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Preparation of Clay for a Vase
Centering Clay on the Pottery Wheel
Opening Clay on the Pottery Wheel
Pulling Clay to Make Vase Walls: Part 1
Pulling Clay to Make Vase Walls: Part 2
Collaring a Clay Vase on the Pottery Wheel
Adding Form to a Clay Vase on the Pottery Wheel
Trimming a Clay Vase on the Pottery Wheel
Cutting under a Clay Vase on the Pottery Wheel
Altering a Clay Vase off the Pottery Wheel
Making Pottery Handles
Attaching Pottery Handles
Checking the Consistency of a Clay Vase
Summary: Pottery handles are great additions to ceramic cookie bowls and vases. Watch how to make pottery handles for clay bowls and vases 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 now we're going to make some handle on here and I'm thinking some big elaborate type of things going on. So I'm going to get my chunk of clay ready for making some handles; that's basically a little bit like that, something to hold onto up there and then all of this I'm going to pull into a handle; one big long handle that I'll cut into several pieces to make twp nice handles. So what I'm doing; I'm just squeezing it out like a bar of soap slipping through your hands and if you get something knobby on the bottom, get rid of it because it's going to mess you up. So just keep switching it around like this; turning it, switching it because the natural curve of your hand is going to make it to where it gets really thin on one side and thick on the other. There's another ball of clay getting in the way; get rid of it, alright. I'm going to take it put it down; run my fingers down it, o.k. So there; super long handle. Let that set up alright and then we'll come back, and bop it on there."
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