Post #633707 by danlovestikis on Wed, Apr 25, 2012 9:19 AM

hang10tiki I hope those shavings do well, thanks for letting me know.

Progress Report:

Hi Friends yesterday I organized all the boxes of mugs according to their destinations. Sacramento events, Caliente, hold to go with Bob's and ship them NOW. We shipped all those that needed to go. But first I needed to shop!

The story of the original Missionary's Downfall bowl continues.

I wanted to turn the mold over and have the bowl drop out so Dan screwed these on to make space for the bowl to fall.

We turned it over.

The mold weighs around 50 pounds so it squashed the brackets.

Dan put the mold out back with a fan blowing on the back to see if we could make it shrink more.

It is raining the next two days so the mold is back in the garage. The story continues...

While Dan boxed the Zombie Torches and took them to to the post office I worked on cleaning Bob's out of the molds and then on Loki Tiki's Missionary's Downfall alter stand and removable bowl. Tom Brill bought the first one so I have to "alter" number two so they remain 1/1's.

Here are the steps done on Tuesday.

I had a Tiki Bob bowl to clean. I decided to use the part I usually cut off and toss out. I covered it with hand made rocks.

Next I hand built a bowl and made it fit the rock stand.

Using my fingers and thumbs I increased the size of the bowl by pinching and pulling. Then I removed the rock stand before it had time to stick.

I began to build the rest of the alter.

Support beams were set into the floor using slip. Remember air holes explode in the kiln.

They were bent back into position.

The rock top was added and glued into place with slip. I then bowed the beams to make room for the woman.

Loki Tiki asked for a larger viewing area when the bowl is removed.

The rocks are marked but not carved because the clay here is too soft.

For the night I stuffed the alter with a bag full of other bags so that it will not start to wilt.

Then the alter stand and the bowl were wrapped for the night. They will dry some but not too much. More work will be done on this today.

I worked on another Bob request last night but it is a duplicate so no photos. I stopped work at 10 PM. Now it's time to start again.

I love this work, thank you for all the orders. Wendy