Ceramic Teapot Lid Hole Boring

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Part of the video series: Making a Ceramic Teapot

Summary: Boring a hole for a ceramic teapot lid involves careful measuring for a tight fit. Learn how to bore a hole for a teapot lid with expert tips from a master potter in this free ceramics video.

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By Chris Cook
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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

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"Now that we have got the amount of clay that we need kind of make it into a wider cylinder like that and let's pull away the clay that we're going to need for the lip of the lid, let's file this down, go down and try to get nice and elegant and I'm going to try to get some of this stuff off my hands. Go in there and bore out a little hole, pinch it and get it a little wet and bore it out, pinch it, just by doing that makes the lid, I mean just by doing that you have a lid. Let's go and measure it out, remember the inside walls of this pot go out that far, the outside walls of this lid need to do the same. Measure the inside and the outside. Now I am just holding and I know that I can get it a little bigger than that and that is the correct size for the pot right there. And I am going to show you how to shape it and try to get it off this wheel try to get it off with this amount of clay without having to do any trimming."