Making a Clay Plate Rim

Video Transcript

"Now that we've got our groove right there? What you want to do. Clean your hands. Get the majority of the slop off. Save it over here for later. Grab your sponge. Like I said I like to use my split rim sponge whenever I'm making anything with a rim that matters like a bowl or plate or cup. Go ahead and go put it on the rim. What I'm doing right now is pressing my index finger down into this mass of clay. And when I press it down in there I'm squeezing the bottom with my thumb. That's making it go up like this and all the while I'm pressing down with this. So I'm kind of just pinching it and pushing down. And that makes the clay rise. It also makes the rim jump up into my sponge here and I'm compressing that rim down so we don't run into any cracks along the way when we're firing it. So from here we're going to compress the rim. And when we come back we're going to make this bottom nice and plate like. We're going to finish it off."