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Throwing bowls on the potter's wheel is one of the most common forms that are accomplished.
In a sense you are really working with the centrifugal force of the wheel throwing the
clay out and what you are doing is just manipulating the clay to the right shape and the right
dimension so it is an exciting form to do on the wheel and you can do a lot of bowls
in a very short period of time just by using the force of the wheel and a little bit of
control technique. Using different size pieces of clay will yield different size bowls on
the wheel. There are a few tools that you can use to facilitate that and one of them
being the sponge, the wooden tool, the needle tool, and the sponge on a stick. Another important part of using clay on the
wheel is the right moisture content, too hard and the piece will be hard to form, too soft
and the piece will collapse.