The next technique we're going to talk about is using a foam bat and foam bats are very easy to make yourself you can purchase them commercially. But if you want to save a couple bucks, you can definitely just use one of your old bats and pick up some foam at the local craft store for a couple bucks. And you can put one of these together pretty quickly. Now why might you want to use a foam bat, there's a couple different reasons. One, it is going to help to even out undulations within your rim. If you're working with a more organic form or a distorted shape, it can make trimming those vessels a little bit easier.

Also, if your rim of your pieces are extremely tight or coming to a sharp point, again, the rim is going to be a little more gentle on it compared to flipping your piece over directly onto a hard bat. So we're just going to put one together here real quick and then we'll jump on the wheel. And I'll show you how to use it because there are a couple of additional techniques or tricks that you're gonna want to use compared to trimming on a straight bat, which we'll talk about in one second. So I purchased some foam here from my local hobby shop Michaels, I'm not sure where I got this craft store. Now one thing I want to point out is the thickness of this piece. I don't recommend going much thicker than this with your foam.

If you get that say even an inch thick or thicker, your piece can really start to bounce around on you while you're trimming it. You don't need that much foam, you just need old enough to add that extra padding to give you some support on your rim. So next, I'm just having my old bat here. Take some just classic omers glue. Run that around our bat. There we go.

Be generous with the glue. You don't want this to become an off season just just like so and that should be enough to hold it into place. Next, sure down our phone. We can let that sit up for just a couple minutes and then come back in. We'll fast forward it's been a couple minutes, come back in and trim off the excess. Man we'll move to the wheel and finish our prep work of our bad and then move into using it to trim a larger bowl.

We are almost There. And voila, we have made our phone bat within a matter of a couple of minutes. And I'll show you some neat tricks with this guy starting right now.