Plaster bats
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Plaster bats
Plaster Bats
To throw - to form a ceramic vessel or other object on the potter's wheel. Throwing is not always a straightforward thing. It certainly is not something that is learnt in a few minutes. The finer the clay, the harder it is to work with. Sometimes a plaster bat can be useful when throwing these finer clays. Then, it is possible to remove a precarious piece from the wheel head without actually cutting it off -- it just stays on the bat and the bat is removed, freshly thrown vessel and all.
Here is a simple method for casting plaster bats......
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