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Ceramic Beer Stein Clay Wedging
Ceramic Beer Stein Clay Tube
Ceramic Beer Stein Tool Prep
Ceramic Beer Stein Clay Centering
Ceramic Beer Stein Wheel Wedging
Ceramic Beer Stein Wheel Cleaning
Ceramic Beer Stein Thumb Plunge
Ceramic Beer Stein Base
Ceramic Beer Stein Throwing
Ceramic Beer Stein Rib Tool
Ceramic Beer Stein Wheel Trimming
Ceramic Beer Stein Decoration
Ceramic Beer Stein Wheel Dismount
Ceramic Beer Stein Handle
Ceramic Beer Stein Handle Pulling
Ceramic Beer Stein Handle Thickness
Ceramic Beer Stein Handle Placement
Ceramic Beer Stein Handle Attachment
Ceramic Beer Stein Finishing
Summary: Use a thumb plunge technique for a ceramic beer stein to create a hole in the center of the clay. Learn the thumb plunge technique with tips from a master potter 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 now that we've got a nice clean wheel head here, this nice centered piece; just start doing a plunge. So you're going to take your thumbs; just plunge it down almost to the bottom and your using your pinkies till it's touching your thumbs letting it know when to stop, about there; I can tell. So what I'm doing here is I plunge down to the bottom and I'm taking my two thumbs, and using them against each other to create the side wall and then move them away; and just pull it out, I'm just pulling like that. And you go clean up the top; you grab some slip and just keep pulling it out. And now I've got the bottom, that's as big as I want my bottom of the; the beer stein to be, you just kind of go flatten it down like that; alright."
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