Post #649614 by danlovestikis on Sun, Aug 26, 2012 8:43 AM

Thank you Vamp, Kele, MDM and hang. I like your visits very much.

Progress Report:

Yesterday was bowl day. I made a Bob Bowl for Steve Soto. It will be deep purple to go in his new lounge. I forgot to take a photo for Soto!

Next I made a Frankoma (tikis by Joniece Frank) bowl for Alii Tiki. I fine tune the connections after they dry some.

Next up Marone Tikis Moai bowl. I start by soaking each piece in a bucket of water. Since they dried some while wrapped in plastic I wanted to bring them back to softer clay status.

I added clay where I wanted to attach the tikis. I pressed them into place and then pressed the clay inside to hold them. Hopefully I didn't make air bubbles.

I added clay to make the backs look a bit more rocky.

Once all three heads were in place I turned it over and filled in along the heads and added clay to the bowl to simulate rocks.



The clay I added has more water in it than the bowl and Moai heads. So that the parts can equalize and shrink together without cracking I wrapped the bowl in plastic.

All three are wrapped in plastic. I'll leave them like that for several days.
Here they are in the shed. I'm running out of room fast. Hey Steve, there it is the bowl on the left.

I fine tuned these two Sacramento Crawl mugs last night. I now have 20!

Now it's back to work, Wendy