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Summary: Trim the bottom of a ceramic flower pot to clean up the bottom edge. Learn how to trim a flower pot with tips from a master potter in this free ceramics video series.
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, if we've got any deco that we need to do on it, we'll do it now while it's on the wheel. We just go in, just like that real simply, just like that, it's just a flower pot, so just some of that right there. Yes, yes maybe. One, two, three, four, five, six, and then and come in on the bottom and do a little trimming off the hump there. See, now as that happens that could be a problem. So let's see if we can get this clay, if this happens it's bad. So you want to keep this clay off of there. Just going to be a problem, so go in very carefully with your potter's knife and flatten that all out of the way. Alright? Now that's out of the way, you can grab this tool here, it works great. I'm just get it out of the way just so it's not interfering with anything that we need to do. Stop that problem before it even occurs."
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