190. Trimming/Making a Fruit Bowl/Colander with Hsin-Chuen Lin 林新春 水果盆製作示範

Okay, today I'd like to show you how I make my colander, a bowl with a lot of holes for serving fruit so that air can go through. And this is the bowl with a lot of holes and how I make the holes more efficiently. And this is the finished one. Okay, I have a bowl that's been dry for a couple days. And this is dry and ready to trim. Stick my pot on the wheel head. Adding water to it. Tap center. Actually this piece of clay is a little bit too dry so using a sponge to add a little bit of water to the surface to get it soft a little bit. Okay, again my hacksaw. Actually, standard trimming tools. This is even better than the hacksaw blade because it doesn't rust and it stays sharp a little bit longer than the hacksaw blade. The tool is sharp. It's very easy to remove the clay. So very quickly I trim my bowl with a very sharp trimming tool. I burnish the foot. Put my stem on the foot. And you can see that there's a lot of the clay that is trimming off my bowl. Pick it up from the wheel head. To pick it up, usually I spin my wheel and then kind of twist. So basically I made a bowl, a wide bowl, and leave the rim a bit thicker for the colander. So it's a lot of hole to punch on. And here I have a drill, the power drill. So I'm going to use the power drill to use the power drill. And also I have a drill bit. Different sizes. Okay, different sizes. I find out this kind of a drill bit is good for doing the hole puncher. I think this is for the wood, the wood drill. There's a little pointy in the middle so that you can get in position right and then you drill. And I usually use the larger one and then just spread the smaller holes around the larger hole. Okay, so here I make a hole. So the timing is very important that you keep your pot not too dry and not too soft. So pretty good. I draw the larger hole, all one circle. Okay, pretty quick that I draw a large hole around. This is the inside. You can clean up this later, the inside. And then I will use the medium size drill bit to drill holes around the larger one. So try to get the... The largest one is a half inch, half inch drill bit and this one is 380. And of course I have a 1.25 inch. So I'm just finding the space in between and let's go. So this is a lot of boring process so I will show you the finished one. Okay, so just keep on drilling. Okay, so I have already used the drill bit, power drill and different size of drill bit to drill a lot, lots of holes on my colander. Now I'm ready to just remove the clay that is still stick and also the clay on the inside. So after I brush, the edge is still rough but I don't want to do it now. Later when the clay is dry I can just go use my hand to kind of rub it so that on the edge of the holes that will be more smoother. So by using a power drill bit I drill many, many different holes, small sizes on one bowl. Just maybe like 10-15 minutes and this will be done very quick because I was using the power drill bit. So again, if you want to try this project make sure you get this kind of a drill bit. I believe this is for the wood. There's a the middle part, there's a little sharp like a needle in the middle and this is where you can punch a little hole and then the edges will go through the holes very easy. Okay, good luck if you want to try it.