Saturday I worked on that
phoenix pot with the slightly dry neck. I had wrapped the top lip with a wet paper towel and covered it with plastic from Thursday night until Saturday. The wrapped part got nice and soft and I was able to flare out the lip but when I sliced it top to bottom, the neck pieces started separating. Apparently it really was too dry when I assembled it. I don't have any more pictures of it here, but I had to suture the neck to the body as well as the long cuts. We'll see if the patient survives.
Pot with the paper towel triage.
I sliced the pot I made before the dry one and when I made the first slice the piece was still rather wet so I wrapped it with a plastic tie and let it rest a while. When I got back to it later it was actually more dry than I wanted to be, but I sliced. It's hard to judge the moisture in Winter with the heat running.
Sliced and diced.
Close-up of the sutures near the bottom.
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