Ceramic Charger Plate Lip Formation

Video Transcript

"So, what we want to do now, before we do anything else to the top of this, we want to get this bottom sorted out, because we're not going back there once we do the last move, and you'll see why. So, I got my potter's knife underneath it, too, like that again. And I go underneath it one more time. Get up there nice and clean. OK? Put your finger on there. Get rid of all that extra clay there. Just take your potter's knife all the way down to the bottom, just like that. All the way down. I'm going to take a needle tool again. Put it right on the back. Right on the back. Spin it around, and then hopefully this comes off in one big thing. It's real nice. It's not going to do that. Come here. OK. A little bit of wheel trimming to get it out of the way. I want to trim that off tomorrow. OK? So, that's done. It's all evened out. Now, we're going to go, take the potter's knife from the wheel. You're going to put a lip on it, just like this. Just like that, OK? There it is. You don't want it to go vertical, you want it to be up a little bit like that. Because, when you go to fire it, it's going to want to go like. It's going to want to bend and it could flop like that because of the temperatures. And this rim, this technique here, the way that it has this flat top here, this binds this whole plate together so it won't warp. It won't crack. No matter whether you're making a charger, a platter, a dinner plate, a sushi dish, whatever, I suggest always putting these type of lips on there. And then, you can go and do some design work."