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Summary: Scratching the clay makes attaching a clay handle to a pot lid very easy. See how to attach clay handles to pot lids 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, we're going to make this just a little bit longer, a little bit thinner, then we'll be able to attach it to our piece; I'm happy with that. Take our needle tool here, cut off more than what we're going to use, because you can always take more off, let that set up for a just a little bit second, while you can clean your hands off so we can attach this real nice. So you want to take a look at it, see exactly where you think it should be on this pot, looking good, where it's at. Hands are nice and dry, you just go and scratch it here, scratch it there. This is wet enough to where we don't really need to attach or scratch it. Probably going to use about this much of it, I like to cut it at an angle, and you can just go, put it on like that, maybe make it do a little tilt like that, and that is just the little guy, it's a little accent, that makes this look kind of better than it did before. Then you can just go and take your tool here, and just kind of give it two little marks like that, out like that, and here we go, we got our little funky top, go and size it up here, see where we can put some accents on the side of this pot here."