How to Make Pinch Pots Without Ruining Your Wrists | DIDEM MERT

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[@kindle7191]

I love making pinch pots! My personal fave thing to do! Cheers from Kindle on Vancouver Island.

[@tahinde]

So basically you pinch a slab?

[@triciac1019]

For a pinch pot, you usually start with a ball of clay. Then push your thumb in and start pinching it, going around in a circle as you open it up. Then you make it in the desired shape, trying to keep the walls and bottom the same thickness.