Cleaning Leatherhard Decorative Coil Forms

This video is a follow up showing the cleaning to my previous video where I covered the foundational basics of building pottery by using coils as well as using 15 different decorative coil techniques which my Ceramics I students use in making a coil skillbuilder, and will use many of these techniques on our sculptural shoe project. That video can be found here: • Coil Building Basics w...
I clean the coil form when it is leatherhard by sculpting and cleaning any defects on the surface of the coils- sculpting it to look as natural as the intended coils as possible. The PDF below shows visuals for carving the grooves to look more like a v-groove with a kemper wood tool, or other pointy tool- even a sharpened pencil, then smoothing all the carved areas with a brush.
As promised, here is the pdf I made of the poster of techniques and step by step assembly: drive.google.c...
If I can find the original document with the photos of coil techniques, I will share that as well.
For the great tools I used in the video (including the mudtools shedders, ribs, and kemper mini ribbon tools) check out this link to a live Googledoc I continually update with lots of my favorite tools on Amazon using my associate links! (also some non-amazon suggestions on here!)
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I am a public high school ceramics teacher at William Mason High School in Mason, Ohio. (Mason is currently the largest high school in Ohio!) As a potter, I have been working in clay for over 30 years, and I have been teaching for over 29 years, the past 20 + have been specifically teaching high school ceramics. I love what I do! I have my own studio in my home basement, where I work on my personal pottery for my Etsy site; www.etsy.com/s...
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[@barbmorgan2989]

Amazing instructor with easy to follow instruction!!! Thank you!

[@therev6730]

I wish I were back in school with you as my ceramics/pottery teacher!

[@pennylane9155]

Thank you for your tutorial, it has reignited my interest for pottery again. It is something I started to learn for a very short time nearly 40yrs ago, but had to give up due to no time for myself!

[@lindaknox7725]

If you are using clay with grog is it ok to use the wet brush for cleaning up? Love your coiled vessel.

[@andreajensen6264]

You can use a brush but often it seems to bring the grog to the surface as the smaller particles get washed away. That can be remedied by burnishing the surface later with a smooth tool or stone to compress and smooth the surface

[@KaransPotsAndGlass]

I just use a bit more water to generate more slip to help prevent the grog from being prominent!

[@matildhosszu7555]

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