A Detailed Guide to Trimming Pottery Store Jars

This weekend, I'm trimming a lovely tall jar with a stepped lid, but the initial focus is sorting out an irritating teething issue I've been developing... my fault due to poor throwing. I've incorrectly been leaving a very strong throwing ring towards the base of the pot, which means when I trim the vessel, a thin spot is created that ultimately buckles when fired, or it even collapse. So, in this video I'm sorting that, whilst also discussing the entire process of trimming a shape like this.

Apologies for the laboured narration — I've had a week in bed and speaking has been a struggle.

Thanks for watching!

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Timecodes:
0:00 - Introduction
0:20 - The problem at hand...
2:53 - The leather hard components of the jar
3:13 - Trimming the lid
5:01 - Trimming the body
8:40 - How I deal with excessive scratch marks
9:23 - Trimming the stepped lid
13:42 - Trimming the jar's stepped base
15:48 - Why I use HPL bats, (high pressure laminate)
16:45 - The last bit of quality control
17:57 - Inserting the fragments of bronze
18:45 - Clean up

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