Forming the Rim of a Pottery Mug: Wheel Throwing Techniques

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"Okay, now you can see we're getting to where we want to go. I can see in my head what this is going to look like when I'm done with it. You want to know exactly what it's going to look like when you're done with it, you don't want it to just end up how it is, so you want to think ahead, put the clay, place the clay in the right spots and be very intentional about what you do. So I'm just putting a little water in there, just a tiny bit, the tiniest little bit just so I don't have any stick. I'm going to take one last pull from the bottom, and by taking that pull from the bottom you can see I'm just stretching it out with my fingers, and here comes that big belly I was talking about, and I'm able to put that big belly in there because I left the clay there. Now...I got the desired belly. What I want to do is I want to lift up this rim cause I'm not too happy with this rim right now. I'll take it and lift it up a little bit, I'll take my needle tool, do one of these, wait until I feel my finger, there it is, pull it up, done. Take this guy again and make the lip really nice. So that, I gotta say, where people's mouth goes. All right. So there's the rim. Done deal. And now I'm going to show you how to put a little curve in this guy, so when we put the handle on him, it's going to look real sharp, with somewhere for the people to put their fingers. I'm just going to just put a little flare in there."