Wheel Wedging Clay to Make Pottery Mugs

Video Transcript

"Now, now that we've got out model clay secured to the bottom. I'm going to go ahead and do some wheel wedging. Just get it a little wet, just all the way around. Press down. Let your fingers do all the work here. Now squeeze it in. When you squeeze it, let me show you, take my hands off and that's where we're at there. I'm just going to keep squeezing it. It just comes up. See I got this little funky thing going on right there, just squeeze it out of there. Wedge it out. Wedge it all out of there, bring it up again. Now you see how this is in real time, just go down, up, and down, and up, and that's with that karate chop thing, but it's all happened so fast, when you get into it. But here comes that karate chop, center it. All the while, I'm telling you this pinky move will save you from just so much trouble down here. I don't know why but there's always a wobble down on the bottom. You want to get that out with your pinky. You don't want your pinky to get caught in there, don't break it. Down, wheel wedge one more time. I'm not happy with how centered that is so I'm going to bring it up one more time, and there. So with the karate chop and the wheel wedge, and the center. It got me all to where I need to be right now."