Kettle-Style Pottery: Preparing Clay for Extruder

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Part of the video series: How to Make a Pottery Tea Set

Summary: An extruder is a pottery tool used to squeeze out a consistent long piece of clay in various shapes. Learn to use an extruder to make a handle for a kettle-style pottery teapot with tips from a pottery expert in this free craft video.

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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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"So for that kettle style teapot's handle I need a coil that I'm going to extrude, and I'm going to use the extruder because I want the coil to be very even, I don't want there to be any inconsistency in it. What an extruder is, it's basically a giant Play-Do factory, and it squeezes out a really consistent long piece of clay, in whatever shape you've chosen. So I'm going to prepare the clay for the extruder. My extruder has a four inch round tube, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to cut a square, a long rectangular piece of clay, and then I'm going to need to even out these corners, I'm just going to hit it against the table. And once the corners are rounded a little bit I can pat this out. I want this piece of clay to be more narrow than the four inch interior of my extruder, so that it'll slip into that shaft really easily. So now that I've got my clay prepared I'm going to take it to the extruder and extrude some coils."