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OK, so we have our bottle necked vase here, which has been in the drying cabinet for a
few days and now it is ready to trim. Now the problem with trimming something like this
that makes it different from most of the other pieces we've done in these lessons, is that
we can't simply turn it over to trim the base. It's got a thin neck on it. So what we're
going to have to do is throw a chuck and we're going to throw a chuck exactly the same way
that we threw this pot except we're going to leave the walls a lot thicker. See I've
prepared my bat and I put my clay down. We're simply going to be drawing up a cylinder that
we can turn this vase over and actually place it into. So let's go ahead and throw a chuck.
Centering pushing the clay down onto the wheel. Pulling it up to center. Scraping off the
excess. Opening the form. Entering the form. Opening the form and as you can see I'm leaving
lots of clay on the sides here and I'm just going to simply lift the walls. There it is.
Now we want to make sure that the distance we have here is going to allow this pot to
fit into it and as you can see there we have a nice distance. We now want to make sure
that there's enough room on the inside from that point. So we can take what ever object
we want as you can see put it inside and as you can see we have enough clearance. For
this to go in there. So what we're going to do is put this aside for a little while and
let it dry out. So it's not just wet on the top. So that the pot won't stick to it and
once this is dried out sufficiently, I will show you how to flip this vase over, put it
onto the chuck and trim a foot for it.