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Tools for Making Pottery Mugs
Centering Clay to Make Pottery Mugs
Wheel Wedging Clay to Make Pottery Mugs
Opening Clay on the Wheel to Make Pottery Mugs
Preventing Cracks in Pottery: Wheel Throwing Techniques
Pulling the Walls of a Pottery Mug: Wheel Throwing Techniques
Throwing Down on the Pottery Wheel
Forming the Rim of a Pottery Mug: Wheel Throwing Techniques
Forming Curves on a Pottery Mug: Wheel Throwing Techniques
Trimming a Pottery Mug
Removing a Pottery Mug from the Bat
Summary: Make sure the wire tool does not have any kinks when using it to remove a pot from the bat. Learn how to remove a pottery mug from the bat 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
"Okay so, now you've got your wire without any kinks ready to go. Potter's knife ready to go. Clean it up. Dry it up. The drier the bottom of this is, easier it's going to be to get off the bat. So take this wire tool here. Nice and tight. Going across the bottom and then off to the left. And get it. Once again your hands must be nice and clean and dry. Two fingers underneath the piece. Lift it up. And I can tell just by lifting this up, that it's perfect. I don't need to trim it. I don't need to do anything. I can see the true demonde in the bottom of it. An on to the ware board to repeat the process a dozen more times. Till we have a entire series of mugs. And then you just get into that production mode. And you just be pumping it out, pumping it out, pumping it out. And years down the road you do it with your eyes closed."
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