Ceramic Shoyu Bottle Throwing

Video Transcript

"Alright now we go this guy and we're ready to roll; go ahead bring it in there, find where the bottom is; start throwing, just pulling. When I throw off the hump I just squeeze; not much throwing going on, I mean I guess that's kind of throwing but not really. That's going up; liken it, find the bottom again; notice I don't keep dipping into my water bucket, it's a good thing to throw dry; the drier the better; I'm just using the slip on my fingers. So let's just bring it out for the belly; bring it in on the bottom, we're going to collar in the top because we're going to; it's going to get a cork stuck in it eventually, alright. There and I'm going to bring it in; I like collaring with this tool here it's nice, don't do too much you won't be able to pour your choei in there so I like the way it's going right there; I'm not even going to mess with that top right there, I'm not going to straighten it out; I like the way that it looks. So right there; what we did is establish the bottom, we collared the top; we put a flare in the belly and the belly becomes more flared, you can flare the belly a little bit and then when you collar it in; just because you're collaring it in it finishes the top of the flare so it's something to consider because when you go out it's hard to come back in, it's going to want to rip so just take that into consideration. And we've got our pot and we're going to take it off the wheel."