Okay, the next object that we're gonna throw isn't a plate but a plate with a twist, we're gonna throw it upside down. So what that's gonna allow us to do is have a nice flat top to the plate. And then if we wanted to have longer food or shorter feet, we can do a number of different styles of feet with that. These work great for like cake display cupcake plates, bread plates, or what I'm going to do is make a sushi place. So I'm going to after I throw the upside down play, we'll let it set up and then we'll come back in and cut off the sides and ovulate and maybe we'll add a little detail work with some chopstick holders and things along that line. But first, let's throw our plate back on there.

Okay, so we're going to center it up as normal. Now that we're in our normal centering position right here, since we're going to go for a plate, I'm going to continue to compress this down and flatten it out. compressing down with my right hand, supporting the outside walls with my left. Plenty of water like this all this is looking pretty close. But I don't want to take this to Phoenix. I want to make sure I leave room for my foot.

Command, compress this in, go down about a quarter inch and we can always check that with her pen tool. Check our depth. That's looking pretty good. We'll go down just a tad more, but we're just about there. I'm gonna pull this out. Now as I'm pulling this out, I'm keeping a slight downward pressure on it as well so that it doesn't get too far away from me.

Come back in compress that center. With plates, it's really important to compress them back in just with a normal play. When we compress the back end about twice the number of times we pulled it out. Because of those s crack issues, greater the surface area along the base of the piece, the higher the risk of an ass crack. Okay, now I'm going to come back in here and you see I'm cutting this in half. So this is going to become our foot and then I'm going to continue to pull this out to be the outer lip of our plate.

There's always room to tweak this a little bit more I think it can be taken out maybe just a tad more. Take that in. compress it a couple more times just to be safe. Because I'm going for a sushi play. You know, I'm not going from real high fat, you know, this would be a higher fit than, say, a normal place. So still gonna have that display quality to it.

But if this was a, you know, maybe not necessarily a bread plate, but something maybe you're going to put candles on a centerpiece for the table or something like that. You may even want to elongate that foot even more to really lift it up and give it a pedestal type feel to it. Or perhaps this would be the pedestal for some cubs or a cream and sugar set anything along those lines. Clean up this outside edge. Mike so run our wire tool underneath of it. And then we'll set it off to the side and let it set up to about that leather hard.

And once it sets up to that leather hard state, we'll be able to flip it over and do all our detail and finishing work on it. So let's set this off to the side for a couple minutes and we'll jump over to the table and finish it up. Now that our upside down plate has had a chance to set up just about a leather hard state, we're ready to come in here and do our finishing work. And I'll just show you a couple things are dealing like we could leave this right now as it is, when you are flipping these over just like the place you want to flip them bat to bat to eliminate the risk of distortion. But you can see now we have this perfectly flat face, we come in here with a sponge clean all this up. And this could make a great pie stand anything a decorative element, anything along those lines.

But what I'd like to do today is just take it a little bit farther, add a little bit more distortion to it and turn it into an oval sushi tray. But again, I'm going back to bat to eliminate risk of distortions. And so to do that, I'm going to come in here and trim off the sides. Let's gonna do a little guideline here. These areas away cutting these often it's better to do a couple passes at it than to try to cut the whole thing in one cut especially if it's a little bit stiffer like this. See what we're looking at here, no take action want to take a little bit more off of that.

Pretty good Come back in flip this before we flip it come in a soft notice underneath edges first. Cleanup as cut lines a little bit hard edges are always the risky areas, they're too sharp. They can be uncomfortable they can ship easy to soften them up just a little bit. This little cut area it's very hard clean cut right in there might be a nice area for some detail work come in with some little glaze or different colored glaze or some slip work or perhaps some texture Now get one go ahead and flip this back to bat. Smooth out this sharp edge here. Come on with the sponge again, soften up these hard edges.

All right, and then, as always, we've talked about this before when the great things about the handmade object is you can really start to personalize it reference the function of this piece and add those fun little twist on there. So I'm going to take this a little bit further. I'm going to come in here with our perforated rib, and just add some wave references in there. Then there's going to reference back to the fish the use of the piece of sushi and then we will add some chopstick holders and some things like that. I'm just gonna come in here at our little wave pattern. Will you see that so I should pick up and glaze nicely.

Give a little texture to it. All right. Next we went some chopstick holders. So what I'm gonna do here I'm just gonna roll out small coil. Wouldn't want to cut a few grooves in it, give a little bit of a bamboo reference to it. Keeping up the theme of the piece, little slip will slip on your own.

Now they are here then we are chopsticks we're gonna sit across like so. create our little intention. Now if you want to see if you don't want just the double hard lines you didn't come in with your finger and just smooth out a little area within there. So we have our chopsticks here, and then we took the time to throw a little bowl, have a little pinch pot dish here, kind of like just a real rough little pinch pot, almost references a rock and it goes along with a more organic feel of this of the ways in the loose rock just sort of loose little bowl here. I wouldn't necessarily attach it because then that can make storage and cleaning difficult. But just add another little bowl set up in there.

Chopsticks are crossed. And again with just a few simple distortions. We've really turned this into quite a decorative piece as you can see, rather quickly. All right, who knows detail work detail work is always so important.