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How to Make Plates on the Pottery Wheel

By Tom Humphries

Type
Article
Level
Intermediate
Price
Free
Published
2017
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About this lesson

A potter gives exact clay weights and target sizes for dinner and side plates, compares traditional, simple and commercial rim profiles thrown from the same base, and explains trimming a plate on a supporting clay lump instead of the bare wheelhead.