Making a Ceramic Tumbler - Ceramic tumbler trimming

OK, what I like to do myself, is I like to put big throw lines in it. Then it really lets people know that it was hand made. So, how you can do that, just take your finger and just give it one last, just rip. This one, yeah I don't like that one, I'm going to do another one. Yeah, give it a little movement. You see? And once it's all fired off, you'll see that since it's got these, this movement going on down there, it really reacts with the glazes and stuff and gives it a nice, organic, hand made feel to it. And when you want to come back with your knife and, yeah that's fine, the top's fine. Come back with your knife. Start putting the bottom on it. Right now, what we're doing is trimming on the wheel. Because when it comes to tumblers, you don't want to have to come back. Turn them upside down in the studio and have to trim them and have your little potter buddies laughing at you because you had to trim a tumbler. This stuff needs to be picked off the wheel, put on the ware board, dried. You don't even go back to it, you don't even look at it. Don't even go back and sign it. It's just a tumbler. So what we want to do, I'm putting a bottom on it right now. This is how it's going to look when it's done. You see, what I like to do is I use this knife and I'll make a squat little bottom. And I don't know if you can see that, but it's making the bottom real nice. And it's giving it a lip right here, so when you go to glaze it, the glaze, you'll stop your glaze line right there. And the glaze won't drip off of your piece and onto your kiln shelf and you have to buy another eighty dollar kiln shelf. So this is aesthetically pleasing and it's also safe.