Jerry Marshall - Throwing and Trimming a Lidded Casserole at Chambers Pottery

something new and different already Jerry starts off throwing a casserole the same way that he throws anything else he centers a lump of clay on a bad deal with it and he opens it and just like everyone else occasionally he has to struggle with a piece of bad clay but he does pretty well with that so you love tense when you little down with pressure on that to keep them yeah then I I'm just being flat father we do it so we're just even an at the bottom we're just compressing the club racing decline do my first pole and just like almost everything else Jerry throws he does it in three basic polls the first poll is up the second poll is either up and out or out and up and the last poll is the shaping of making a rim without a flange or you're just going to make the flange later the flange okay [Music] yes now remember the main thing you want to keep in this is the fact that you want around the bottom and you're not wanna fly because it's upside-down ah [Music] and if you have a big round rib you could use it now make sure there is no flatness to the top take your measuring now you're gonna see Gerry use one of his secret weapons it's that pinky fingernail make sure not to cut them too short bring this looks right now a little secret that I don't tell very long after I pushed this thing out here and I'm going ride I'll come in here with my finger and I'll go down just a little bit [Music] gerri also really really likes to trim off of what he calls a wet chuck which is basically a centered mound of clay which is fairly dry and which has a little dip in the middle so that you can still feel the thickness of whatever you're trimming unfortunately Oh using a wet chuck allows jerry to remove his piece and easily recenter it without a hassle careful word because it changes the feeling of the trim tool against the climb we don't learn anything Oh say you use Big Bertha get over jerry uses an expired MetroCard to finish off the areas where he has trimmed he uses it with a little bit of water and he pushes the grog back into the clay so that the clay surface is very smooth and that the glaze will adhere to the surface after the piece is biscuit but Jerry's most interesting tools are his own fingers and watch how he finishes the rim of this ring later Jerry will attach the pull both to the lid and also to the sides of the casserole but meanwhile he uses his wet chuck to trim the bottom of the casserole as well [Music] being able to remove the pot while you're trimming and then recenter without an enormous effort really allows you to feel how thin or how thick the pot is this is thicker than most of Gerry's pots and he has to trim much higher up that the shoulder of the pot than usual [Music] so you cut with the curved end and then you flip it yeah often do this because it takes less less pressure to make a cut than if you do it flat you can see with it when it was higher I could just come in with this edge here like I could get it going like this but down here it's more difficult right so I just switch to it and when he gets the sides trimmed the way he wants it he starts cutting in the definition for the foot ring and starts hollowing out the the inside part pick up the rest of it that way you don't have to put along downward pressure on it and since he trimmed up that pot he's gonna be finishing it off with that MetroCard just to ensure a nice smooth surface and a perfectly glazed pot at the end [Music]

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Id: aCgbwZ4eg30

Length: 8min 19sec (499 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 19 2009