Wheel Wedging for a Ceramic Charger Plate

Video Transcript

"OK, we will get down and we will do some wheel wedging. Now wheel wedging is a technique that you do to insure any inconsistency's are eliminated and that it's also something that centerers the clay. So you get two for the price of one. Your centering the clay and your removing any inconsistency's that may be hiding in the inside of this wad of clay and that is what you go ahead and you take little bits of clay and you put it over here to dry out and reuse. You get all the way down to the bottom with your pinkies pull that piece of clay up all the way to the top. Alright I didn't hear any air bubbles or anything I am going to keep on coming down and with these chargers or any flatware anything that is flat across back compression, compression, compression because it will warp it will crack and there is a reason why plate sets cost two hundred dollars a set. So now that we got our wheel wedging done we are going to center and I just centered by locking my arm here and a little bit of this arm here but mostly it's locked there and I am actually using the force of my body and slightly pushing it in. So I am not working my arms or anything I am just kind of using my body to make sure that that is nice and centered."