Shaping a Clay Flower Pot on the Pottery Wheel

Video Transcript

"Alright now we got some; kit in, kind of the shape that I'm looking for but it's going to be a planter so I want it to come out about a fair amount like that and all I was doing was just pulling towards me; and you can stop there if you want or you can go back with your rib, just start charging it down like that and what's that doing right now for me is giving it a nice shape; cleaning out the inside and getting rid of any slip that may be on it, drying it out real good; dry it out here too, remove all that slip and them we back get the rim nice and straight; you can do that by just taking a wet sponge, I've got mine slid down aside so you can just lay it right there on there; there we go. Now we're ready to get this off of the hump."