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How To Wire Off Your Pottery? — Spinning Pots

Terry Connor
8 min readFeb 9, 2021

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After making the pottery, the first thing that can hit your mind is how to wire your pottery off. Whether you build your pottery on a bat or use a wheel, removing your pottery from the wire is always challenging. In most cases, potters end up crashing the pottery’s bottom since they don’t know how to do it rightly.

At the same time, a beginner tends to break off the pottery, as the pot strives to stick on the bat or wheel and creates an utter failure when lifted. It is why you need to ensure that you are applying the right technique while wiring your pottery. This article is going to talk about the correct technique that you can use for your pottery wiring. Read on to know more.

Why is it even a problem to wire your pottery off the bat?

The clay you have thrown to make your first pot on the wheel looks excellent when you shape it correctly. But the actual problem appears when you need to get it off without squashing the walls.

You can experience difficulties in most cases, as pots tend to stick on the wheel or the surface you have used to make your pottery. It is more likely to happen because the clay is softer, and it gains more moisture, which makes it stick on the surface.

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Terry Connor
Terry Connor

Written by Terry Connor

I'm someone who is always looking to improve my life and others. Looking to be a better person spiritually and financially. Plus I love pottery and Cats.

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