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Summary: Removing your pot from the wheel, proper technique; learn this and more in this free arts and crafts video series taught by a pottery expert.
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Questions & AnswersOn behalf of expertvillage.com, I'm Mark Coy. We've pretty much finished our pot. It's all nice and shaped, cleaned up, trimmed and we are ready to put it on the shelf. But before we pull the vat off the wheel, then we want to take this string, our wonder string from the beginning, and we want to hold it tight; get it so we've got it good and tight. Get our thumbs on there. We want to just start the wheel spinning just slowly and you have to be careful that you just concentrating on pulling that towards you and keeping your thumbs down on the wheel and our pot jumped loose on us so we are just going to finish it off by wiggling it through, cutting it loose. Cleaning our string off so that it is ready for the next time and the wonderful thing about the vat is that the reason we use them and don't just throw it on the wheel head is that now we can take our pot off and put it on the shelf to dry and someone else can throw or we can throw another pot with another vat because it is very very delicate at this point.
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