How to Open & Form the Clay on the Potter's Wheel

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Hi I'm Betty Ingham and I'm speaking today on behalf of Expert Village and then you have to open it up. To open it up put your 2 thumbs in and you make your hole. Now we got a pretty good size hole but it is going to be to thick at the bottom so you want to go down a little bit further and you want to bring it out a little bit more. So you have got the first part of it done but it is by no means finished. So now I'm going to slow the wheel down a bit and I'm going to start bringing up the sides. My husband and I we are educators for 32 years he was a super attendant and I was a band director and we decided when we retired that we wanted to do pottery as a hobby but we did want to do it unless we can build our on gas keel. Well we did that and all the materials that we started out with where so expensive that it has taken itself to quiet a business for the 2 of us. The way that we got started my husband took a course in college and he built a kick wheel and over the years it just kind of desinagrated and so we bought this electric keep which was about a 1000 dollars so it is quiet costly to get started in this hobby.

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