Santa Fe Style Pot Clay Compression

Video Transcript

"From here you want to start boring out with our thumbs; what I'm doing, I'm coming down and I'm pressing it out. And what that does; we're going to go and establish how thick we want it down on the bottom and then my pinky's letting my thumbs know that that's about as far as I want to go. Take your needle tool; no matter how cool you are you can always go by and double check yourself; sometimes your wrong like I was, I can go down a little bit further. So let's; you don't want to go down to far and you don't want a paper thin bottom, I'll check it; yep that's good. Alright so what I'm doing here; I'm just compressing the bottom to ensure I don't get any S cracks, so that is important when you're throwing off of a bat but when you; as opposed to throwing off of the hump you know you have to keep compressing, alright. So what I'm doing here is just squeezing it in; centering it all up, it wants to get off center but I'm not it. I'm just squeezing it and then flattening the bottom so I've establishing the bottom; the side walls and now we're ready to rip it up, bring it in."