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Ceramic Flower Pot Finishing

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Summary: Finish off a ceramic flower pot by smoothing out fingerprints and adding aeration holes. Learn how to finish off a ceramic flower pot with tips from a master potter in this free ceramics video series.

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By Chris Cook
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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

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"Alright, now we've got that all these guys are joined. Just go, clean it up, get rid of any of those little bumps that might have happened along the way. Give it another one of these. Alright? I'm not going to get too crazy about making like, making sure that every little piece is perfect on this because it's just a flower plant, a flower pot. It's just going to have plants in it, let the plants do the, do all the work here. Because they'll be pretty sitting in here, this is just a, just a little accessory. So now that we've got it like that it's pretty much completed here. Get rid of any of these finger prints that have happened. And so you got these little handles, this is how it works. You can already see, once it's all fired up, and it's looking all good, it'll just go and it'll sit on someone's wall like that and the plants will be in there. You can put in, it'll help with aeration, just put in a little hole there and then maybe another little hole on this side. Keep nice healthy roots, we won't get any root rot. Water will be able to drain out of here. And since we're only going to fire at the bisque temperatures and not bring it any hotter, the clay will remain porous and it will be able to breathe, and that's why planters are made out of Terra Cotta a lot of times because it is a porous clay body. And there it is."

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