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OK, so what we're going to make now, is some little bottles. Some fun little bottles for,
you can put anything from tinksters to hot sauce or perfume, whatever you want to put
in them. I don't care what you put in them, I'm going to make them. So, you want to start
off, we're going to throw from the hump. So you want to take your clay, and give it a
good wedge. Alright. By doing this, we ensure that there's no air bubbles in there, and
your wedging technique must be perfected long before you're throwing technique is perfected,
because if you don't wedge correctly, you're never going to be able to throw. And so what's
going on here, so I'm wedging this clay in on itself, in on itself, folding it, folding
it, smushing it, folding it, smushing it, and it's going around and around, spiral like
that. Until you've eliminated all the air bubbles. And a good way to check out to see
if that happened is take a cross section of your clay and you can see there's all but
one little tiny air bubble eliminated. Which means I should've wedged it a little more.
And so by taking a cross section you can see how well you've wedged, and also gives an
opportunity to go ahead and wedge it again. There you go. Bring it in on itself. Start
smalling up the bottom. And there we go. Ready to throw on the hump.