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Connecting a Clay Vase Base

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Summary: After creating and scoring a bottom for a clay vase the next step is to attach it to the vase itself. Learn how to quickly and easily attach a base to your clay vase from a clay pottery expert in this free video clip.

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By Emily Owen
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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

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icarus1 said

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on 8/2/2008 Great vase.Good tuition.Thank you.

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"So now that everything is really well scored, I'm going to set this back on and just firmly but gently press that into it. And now we'll go ahead and cut, but I'm going to leave a little bit of extra clay around the whole thing. The reason that I've left a little bit of extra clay is because I can use that clay to smooth up into the base of the vase part so that I know that I have a really secure connection, and that no water is going to leak out of the bottom of this when I put water in it to make it a flower vase. And once you've got that smoothed in, just give it your final shape, whatever you want that to be. I kind of want a little bit of a curve. I want it to have an organic feel to it. And then take your sponge, and smooth out those sharp edges from where you cut these tubes. And once you've got that done, this piece is ready to dry and it's complete."

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