Post #649377 by danlovestikis on Fri, Aug 24, 2012 7:11 AM

Hi hang10tiki we are finally in show mode.

Along with the start on the Wish List 3 we continue to work on the Sacramento Crawl mug. Orders are taken under California Events with VampiressRN as the author.

Each day we are able to pour 2 mugs.

I clean off the mold lines and cut off the excess in the garage.

Then I move the work to the family room where there is a TV.

I fine tune the sculpture, add my name and Sac Ohana Crawl to the bottom and carve all the lines around the mug.

I have 16 of the run drying and two in molds ready to open today.

Wish List 3

I am assembling bowls one by one. But today we will be making molds.

I mark the tikis and bowl and carve off a small area on the backside of each tiki.

I carve and sand each bowl to make them smoother. These tikis are by Joniece Frank of Frankoma pottery I have that acknowledged on the bottom.

Today we will do our best to make 2 or 3 molds. The most important will be a partial mold of a large plain bowl we got from Tiki Lee in Las Vegas. He has a great shop there and we have found many wonderful tikis in it. I'll have photos tomorrow. We need a larger bowl for a project that will have a volcano. Here are some of the photos and drawings sent by Richard T. I need his TC name.

The other molds that we are planing to do are of some of my sea life sculpts for Roge's sea life chunk lamps. These are small and I want to use them on mugs and bowls.

To be able to pull the creatures out of the plaster I had Dan add screws. This will make molding a challenge but in the end I'll have something to take hold of.

Now I'm off to the garage with Dan to make this happen! Cheers, Wendy

[ Edited by: danlovestikis 2012-08-24 07:15 ]