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Summary: Trim excess clay off of your ceramic herb planter with a needle tool. Learn how to trim a planter 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 we take our needle tool and at a nice angle, that coincides with the angle of the bottom that we put in there with the knife while it was on the wheel, we just want to follow it along, follow it all the way around. That, and then this, these guys should just come off, just like this. Yep, that's good. Alright, now that we've got that, put that aside, and we take a look at it, see where we're going with it. O.k., see what's going on here, see what's happening, I just want to get in there, we want to start really getting in to those little nooks and crannies in there and sealing it up. It's really important that this bottom, obviously, stays on this piece here. I'll show you how to get up there."
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