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Summary: Prep your clay tools for a ceramic herb planter to make the ceramics process easier. Learn how to get your tools ready 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 that we got our slab, we cut off our edges. Got a nice, just about the size that we want because this is going to be the bottom. So just take it, lift it off your canvas so it's not all stuck on there. Alright and since that's going to be the bottom, let's go and put our wear board down and set it right up there like that. Get our tools ready, right? Rubber rib, two natural sponges and our needle tool and our potter mitt. And we've got out water ready, we've got our water okay? Now we got all that set up, ready to go to the wheel. You want to make sure you're not coming back to your work table, you want to get everything you're going to need. And I almost forgot this, this is what we're going to use to make our lip really nice. And get this set up so when we're sitting down at the wheel, we don't have to keep coming back and forth to our work table. There we go."
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