 You're going to throw a large bowl using the rib. There is a video, I have thrown a small one, but it was just a beginner size piece of clay. But it really doesn't show the potential of the rib. So once you've got a hold of the rib, you can really throw some big pieces. The bowl is just a big cylinder that's opened up. You're going to throw a large cylinder and then with the rib open it up. Now while I'm opening I like to open with a top, about a 45 degree angle. You can take out those plugs of clay. It's easier to take them out and try to move all this stuff in the middle over. And I always start off with lots of clay, so I don't miss the cylinder clay. And after you've done that, you've already got it open. And now you can start opening the bottom. I do the bottom the same way, the large piece that I do is small. Just bring it across with my right, probably my left, the inside. I'm going to pull across. I'm still pulling across with my left hand. My left hand is considerably lower than my right at this point. And I'm still making them longer. I'm making sure you keep a cylinder or a toe-in shape. You don't want it to go over your bowl until you tell it to be a bowl. Pots like to make bowls, so just keep it a cylinder. Also, don't let your rim get too thin. Because this is the part that's going to be opened the most. And if it's at a thin stage now, by the time you open this is going to be twice as big. This is going to be half as wide. And so if you sort it with a normal sized rim, it's going to be too thin. And a big bowl like this has to have a strong finish on the top. It has to come up and say I'm done now. Instead of just sometimes rims get thin. And they look more like they ran out of clay than actually finish the pot. So now I'm going to open this into a bowl. Like I said, this is going to be a fairly large bowl. Oh, we're finally going to put it at the bottom. I didn't go in there with lots of water. And it's uneven. At this point, you'll go across and work your bottom. There's a couple of things. When it makes it nice and smooth, it contacts all of those particles in there. So you never get the S crack in the middle that you get with larger plates and bowls. I'm working on the radius of this. And then going a little bit past, back and forth. And I like a nice, a bowl I think should have a smooth interior. That's what I'm going to do, because I like it. And I'm going to have one more pull across the bottom. I'm going to use the grid to open this a little bit. Like I said, it'll be a fairly large bowl. I'm going to go down with it at a 45 degree angle. I like the strip because I can get a hold of it. I'm balancing on the top with my left hand. My elbows are on my knees. My elbows are tucked into my ribs. And I'm going to go down with a 45 degree angle. As I get down to the bottom, you can see the part that I'm using. To get down to the bottom, the pressure will come to the end of the rib. And I'll bring that rib into my tummy. And it'll make a nice join from the side, from the wall to the bottom. And also, if you bring it towards your tummy, it'll stop it from chattering. It starts to chatter in that roller coaster ride. It really is a bother. It seems hard to get off. So I'm going to do that another time. I'm going to make my tummy a nice join from the wall to the bottom. Now I'm going to give it a pull because as I open up the walls, the particles tend to splay open. And I'm just going to give it more of not a shaping pull, but a compacting pull. And I'm going to compact the top. Pack that ridge, the ridge, the rim. If you do that, chances are, if you don't do this, chances are in drying, you will get V-cracks along the edges where you're forced to open. So I'm going to do it again. At this point, you can open it up as much as you like or as you dare. Keeping in mind that this clay here is holding the weight of that. So again, I'll just compact those particles as they open. And just for the sake of it, I'll do it one more time. Just change the profile. So with the rib, as long as you do most of your throwing, you can see where it's dirty. With that part, the moving the whole rib up and down, not trying to make the rib move that way, but the whole... This part goes up and down the sides. And holding on to both the handle and the top. You have control over this thing. And it will do what you ask. Another technique is a lot of times when you're throwing a bowl, the top part, this part to here, tends to want to flop. And you get a weird profile. So the last hole of the bowl I want what I want to do is I'm just going to run my sponge. It's below my right hand, and I'm kind of pushing up this way. And it keeps that profile in check. I'm not pushing hard just enough to bend the clay. And you see there, it's a little more controlled. As you see with the rib, if you start with a big enough cylinder, you can make a very large bowl. I could do another one if I want to. I kind of like this one the way it is. So there I'm showing a large piece with a perfect profile rib. And there's me just tidying up that profile one more time. And contacting. And you see when I start off with that thick edge, I've got a nice rim that bolt comes up and says, I'm done and doesn't have it, will she wash your skinny rim? That's it.