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Summary: Place a spout hole in a ceramic olive oil bottle in a functional place that also makes sense for the overall design. Learn how to create a spout hole 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
"And now we're going to work on this olive oil bottle. You can take a look at it, it will start telling you where it wants the spout. And it's telling me right here where this, yeah right here, where this kind of funky little thing happened here. That's where they want it, that's where he's going to get it. So I'm going to take my larger spout here and just take a look. Oops, once again you're going to make sure you look at your hole there and make sure it's big enough because this could shrink up and then nothing will come out of it. So I look to see, yep, that's where she wants it. And go ahead and find that spot, just right at the base of the neck, go and make a hole. Just like that. Pull the clay out, clean it up just a little bit, no big deal, not going to see it. And if this spout was longer you could put it at the bottom here. Sometimes people make olive oil bottles and they'll make these really long spouts that come up and go like this. Kind of like these in the Japanese way. So what we're going to do is we're going to scratch and slip and we're going to attach this one."
eHow Article: Ceramic Olive Oil Bottle Spout Hole