Video: Clay Measuring Tips

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There are specific ways to measure clay to make matching plates. Learn tips on how this is done correctly from a clay expert here in this free video clip on pottery.

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Alright now we did our two bowls for our set of five, we're just going to put that over there. And we're going to work on, I'll show you how to make a plate set. But first, I want to be able to trim this piece today. Then I'll let it sit over night, it's nice and it's getting to be a little hard but it's still kind of tacky, you can hear it. But, I want to put it on my absorbent canvass work table here. We'll flip it upside down so the air will expose itself to this base here so I can just get in there, trim a foot on it. So we want to approach the plates at the same way that we did the bowl set. I'm going to use our tubal clay here. Now with plates, I like to use a little bit more clay, so you don't want to have a flimsy plate. So I'm going to use this. It's about four pounds a clay. I'm going to cut it right in half. For the two plates, I'm going to show you how to make. So we'll just take a little bit of clay from this one, about that much, just kind of slam it in there. Alright. So, they're about the same size. Actually, I'll take more off from this, let's put it over here. I'm not going to make gigantic plates, I want to go ahead and make a smaller ones. So those are the same size. So from here, we just want to get this guy centered and we'll take it from there.

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