Finishing a Clay Pie Pan

Video Transcript

"So once this is set up to the leather hard state. Which means that you can rub your finger across it and not cause much movement of the clay but you can easily put your fingernail to make a mark in there, you're going to take your wire tool, hold it securely down on the bat. You want to push really hard and hold that wire really tight because the tendency of the wire is going to be to want to come up in the middle and that will cut thickness out of the bottom of your piece or even take a little bit out of the bottom of your piece and make a hole which is very bad. So I'm going to take my hard rib and just pry that bat off the wheel head. Flip this over. And I've used a larger bat here because the edge, the rim of this pie plate is actually a little wider than the small bat that I threw it on. So now I'm going to peel this off. Oops and it fell down a little bit. And what that means is that it is just a little bit too wet. And that's going to be okay though. Because when I flip it over I'll be able to fix that problem. So basically for cleaning the edge, because I made an undercut I don't even need a tool to do this. All I have to do is take a sponge and just clean up the bottom here. And so you see that sort of fell in a little bit but what you'll see is when I take the bat back and flip it over again. I can pull the walls a little bit and that will just let that bottom fall right back into place. And the pie plate is going to dry and then it will be done."