Trimming a Pottery Mug

Video Transcript

"All right, so, you want to once, use this part of the potter's knife, get down on that, remove it, and I'm using it like this, so when the piece goes by, it's just kind of stuffing it under there so it doesn't get caught up on the piece itself. And you come in, you can put your hand in there to get a good feel of what's going on, just to give a reference. But I just use this part here and put it down on the bottom of the vessel here, and it created a foot. So what I need to do now is take this needle tool and there's, you can see all this stuff on the bottom of the thing that I trimmed off, that needs to go, you don't want that anywhere near your piece. So you take your needle tool, you run it across the bottom of the bat, you make a cut on what you just ran across, and then you pull it off and hopefully it just comes off, sometimes it doesn't, but if you're just real gentle and patient, you can get it all off without that being connected to your pot or having to trim this off the next day, cause that would just be a waste of time. So now that we've got the bottom where we want it, we're going to dry it up a little bit more with the potter's knife, and do a transfer to the ware board."