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Okay so when it comes to wheel wedge I find it to be the most important thing when it
comes to smaller pieces. Now what I'm doing here is squeezing it and its making it go
up to a cone okay. While I'm doing that it’s removing all the air bubbles or all the inconsistencies
that might remain inside that *** of clay. And so right now I'm doing the karate chop.
Coming down on it with one hand like this and this is centering in the inside of my
hand here where all that good slip is and this chop, chop right there. I've got my,
my leg is locked and I'm squeezing it with my fingers and my fingers are feeling all
the little inconsistencies, all the little bumps. And every little bump that I feel I
feel over here I'm going to press in over there and fix it. If I feel it over here I'm
going to press in and fix it. So you've really go to train your hands. You've got to train
your hands to know what to feel.
There we go, center that piece up. How about one more with the wedge. Just for good luck.
Up and down. All right I feel something on the bottom that's annoying me, I can't seem
to get it. That's why they made this. Come in just get rid of it. I'm not going to try
to mess around with that I'm just going to get rid of it. So that the wheel wedging's
done. We're ready to make a hole and take it from there.