Pottery Salsa Bowl: Compressing Bottom

Video Transcript

"OK. This is where this more rigid kidney comes in; better than this, this other one. I like to take them, get it nice and wet so it doesn't chatter in the bottom of your; if it starts to chatter it's going to be difficult to fix that. Just start smashing. Kind of act like; like a jiggering arm here, that's what they do. They come down and they just smash the clay into place. Just like that. Do you hear it? You hear it moving. See, that's good. Not too much clay came off into the slop bucket. Come down, let's do it again. Flatten it out, right up into there. OK. Now that we can get this completely flat we'll be able to pull up our walls, cut it off the bat and then attach our bowls."