Can't find out how to cut out feet

[nancylee]

Morning,

After a fruitless google search using what are probably the wrong terms and a search of my brain where I know this knowledge was stored at one time, I am flummoxed. I can't remember how to cut feet out of the bottom of a jar/cyliner/bowl. A client wants a piece with feet like the ones on this antique piece, and I need help.

How do I cut feet like these out? Any help would be appreciated. 

Thank you,

Nancy 

[oldlady]

throw a thick bottom, cut the bottom with a loop tool and avoid the places the feet are.  then adjust the feet for decoration.   only one way, there are others.

[nancylee]

Thank you!!! Much appreciated!! 

Nancy

[Sorcery]

I'd add em after of it's faster but I'm already an after adder.

Sorce

[Callie Beller Diesel]

For little nubs like that, I second the add them after idea. 
As a side note, I came across some of these in an architectural salvage shop. There were blending marks on the bottom, as though they’d been added. 

[Pres]

I create feet on the bottom of many of my bowls and vases by doing a regular trimmed foot ring, then using a thin walled pipe cut either edge of the intended opening, then use a cheese cutter to cut the straight connecting line between the two rounded edges. This creates a smooth nicely symmetric foot on the bottom of the pot that I finish while still on the wheel with a damp sponge.

 

best,

Pres

[Rae Reich]

Modifying the trimmed foot is more likely to get you an evenly level pot than adding 3 separate nubs and smoothing them.

However.

If you are producing large quantities, adding feet will save time and clay.  I believe @Pres adds uniformly press-molded feet to some of his. 

[Pres]

Actually @Rae Reich, I don't press mold the feet so much as I make them with extruded pieces cut to length and added on. I have couple of different dies that I use in the hand electric extruder.

 

best,

Pres