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Ok so here we have our corked jar. And it has been sitting in the drying cabinet for
a couple of days and it is ready now to trim. So the first thing we are going to want to
do is see if it will just pop off the bat. Ok so it doesn't want to go yet. So we're
just going to take a wire and pull it underneath like we did before. Keeping it flat against
the bat and taught. And wait for the pot to release. Now it's released. So now we lift
it up and put it over here. And we are ready now to start figuring out how to trim this
base. As you can see it's nice and smooth because we pulled the wire underneath it while
it was moving on the wheel. So there's a couple of little helpful tips in centering this and
getting it on the wheel. And I will like to show those to you. They make a lot of different
kinds of bats, they do make bats for trimming that have circles on them, have round circles
on the back to help you trim. They also make bats that have sort of a carpet surface or
a felt surface which helps you trim. And they make a giffon grip, what's called a giffon
grip which is a bat that has gears on it that will close in and center your piece. But if
you don't have any of those, this is a good way to do it manually. What I'm going to do
is take a pencil, you can take anything, you can you know use a wet finger and make marks.
But the idea is to make some marks on your bat to help you center. And this will really
take a lot of the time out of centering the piece to prepare it to trim afoot. As you
can see I've just drawn some lines on my bat. Now I'm going to take my corked jar, hold
it in my hands,turn it over and simply place it on one of the circles. Get it as close
to center to begin with as possible. And this will help us later. Ok so now we've prepared
the bat and placed our corked jar on top of it, and the next thing we are going to want
to do is center this jar so that we can trim foot. And we are going to be getting to that
next.