MadDog Mike's Platterful of Pupule - Boar Tusk - Other Crafts

M MadDogMike Grand Member (8 years) The Anvil of the Sun Joined: Mar 30, 2008 Posts: 11040	M MadDogMike Posted posted on Mon, Oct 31, 2011 11:30 AM OK, Wendy's calling me out :lol: I bought a concrete bench mold and I'm making ceramic pieces to embed into the concrete to make custom benches for Christmas gifts. A couple of the benches are not tiki related (fall leaves and lawn gnomes) so I haven't posted any pictures, but this one will have a Hawaiian couple. I need to make some sort of name plate to put the couple's names on, maybe I'll sneak a tiki in. The Hawaiian guy is 3 pieces, total of about 10 or 11 inches tall and 3/8 thick. The gal is 2 pieces (I pilfered the designs off the interweb, the only thing I can draw is flies) If it looks like those pieces are in the sink under water, that's because they are :) Underglazes fire to a dull finish, it's hard to tell if you got good coverage until you put the clear glaze on top and fire it again. Then it's too late to fix any errors. But if you put them in water, you can see any places that need to be touched up. In this case I can see that the shell necklace on the guy needs to be outlined so it shows up better and the flower & lei on the girl need more pizzaz. I also finished up a Baltimore Ravens mosaic table top this weekend, my first mosaic table top. It was a pratice piece for a tiki table top I want to do later :D

OK, Wendy's calling me out :lol:

I bought a concrete bench mold and I'm making ceramic pieces to embed into the concrete to make custom benches for Christmas gifts.

A couple of the benches are not tiki related (fall leaves and lawn gnomes) so I haven't posted any pictures, but this one will have a Hawaiian couple. I need to make some sort of name plate to put the couple's names on, maybe I'll sneak a tiki in. The Hawaiian guy is 3 pieces, total of about 10 or 11 inches tall and 3/8 thick. The gal is 2 pieces (I pilfered the designs off the interweb, the only thing I can draw is flies)

If it looks like those pieces are in the sink under water, that's because they are :) Underglazes fire to a dull finish, it's hard to tell if you got good coverage until you put the clear glaze on top and fire it again. Then it's too late to fix any errors. But if you put them in water, you can see any places that need to be touched up. In this case I can see that the shell necklace on the guy needs to be outlined so it shows up better and the flower & lei on the girl need more pizzaz.

I also finished up a Baltimore Ravens mosaic table top this weekend, my first mosaic table top. It was a pratice piece for a tiki table top I want to do later :D

Post #612229 by MadDogMike on Mon, Oct 31, 2011 11:30 AM