Trimming the Bottom of a Clay Flower Pot: Pottery Wheel Techniques

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"And the easiest way I've found, to get stuff off of the hump, is to first, trim it with your tool, and get rid of any extra clay here. Put your hand there as a guide. Because you can really, especially with these rounded bottoms ones, you can really do a lot of trimming on the wheel. So you don't have to do it later. So push down. Alright. It's getting pretty to close to where I want it. Just keep on removing clay. Just like that. If you have any clay that's starting to get in the way, take your tool, get it out of there. Alright. So it's pretty close. You can go in with your hand again. Guide it. Bring it down. And that's pretty much where I want to be. And now we're going to take our needle tool and get it out of there."