103. How to Make a Foam Chuck for Trimming Ceramic Plates

If you are throwing dinner plates on your pottery wheel you probably also want to trim them.

But trimming plates can be difficult because they easily bend. They need some sort of support.

With a Foam Chuck you get the most perfect support for trimming dinner plates - and you can easily make it yourself, fast and cheap.

See the video about how I throw my dinner plates here:    • 100. How to Make Dinner Plates on the...  

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INDEX:

00:00 How and why to trim your dinner plates
01:07 Making a Foam Chuck for trimming the plates
01:17 What you need to make a Foam Chuck
02:30 How to cut the foam for the chuck
07:45 Centering the foam chuck on the bat
08:01 Testing the foam chuck
08:52 Using the foam chuck for trimming a dinner plate
10:00 Burnish the plate with the foam chuck