Forming Curves on a Pottery Mug: Wheel Throwing Techniques

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"All right, now that we're getting towards the end of this piece, let's go ahead and give them a little wipe down. And this guy wipe down. I want everything to be nice and dry, all right. So you just take your rib, go right in there, just go right in, nice. Don't force it too much, just let it do it, it'll do its thing. All right. I got the desired curve that I'm looking for. Now since I did that I can tell that it kind of messed my rim up a little bit. So, I'm going to grab a little bit of water, go back, and really get on that guy, and there it is. I've got the belly I'm looking for, I've got the rim that I'm looking for, now I want to go by, I'm going to do some of that wheel trimming, so I don't have to trim this thing tomorrow. It's going to be trimmed on the wheel, and then we're going to put it up, let it set up, and we're going to throw a handle on it."