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Summary: Finish off a ceramic beer stein by smoothing out fingerprints and score marks. Learn how to finish of a ceramic beer stein 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
"Now we have got our nice big beerstein handle, let's start working it in there like that. Take your tool here and start mending it in there like that. On the bottom here take your two fingers and just spread them out and remove any extra clay there, then you go back and use the end of your needle tool, put little holes in it and makes it look like it is faceted. Keeping this nice and round the whole time and you go in like that and you want to take what I have here just a little end of a manufactured sponge to do some cleanup with and get right in there anywhere there is a connection, any score marks you want to get rid of like that, get up on the top like this, there you go. If there is any weirdness going on up here, clean it up and there it is one beerstein."
eHow Article: Ceramic Beer Stein Finishing