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So once your bowl has set up for a little while and it's gotten to leather hard, which
is when you can rub your finger across it and it doesn't leave too much of an indentation,
but you can easily make an indention with your thumbnail, you're going to cut it off
the wheel using your wire tool, holding it against the wheel head and sliding it through
the bottom. I've already cut this one, so I'm not going to do that again. Now I'm going
to take another bat, a clean bat, and put it on top of this bowl. Lift the whole bat
up, flip it over, and then put your hand on the bowl and lift this off. It came off really
easily because I didn't have a pat of clay here, but when you've just cut it, there'll
be a pat of clay, and you're going to need to support the side of that bowl while you
pull it off, because there will be a little bit of tension between the pat of clay that
you've cut and the bowl, so... Now, once you've the bowl off of the other bat, you can put
that bat back onto the pins, and you're going to be ready to trim this bowl.