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Summary: A small handle is more a decorative item on a teapot. Learn how to make a small teapot handle with tips from a master potter in this free ceramics video.
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
"So we're going to make a really tiny little handle type of thing more of a, it will act like a handle but it is more of a decorative thing so let's make it really small and skinny, as skinny as you can make it like this without losing any integrity so just whipping it down like this, just milking the clay, milking it, there. Once again get down to a point like that where there is a little mud around the end and then get rid of it it doesn't need to be there. Maybe use your knuckles down there like that and then we have this bit of clay to work with and we can make it real pretty on top of here, put it here like that on the table, clean up your hands and we'll get ready to put this on there."