Post #645254 by danlovestikis on Mon, Jul 23, 2012 1:11 PM

MadDogMike I saw your King Kamehameha, I hope I spelled that right. It looks super. It's the best King bowl I've ever seen. About the darning tool, I got it for the inside of bowls and now it's for the outside too, thank you.

hang10tiki I'm sending you an offer by email, thanks for stopping by it reminded me.

littlegiles comments like yours will keep me posting each day. I love to read the comments or if there are none I check the numbers and I know that what I posted was looked at so that works too. I'm glad you like the Moai, that China Sails mug is one of our favorites. We all swipe ideas from the vintage mugs.

Progress Report:

I think that I have enough items poured for the next Wish List. I will open the list the first week in August. It will open Wednesday August 1st and close at midnight PST on Sunday August 5th. I will post photos of what's available to be made and what each item will cost to order. Shipping will be added to that cost. The first on the list may be able to snag those that I've already made but just need to be glazed. Remember that I don't work with deadlines. I work hard and as fast as possible but that's it. I will be making the Sacramento Crawl mug and going to Oasis at the same time. At least this time all the items have been poured and cleaned and I just need to take them off the shelf and go to work on the creative part.

I opened the kiln yesterday morning and the only cracks were in the mugs that Psycho Tiki D gave me as a gift. They were so fragile and thin. Of the ten only five survived without hairlines from the bisque fire. I'll glaze the survivors in the future. It has still been fun to work with them. Thank you PTD.

Top shelf in the kiln. When firing green ware it is OK to let them touch. Glazing is completely different, items would all stick together.

Bottom shelf in the kiln.

One of the five that cracked. Some the entire way from top to bottom.

Even though I sanded it all before firing I can see areas the need to be sanded again before glazing. Because of that we didn't hose them off yet.

Tomorrow morning I will sand and Dan will get drenched washing them off. One spec of dust and the glaze will not stick.

I was so relieved that the wedding mugs and the Super Carved for bavtech came out just fine. I will be glazing them by Wednesday.

littlegiles here are a couple of better photos of the Moai bowl.

Speaking of Moai's Dan was doing his Rosetta Stone yesterday and up popped this photo.

I've made several bowls with the Bumatay Fish design. Now I've made a couple with the Bumatay Tiki design. This one is with coconut carvings on the bowl. Or it could be a looked at as a woven basket.

Even though I wrap the cast items in multiple layers of plastic wrap they still firm up. Before I make something I repeatedly dunk them in a bucket of water and allow them to soak up some moisture. Here I'm cutting off the fins so that it goes from fish to tiki.

Then I assemble them and put them in a plastic bag so that they do not crack.

It is fun to change the shape of the bowl and to add carvings. This one is tapa.

Well friends that's it for today. I hope I'm keeping the Dan and Wendy show alive! Cheers, Wendy

[ Edited by: danlovestikis 2012-07-23 13:31 ]