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Summary: A potter can make holes for chopsticks in a clay noodle bowl by first measuring where they should be placed. See how to make holes for chopsticks in your ceramic noodle bowl 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
"Alright let's go ahead and put these holes in here. Now you don't want to go too low because this is going to have the volume of your soup and stuff in there. So go find the high part and the low part if there is one. There really isn't one on this one so I'm just going to go and poke right through there, pull it out. Poke it again right through there and then pull it out. I'm going to take this and pull it out. Nice clean holes. I'm not even going to mess with those. Okay. Smooth it out there. Take a gander at it. So yeah the tips of the chopsticks will definitely fit through there. Now at this point you take your tool, just line it up, no big deal you know. That's where that's going to be say, this is the other chopstick. They sit in there like that inside these holes like that. So you can just see how they look good. Make a mark where I'm going to cut these notches out so there is no mark. Right there. There's two nice marks. Pull these guys out and then we're ready to put some notches in the top here."
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