Clay Handle Forming Tips

Video Transcript

"Alright, now that we got it to this point here, you want to make it to where you can hold onto it real good, like that. Get it wet real nice. I can tell this isn't a very big mug so we're going to put a nice fat, squat handle on it because it's a nice, squat mug. So here's the part where it really comes in. You just keep going, keep going, you see it's starting to look like a handle. What I like to do, kind of like the thrower's line, is put a couple knuckles down the middle. Put a couple knuckles down there, gives it a little ridge, let's people know you were there. So again, flat, flat, flat, nice and thin. And you want to make it longer than what you're going to actually need because you're going to be cutting it off. You can always take more off but you can't put more on, so it's good to take it, make it longer than you think. Cut it far back on the piece like this on an angle to where it's like that, and what you want to do, is set it real nicely down on your work table, let it set up."