Summary: Trimming the base of a large clay pot is an essential part of throwing a large clay pot. Trim the base of a large clay vessel on the pottery wheel using techniques 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
"I am going to go and clean this up again, since my dirty hand bumping up and down on it. So going, I will do that alright take your needle tool, get down on the wheel head, get rid of any of that stuff, pull it out. Pull it on out, out of the way, alright, that is looking good down there. Alright now that we have got all our little trim on our pot, the only thing left to do is to pick it up and transfer it over to here but yes that would be good. That is not to far away. So we are going to take the knife or we are going to take our wire tool and we are going to cut it and we are going to move it over here to the weigher board."