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Summary: Techniques and tips for attaching a coil bottom in a pottery project; learn this and more in this free arts and crafts video series taught by a pottery expert.
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About the Expert
Vincent Sansone Vincent Sansone is Director of the Ceramics department at Crealde School of Art in Winter Park, Fl. He holds a MFA in ceramic arts and teaches classes weekly... read more
I am going to stretch this a little bit more and one more time here. Okay, that should be enough more into fit over this hump. This is just a bisque fired piece of clay that is still absorbent, so all I have to do is lay this down on this slab, slab over this pot and I will push it down. I do not want any wrinkles in it so I have to kind of push all the way around and keep those wrinkles from happening. Now, this will be called a soft slab construction. You could use this mold either from the outside like this, which is called a hump mold or from the inside, which would be called a slump mold. Both are different ways of using the slab construction.
can you not just connect two pieces of plastic clay without slip?