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Summary: To fix the chatter for a ceramic charger plate, keep a steady hand and work slowly. Learn more about chatter fixing 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 we're going to want to, you can see the way it looks; it's got a funky little thing going on there, a funky little thing going on there but everything else is alright. Like that's totally fine too. But we want to start making it look like how it's going to be when it comes out of the kiln. So this is the part where you really just got to know when to stop; how it feels because this needs to be as flat as possible. And you don't want it to chatter because it'll start chattering, you want to have the right amount of water and flip on it at this point to make it nice and smooth; like that. And then what we're going to do now, we're going to put that little chittermia on there because that's the only thing you're really going to be able to see on this. I'll go, give it a little wooo; yep. That looks hand thrown to me. And a little fix that up. And the last part's the funnest."