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A Detailed Guide to Making a Stoneware Bowl - Part Two

Florian Gadsby via YouTube

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This course provides a detailed guide to trimming a thrown stoneware bowl, including checking clay condition and thickness, handling trimming tools, shaping the foot, hollowing the foot well, and adding a maker’s mark.

Syllabus

- Introduction
- Explaining the trimming process
- Keeping the wheel head clean
- Trimming the inside of the form
- Checking the thickness of the bowl prior to turning it
- Centring the bowl ready for trimming
- Refining the groove around the rim
- Defining the outer boundary for the foot ring
- Discussing how to check if the clay is the right condition to trim
- Pushing down to keep the pot pinned in place
- How to hold trimming tools
- Adding stability by joining your thumbs together
- The trimming finally begins!
- Defining the foot region
- Hollowing out the foot well
- Stamping my maker's mark
- Talking about the tools I use

Taught by

Florian Gadsby

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