Pottery Salsa Bowl: Hand Plunge

Video Transcript

"Alright, now we've got to this stage, we just want to start really thinking about how we much, how wide we're going to need this, alright? Oops, you see? These want to get off center really bad once you get like this wide, you just got to keep it in control. Shove it around, show it who's boss, do whatever you've got to do. And then you take your hand and you plunge it down like that and that forms the beginning of our, we're going to start making a hole in here. I'm taking my hands and I'm pushing my other hand into it. And I'm using the slop and I want to make this bowl with enough, with enough weight on the bottom to where we can trim it up nice, which is perfect right there. So what we want to do is have about that much space between how much clay we have in the middle and the wheel head, is that thick. Perfect."