you're at it just clean that wheel off again. So now that bowl is just perfectly round, the bottom is like that."