Summary: Leave clay salsa bowl on pottery wheel when trimming it. Trim a salsa pottery bowl by using the tips in this free pottery lesson from a ceramics expert.
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
"Okay, so now that we've got that, here you want to come down and do some wheel trimming because we don't want to trim these we just want to stick them on a bowl, alright got that wheel trimmed. Now, I want to go before I take it off of here, I want to give it some razzle dazzle one. I purposely left a bunch of clay up here so I can do that three and you just take your tool be so careful and bring these lips down, alright. So, I didn't take it off of the hump because I wanted to leave it on there so I can go back and do that so there's one of our funky little bowls. Now, I'm going to show how to take it off of the hump with a needle tool put it right there."