Video: Ceramic Toad Home Dome Torching

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Torching a ceramic toad home dome is necessary to be able to move it from the wheel. Learn how to torch a ceramic piece with expertise from a professional potter in this free ceramics video.

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The torch can be your friend when you're trying to get something on the wheel to the next stage so that you can do your next step. What I do, I keep a tool near me because my hands are too dirty to turn this knob, and my self starter is broken so I have a lighter nearby. You turn the wheel and hold the flame to the pot and let it turn. This way no part of the pot gets flame for too long. If you hold the flame for too long in one place it would crack the clay or make the water inside the clay actually boil and explode. You don't want that. As I torch this piece the air inside is going to expand a little bit as it gets hotter and it's going to make this dome a little bit tighter and I don't want that to happen for too long. So after I've torched this piece for thirty seconds or so and gotten it a little bit firmer you want to make sure that you take your needle tool, which I have right here, and poke a little hole so that the steam can escape.

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Ceramic Toad Home Dome Torching

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