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Summary: A salt cellar bowl must have a hole in it to pour the salt out of and to ventilate. Learn these tips from a clay pottery expert in this free video clip.
Emily Owen was born and raised in Austin, Texas. Owen earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and a bachelor's of Science from the University of Texas in Austin with a total of 180 hours...read more
"So once you've got the piece torched, or you've let it dry naturally, either way, you can take your wire tool, hold it against the wheel head and pull that right through. It's important to keep the wire very close so that you don't cut the bottom off the piece now you want to gently cut this form with both hands and tilt, either way, whatever you're most comfortable with. And once you've tilted it, it'll come right off and you can set it somewhere else to dry and to finish it. Now the way that I cut the hole, for myself is with one of these hole cutter tools. It's basically a pipe that's been cut at an angle so that you end up with a perfect circle, but it gives you a nice cutting surface. The way these work is you just take it and push it into the pot. I like to spin it as I go just to make sure that I don't push in too much on that wall. And then just take your finger and smooth off the edge there, and then you can put your sponge and give it a little more smoothing. You don't want that to be a sharp edge or the glaze will pull away from it. And that's a completed salt cellar. And you just put a cork in it once it's glazed."
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