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Summary: Smooth out fingerprints from a ceramic herb planter using sponges and rib tools. Learn how to smooth out a ceramic piece 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 what you can do too, right now is a good time to do it since it's kind of stuck to the board, as you can tell, just go ahead and take this tool here, go around the bottom and this will establish your base and this makes it look nice. Go around the base, cleaning it up with this guy and since I see these fingerprints here, not crucial I get rid of them right now, but they're bugging me. So I'm going to get rid of them. You can save it to the end, but make sure you get rid of them by the end point, and those are just going to be there anyway because the way we took it off the wheel is kind of brutish. But, I knew I'd come back and do that anyway. So, it's good. Alright, now, it's nice and cleaned up. I don't want to do anything else to it when it comes to that department, but here, since it's a little herb, little herb pot, I want to put some handles right there. You can like transfer it around you know."
eHow Article: Ceramic Herb Planter Smoothing