148. Trimming a Large Porcelain Bowl with Hsin-Chuen Lin

Since I threw this ball last Wednesday, I haven't had time to trim it yet. Today, I'm going to trim it. I couldn't find a smaller bed that is similar to the size. This is a little bit too big, but I'm going to use this bed to trim it anyway. When you are flipping up your ball or some very wide rim pieces, you might want to sandwich it. You don't want to just bring your ball and flip it over. Sometimes, the rim might be by the pressure of my alter or change. It's not a perfect circle, so you want to put a bed on top of it, and then you just hold the two pieces, and then you flip over. Maybe I put a bed wrapper on my real head so that my bed doesn't slip. Then, I just roughly center my bed and center my ball. I'm going to get some clay coil to hold my large ball to stay in the center. Okay, ready to trim. Now, I'm trimming the foot. This kind of foot isn't a very wide foot, so you don't need to leave one or two rims. I only suggest to trim one rim here for the foot, and maybe the center part, the center point. I will not trim, so I leave the very center point the same level as the other foot here. That should do it. I don't think it will affect the whole inside curve. Now, I'm trimming the other foot. Now, I'm trimming the other foot to the rim of my ball. Since this piece is very wide, I don't think it will just shift over. It should be quite stable. What you have just seen is that I tried to use my longer blade trimming tool to get a chattering mark. I cut it down all the way. If I bring my camera closer, you will be able to see it. You can see that the chattering mark, I just done it using my trimming tool. I'll sign my name on the foot. Usually, I will put my stamp right by the center point. I'm using a shiny stone to burnish the foot. I'm done with the trimming. I'm getting ready to flip over my bat. I just use a sponge to go around the circle. This is the one. After quite a bit of trimming, I removed a lot of clay. Actually, the whole piece isn't very heavy at all. That's the inside. This is the bottom. You can see that I only have one foot. The middle center point is the same height as the outer part of my foot. Thanks for watching.