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Ceramic Charger Plate Clay Maintenance

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Summary: Maintaining your clay properly after making a ceramic charger plate ensures it will stay moist and pliable for future projects. Find out how more about clay maintenance with tips from a master potter in this free ceramics video.

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By Chris Cook
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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

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"Alright, so the last thing that you want to do after you clean up is make sure that all your clays are secured. Even the little bittiest, little littlest, tiniest bit of air get in your bag dry up your clay before you know it. And once you've got a, you know, you know, twenty five pound brick of rock solid clay, you're going to be bumming. So go ahead and give it a knot, twisted tie, just keep them clay fills away. Alright. And then, most importantly, you don't want the work that you going to come back the next day and trim to dry out. So I got my pieces here, I'm going to trim them tomorrow. I'm going to go ahead and take this plastic bag, make sure we get them on the ware board, see how this ware board comes in handy. And hold it right there, make sure that it gets covered top to bottom, you can't just lay it over like that, that's not going to work. So, instead of making that mistake, let's go ahead cover the whole thing up. Be careful when you put it in there that doesn't fault the ware and disturb the lid. Be nice and careful, take your time, get it over all the ware, tear it down in the bottom, tuck it in. There we go, that's all, tuck in for the night. It's going to set up real nice, when we come back tomorrow we'll take it out, we'll let it rest up, flip it upside down, I'm going to make some more stuff, come back check it, make some more stuff. When it's ready, we're going to trim. It's going to be fun cause trimming is fun."

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