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Summary: In order to make a set of ceramic bowls, measure the first bowl to be used for comparison. Learn to measure a bowl made by throwing clay from an artist in this free ceramics and pottery video.
Max Koetter is a multi talented artist currently living in northwest America. Koetter grew up in London, England where he learned how to use the ceramic wheel at an early age. He...read more
"Okay so now we're going to, I'm going to talk about how to measure this bowl so that we can make another one just like it. So the tools we need are these and they're just little calipers. You can adjust them for different heights and what we are going to do is measure this bowl. It actually is nice to measure heights I find on things like this so you've got two defined points and this is what we are going to do, we are just going to set it down and we'll get it at the right height. We kind of have to get down and look at it. And there we have it, there's the right height so now we are going to take this over here and make sure it is tight and it won't move and save that for the next part. And we are going to measure the width of the mouth part and there we have it. And we are going to save that over here and now we are ready to do the final things on this bowl before we move on to the next one. And I'll show you how to finish it up and prepare it for the next stage in our next clip."
eHow Article: Ceramic Bowls: Measuring the Bowl