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Summary: Trimming the excess on your pottery wheel project; learn this and more in this free arts and crafts video series taught by a pottery expert.

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Using a Pottery Wheel: Trimming the Excess

On behalf of expertvillage.com, I'm Mark Coy. We've shaped our pot, we've got this nice full bodied vase. This is what we call a wooden knife being made out of wood and such. What I am going to do is down here I just have a little excess clay so I am going to use that and scrape that away. Then I am going to trim the bottom with the knife. Again I am holding steady, bracing my whole hand. My elbows are in and I just bring that up against it. We are working on the right side here. The clay is working past my tool and that is why we have been working with our hands too. It is working through our hands and past our tools. Instead of this way where it would be running in and jamming into things and tearing up our pot and causing all kinds of bad things to happen, you want to work on the left hand side and I've got to smooth that out. Got just a little bit of a line still there. The neat thing about this one tool is there are a lot of tools that you can buy, is that we can use it on both ends. I am going to put a little mark right here and I just rotate it. I can make it thinner but give it a little bit of a line in the pot right there. I can use the sharper end. I can cut the design just moving it up and down in one place. I can give it a nice little zig zag, right there above that. Okay, now this is a needle tool and sometimes when you are first beginning you are not completed centered. Sometimes your top will be out of whack and not completely flat. You can use this again holding it steady. You can use this to trim. I am just going to show you a little bit here right at the very top. I'll just pull this up a little bit to give it a little bit to trim on. You can just hold this and poke it into the clay and take and trim and if you had a pot that had an uneven top or had a problem, then you could just trim it right off like that and it would be perfectly flat even if the pot was a little bit out of whack, it would give it a nice straight top.

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