Trimming Small Bowl with Tim See

The finishing of a small bowl from another video. A quick blurb about the giffing grip. Works great for production potters. if you are concerned with the quality of your work take your time and learn the correct methods, you will make better pots and in the end you will feel better about them.
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[wyantizer89]

I have put pieces on the wheel before that where leather hard and they always fly off even if I do not have the speed on high. I see here in this video that you just set in on there and off you go, any good tips?

[timseepots]

I am going to put a link to a new trimming video I had made that might answer your questions. it will be a video response.

[randallmoody]

If you have your Giffen Grip correctly set for your wheel head you won't get any wobble and if you use it correctly you won't get triangular pots. I don't use mine much but most of the complaints I hear are from not using the tool correctly rather than any issues with the tool itself. Also, using the grip isn't a "wrong" way just as trimming on the wheel head isn't really a "right" way. They are just ways.

[timseepots]

A perfectly adjusted wheel head and a not perfectly level pot will cause an uncentered foot. and depending on how tall or how off level your pot it may be uncorrectable with the grip. The triangle pots are from trimming soft or trimming straight walled cylinders either you squeeze it enough that it pushs into a triangle or not enough and it spins and leaves a grip stripe. The right or wrongness of using a tool rather than learning a technique is up to the individual I use it but hate when I do.

[masonmvt]

To bad video so blurry sure wld have liked to get a closer look at that trim tool, whatch springs? Sounds great. Why rib of death? I know why I call it that with my students?

[timseepots]

Flexible Metal rib of death check out the double walled vessel video. The trim tool is bamboo with watch spring bent tempered tied and glued.

[TheEmoTrinityXXX]

how long has it been since you threw that clay on the wheel? I mean how lonng does it take to get clay that hard?

[scubatam1]

I have my students put a thumbtack in the inside bottom of their project. That way, they know when they are trimming, if and when they hit the tack, they know they have trimmed deep enough. Beginners tend to trim right through the bottom of their project. I've done it myself. =:c)

[tmachris91]

practice, practice, practice.

took me almost three days to get it down.

i pretty much had a field day on the wheel and threw about 60 small bowls, and basically they were the scapegoats for tap centering. a good majority did fly off, but the last dozen i got the hang of it.

i prefer tim's method over sleach's method.. simply put, i can't actually tap the pot without spending five minutes centering, but tim's method is more direct, just use your fingers to lightly nudge the piece into center.

[turuanu]

And if I try to center by closing my fingers around the pot, it just flies off the wheel.

Oh! Re: centering, can you make a demo on how and why a cylinder is centered at the bottom, but not at the rim, and off and on in between and how to correct it?

[turuanu]

Tapping is what I like the least in pottery. I tap for thinness and I only hear different sounds, when I do, because where I go for practice there is always loud music.

I tap for centering and it doesn't always work. I keep asking "What if I tap at 3 o'clock every time the pot is off center at 9 o'clock? How do I know when to tap? If I do it randomly, it also doesn't work.

[offcenteredpotter]

Hey.. I get why you say you "can't stand a Giffin grip". I posted a trimming video a few days ago using my Giffin grip and the grip wobbles so much... I had no idea until I watched the video. But, I can't get tap centering down either. Thanks for the video, and thanks for commenting on mine.

Also, if the clay ribbons stick, you can wet the pot and trim that way.... but I agree with you, it is better to just wait.