475. Trimming a Roller Texture Lidded/Covered Jar/Box with Hsin-Chuen Lin 林新春 滾花蓋盒修坯示範

So before I cut it, I want to make a mark to see where is the cutting line. Remember I use a knife to poke a hole here, right here. Okay, so I have an idea where to cut it. And then before I cut it, remember I showed you the other day using my number 8. Okay, so this is my number 8 trimming tool. It's kind of thin, so it's very good to cut a little groove there using this knife. Okay, number 8. So this method is just like you are using a wooden, okay, I saw people and I used to show my students to use a popsicle stick and you just shape it into a narrow and then you keep on pushing while the clay is still wet. But now we are doing it at the very hard stage, so it's a lot more cleaner and a lot more easier. Right, so I'm cutting it about maybe one eighth of an inch. And then this is again my tool that I designed. It's very pointy on the small, narrow tip, so it will have less resistance while you're cutting it. Finally, cut it open. This piece of clay is a little bit dry on the dry side, so that's why it's a little bit hard to cut it. But as long as your knife is sharp, it should be easy to go through. Now I'm bringing in my number 2 trimming tool. Now that number 2 has a very good 90 degrees, so it's taking care of that nicely. All right, so that's the gallery I trimmed. And I'm going to use that as a guide while I'm trimming the lid. Okay, so I'm bringing my number 3 carbide tool to do all the heavy lifting. So here will be my foot rim, so I'm removing the clay from the middle. Right, so the very final stage, I will bring my number 2 again and just cutting it clean. Right, so this is the body part, and then I will use that as a guide to see how much I can remove from the lid. All right, so I'm bringing back my lid. Like I told you that when you are attaching the slab, the corner is the weakest part. Okay, weakest spot. So you want to reinforce it. You could get some kind of a wooden tool there and try to compress it, so that spot will be stronger. So what I did was put in the coil there in the corner and use the stick to squeeze it so it's fitting. And then I put it on the wheel and use a sponge to reinforce it with a little bit of water, so the corner will be stronger. Right now, let's take care of the fitting part. Before I push it, yeah, the piece looks centered. And then I'm putting this as centered as I can put it in. All right, and then I want to see if that is level, so I put something on top of it. And then just to see if that bubble is in the center. If not, I could adjust it. Okay, looks pretty level to me. This is to level it. Because you have a dome, so first thing you want to do is try to level it. And then after you level it, you could center the whole thing by tapping on the base. I think this is pretty good. All right, so that's good. And then just use the clay coil to hold it tight. And like I told you, this piece, the chop is just leather hard dry clay, so that coil is very easy to anchor it down. Right, again, I bring back my number two to put your lid on the chop and use this as a guide, so you will have a nice perfect fit. Okay, so that's the fitting part. It takes a little time to try to trim it, but as long as you pay a very good attention to it, you will have a very nice fitting leather chop. All right, to review what I have shown in this video, this is all the tools I did the demo for basic throwing. A wooden knife and a wooden rib, and then a metal rib. And also I used that to cut. You can use a needle tool. Okay, so that's the basic throwing tool for making the chop. Okay, and I used the heat gun to try a couple of times. Okay, so, but the leather hard chuck is much nicer to have, and it's easier for your piece to stay on the chuck, to stick on the chuck. For trimming, I was using number, first I used the number eight to cut a groove in between. Number eight, okay, this is my number eight. And then after that, I used my number 10 knife, okay, the sharp pointy knife, to cut it open. Okay, and that, after that, I used the number two trimming tool to cut this 90 degrees, and then flip over and trim the foot, trim the foot. And use that as a guide, and then I put my, place my lid on top of the chuck, and then trim the gallery so they are fitting. Okay, I was using the number two trimming tool to get that nice corner. Okay, so that's all the tools I have for doing this project, and the lid is fitting very tight, nicely, without moving. Because I use the body as a guide to check it once in a while, so as long as you have very good standard, you should be able to get a nice fit, fitting lid part. And also, I have this part a little bit hanging over, because when you try to pick it up, there is a little grip, the grip for you to, easy to hold it. So it'll be hanging over. All right, so that's the project for the rotor texture, with a slab kind of a lid to get a texture on top of it. All right, hope this information helped. All right, so see you next time.