Video: Ceramic Bowls: Drying Tips

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A drying rack for ceramic bowls is useful for drying multiple pieces. Learn drying tips when throwing a bowl from an artist in this free ceramics and pottery video.

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O.k. so we have thrown our set of bowls as you can see and I would like to talk briefly about drying tips, and what you're really looking for when you dry these out and prepare them to trim. Your concerns are going to be that the top is going to dry out too quickly with the bottom; you want this clay to dry out slowly and uniformly. So what I'm going to do is put it over here on a drying rack and as you can see this is nice because I can move the shelves up and down; I have an open sided rack here and that is because we're in Eugene, Oregon, and it is winter time and we don't need to worry so much about these things drying out too quickly because there's lots of moisture in the air; in the summertime when it's dry I've got a closed in cabinet with a door on the front that will seal nicely. When they're ready to trim because we drew that wire under there you should simply be able to; oop there it goes pop, the pot off the wheel and if it's not quite dry enough; with the bowl we can simply turn it over and place it back on the bat and leave it to dry like this so that the top will dry out. If we see that the top edges of our bowls are drying out too quickly we can simply drape some plastic over the top to allow the tops to dry out less and the bottom to dry out more; if we happen to come into the studio and notice that our, our; the bottoms of, of our bowls have dried out too much and we're not ready to trim yet you can simply take the plastic and put it around the bowl like this; and this will ensure that the base stays wet enough to trim. O.k. so as you can see we just popped this off of there so these are ready to trim; so next we're going to be taking those over to the wheel and trimming them and I will show you how to do that next.

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Ceramic Bowls: Drying Tips

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