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O.k. so here we have our completed trimmed plate; there are a few things I'd like to
talk about in reference to preparing this plate for the kiln to be bisque fired. First
of all we still have soft clay or semi soft leather hard clay so this is the last time
if we wanted to do any tooling. Put it back on the wheel, draw some lines on it; any kind
of decoration that involves scarring the clay we would want to do now. So I'm just going
to simply turn it over and write my name on this plate to show you that this clay is still
able to be worked with; my name and the date. Now as you can see this is what the color
looks like when it is ready to be put into the kiln and you can't work it; you can scratch
it but not really work it, so once the clay looks like this it's ready to go into the
kiln. Another thing to be aware of when, when dealing with plates is that they have a large
surface on the bottom. This means that as they're drying you, you; you have to take
note of how quickly they're drying, if we just set it down like this it may dry out
to quickly around the edges and we'll get an S crack in the middle of it so you want
to check it periodically while it's drying; maybe flip them over, turn it; turn it over
on the other side, allow it to dry some on the backside. If it's particularly dry out
which it's not here in, in; in Oregon you might want to take a spray bottle simply spray
down the edges. If it's really dry you might want to cover it with a paper towel and then
a piece of plastic. If there's any sort of slurry or anything like that that's, that's
on the clay that you want to remove now is a good time to do it. So you can take a sponge
simply wipe it down and smooth it. O.k. so now we have completed the plate or at least
the throwing part of the plate; I've certainly enjoyed having you here in my studio, I hope
you've enjoyed being with me; join us again on Expert Village and learn how to throw a
variety of different types of ceramics.