This is how I make my handles. I use a handheld extruder. You can get bigger extruders, but these ones are cheap and work perfectly for handles because you don't need to extrude that much clearly for them. I use... so this is... I got it from pottery craft in the UK it's a two-inch circular extruder. You can get a shimpo branded one, but they're all the same as far as I can tell they're exactly the same build. It's just branded differently. So if you see one that looks like this and it's approximately two-inch diameter or two-inch-quarter-inch diameter, it's the same one and that's a good one that's nice and cheap and works well. I use these dyes, the critic dyes that I got a set made just for me and then people kept asking where they could get them. So I now sell more of them. There are some fancy shapes if you want to do more interesting handles and then just the bog standard shape which I find really comfortable in three different sizes. So obviously I would recommend them because they are what I wanted and I couldn't find them when I selling them so I've got them made and you can buy them through my website. These are five D's from pottery craft or just search for shimpo hand-held extruder. How I use it? I'll post a link to a more in-depth video that I've done on handles but essentially it's very simple or it can be very simple. You can extrude them and then pull them if you want to change the profile of them but I don't, I just extrude. So what I would do is I take a bottle of clay and just don't wedge it properly but I do try and smooth it out just a little bit and knead it. So it's not too uneven. Obviously you don't want to add any air pockets to it and then in order to also not add air to it, you don't make that smaller than just slide in. Use the pressure of the clay to push the, so basically this how it works, that part of slide. Now that's the release mechanism so it can slide backwards, trigger and makes it slide forwards. So you can clear, you can make space in the barrel by pulling that bit back and then you can put your clay in but that allows a lot of air in. What I do is have it all the way up. I push the release tab that bit over the edge of a table and I get my clay and I use the clay to force the plunger down and what that does is it completely fills the tube. If you get air pockets in around the edge, they will come out in the handle and it's not ideal but this way of doing it allows you to blow it under pressure and should not be any air balls. So that should be enough clay. I'm only making relatively small handles then load your die on. I'm using the nine by 18 mil which is the medium size. Wash your hands because I find the handles stick to the surface of my desk. It's water resistant paint but the handles will kind of stick to it. So what I've got is plasterboard or I think it'd be dry wall if you're in the States but something absorbent but that clay will release from. So a wooden board would do cardboard paper, something like that just not on something that's stick to. Then try to keep the gun as stable as possible just to fix through. A length of it. Lay the length down. I just smear the surface because every time you pull the handle if the gun moves you'll get a slight change in shape with the handle but you can just smooth it out. Then roll out and something to cut it with. I'm doing smaller handles and my normal go to size 10 and a half to 11 centimeters. These are going on caps which have less height to them so I'm going to go for 10. So I just cut the clay at 10 centimeters. And then you don't have to do the stage if you don't want to but I flare the end with the same rotary grinding bit that I use for the peacock ice stamps. Bend the ends over. Then I set them aside to dry for a few hours until the dryness matches the mugs and I'll join them. As I said I'll link to the other videos in this series showing off the other tools that I use a lot and I'll link to the video that covers the handles in a bit more depth but that's it. Hand extra to die. Hand extra to die and dies. I think the extrude is something like 30 to 40 pounds that dies up between 10 and 15 depending on which ones you get and they're what I use for all my handles and would definitely be lost without it can replace immediately if anything happened to it. So I highly recommend this one of my most used and most valued tools.