Free-Form Teapot: Collaring & Removing a Spout

Video Transcript

"OK, now that we've got it here, go in, check it for the thickness again. It's thin enough. You can tell. It almost fell apart. Go in, collar it with your fingers and it pulls off, not a problem because we just want this little bit down here anyway. So go ahead and take the end of your needle tool. It's a pretty good tool to use for this. Just start throwing it up your needle tool. The needle tool will keep it from getting too small in there. And you want it almost as wide as your needle tool because you're going to lose, you're just going to get some shrinkage when it hits the temperatures we're going to with these pots. It should be about 2300 degrees Fahrenheit in the stoneware. And you just throw it up and then let's bring a little razzle dazzle to it and then we just take it right off the hump like that. There we go, we have our spout, and it's perfect the way it bends up like that because that's how I wanted it to go in the front here."