Prep
This will keep you from getting scalped by the wheel mechanism.
What is a hair tie?
Put your elbows against your body.
How should you position your arms when throwing?
Right in the center of the bat.
Where do you put your ball of clay?
The top of your lump of clay needs to be like this in order to make the hole.
What is flat?
Only the liquid water from your bucket.
What do you pour down the sink?
What is an apron?
Directly above the center of the wheel.
Where should your head be positioned in relation to your wheel?
The shape should your clay be in order to start centering.
What is a perfect "snowball?"
Even, flat, and about a half inch thick.
What should the floor of the piece be like?
Only the lumpy sludge at the bottom of your bucket.
What goes into the bilge bucket?
In order to keep air from getting trapped under your clay when you throw it onto the bat.
Why do you form your clay into a ball after wedging it?
To lock the splash pan and keep it from wobbling.
Why do you turn the splash pan counter clockwise?
Using your hands to squeeze the clay into a tall form and then pushing it back down.
What is coning up and coning down?
By keeping your outside fingers a little lower than your inside fingers.
How do you keep the walls from sloping outwards?
In a bucket of water right at your table, not at the sink.
Where should you clean all your tools after throwing?
By wetting the bat with a sponge and then drying it a little with a rag.
How can you prepare the bat to help the clay stick to it?
Flip the bat over.
What should you do if your bat is wobbling?
When you are able to run your finger along your lump and it doesn't wiggle.
How can you tell your clay is centered?
By pinching the top of the wall and pushing down after each pull.
How do you compress the top of the walls?
To you make sure that you don't get electrocuted when you unplug your wheel.
Why do you dry your hands and turn off the wheel?
The tools you need for throwing.
What are a sponge, a wooden rib, a pin tool, a couple trimming tools, a blender, and a kidney?
The wheel should be spinning every time you do this.
Do this if your clay gets tacky.
What is wet your hands or the clay?
Even from rim to floor.
How should your walls be shaped when you're done pulling?
Ball it up so it can be used again.
What do you do with your clay if your piece doesn't work out?