Video: Establishing the Bottom of a Large Clay Pot

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Establishing the bottom of a large clay pot on the pottery wheel requires boring the thumbs down in the clay. Establish the bottom of a large clay vessel using pottery wheel techniques in this free ceramics video.

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And we're going to start boring down with our thumbs, and with large pots, I only like to go about that far with my thumb, then I like to do this. That's just me though. I'll take my hand and what I'm doing is I'm pushing my left hand down into the middle and all the while I've got my thumb at the base of this pot letting my finger know how far to go down, all right. So, I think that's about as far down as I want to go. I want to double check myself with my needle tool. Perfect. And with bigger pots, you want to leave a thicker bottom--about that thick down there, which is good, because once I run my needle--once I run my tool over it, it's going to thin it down a little bit once I take the wire to it. So, now that I've established the bottom here, I'm going to go--I'm going to start making it--making the base of the pot.

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Establishing the Bottom of a Large Clay Pot

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