Now
that the walls of the pot have been pulled up and roughly shaped, it's time to
go through a series of finishing procedures in order for the thrown vessel to
be lifted neatly away from the wheel. There isn’t only one way to do this, and
in this tutorial, I’ll show you various techniques together with when to
utilize certain ones, what works best for me, and all manner of other tips and
tricks.
11.1 The next
method is throwing on batts. This is when instead of throwing on the metal of
the wheel head, you instead throw on these platforms.
11.2 After the
pots have been thrown, instead of lifting the pot away itself, you can lift
away the pot on the batt, and that way, you don’t actually touch the freshly
thrown and very soft vessel when you lift it away.
11.3 I have a
variety of different sizes of batts for different shapes, and typically, I only
use them if the pot is wider than it is tall or if it’s a shape that’s
particularly complex, like the body of one of my angular teapots.
11.4 First, in
order for the batt to be attached to the wheel, I need to throw a pad of clay
onto which the MDF boards can be attached.
11.5 To make
these, I make sure I’m using well-wedged clay and center it thoroughly, as I
don’t want this pad of clay to be uneven; otherwise, the throwing batt I attach
on top of it will also be uneven.
11.6 I center the
lump of clay and squash it down with the aim of creating a disc that’s about a
centimeter thick.
11.7 How wide
this disc is depends, of course, on the size of the batt you’re using.
11.8 I then
scrape clean the slip on top, pressing it down and keeping it nice and flat.
11.9 I also bevel
the edge just for neatness’ sake and give the top one last pass over with my
metal kidney to scrape away all the slip.
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