Three Easy Ways to Fix a Botched Trimmed Foot on the Potter's Wheel

This video demonstrates three easy ways you can fix a botched or messed up foot on the Potter’s Wheel. My students have limited time in class and on the wheel, and sometimes they just don’t have enough time to redo a project, and we need to take a shortcut (not the best!) way to save a piece!

The following are the three methods I show are:

#1 Cutting a notched foot like a colander- see this video link for a colander video:
   • Throwing, Trimming, and Glazing a Whe...  

#2 Cutting off the botched foot and replacing it with a coil and then throwing it- see this video link if you’d like to see a very similar technique when throwing a goblet with a stem:
   • Two Easy Ways to Make a Goblet, Chali...  

#3 Cutting off the foot entirely, and replacing it with little legs. If you’d like to see a related video of this technique, you can see my Faberge inspired slip trailed egg here:
   • My "Faberge" Inspired Slip Trailed Wh...  

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