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Summary: Create a neck for a ceramic olive oil bottle by pulling up clay from the top of the piece. Learn how to create a bottle neck with tips from a master potter in this free ceramics video.
Chris Cook received a BFA in ceramics and sculpture from Southern Oregon University where he studied raku, studio ceramics, stoneware, and various firing techniques under Jim Romberg....read more
"All right so now I've got my bottle. I like the body a lot. I like the way it looks. I can tell it's going to be beautiful once it get fired. It's beautiful right now but once it gets fired it's going to be even better. So what I want to do. I want to do something with the top of this thing. So I got this clay up here and I might as well use it and sense that's got a lot of wobble in it. I not too happy with it I am going to go ahead and cut that off. Yea! That looks pretty nice but I want to do something else with it. Let’s bring it in, bring it in and bring it up. OK, it's like an old whiskey bottle or something. All right I'm going to clean up the top like that and there's an olive oil bottle."
eHow Article: Ceramic Olive Oil Bottle Neck