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Summary: Center a ceramic bowl onto a chuck to being trimming. Learn how to center a bowl on a clay chuck with tips from a master potter 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
"Alright now that we've got our little clay chuck down there. Hold this thing in place and it's centered. So as soon as you put your bowl on there it should be pretty close to the center. You might have to, so what I like to do is put my hands around it like this. And anywhere I feel that it's off centered, maybe you can just stop and then push it on center. But I almost like to, I just pushed it off center a whole bunch. I like to let it spin around in my hands and almost, almost like I'm throwing it again but that's centered enough for me. And a good way to see if your foots going to look nice is just drag your, drag your, your trim tool on it like that. Take a look at it. You know that you're going to have enough space to have your foot. It's not going to be too small here and really thick there, because that's what would happen if it was super off centered. So let's get this guy on there and we're going to start removing some clay."
eHow Article: Ceramic Bowl Chuck Centering