Post #649688 by MadDogMike on Sun, Aug 26, 2012 9:21 PM

ATP - just be careful you don't put an eye out with that gun!
Wendy - thanks for lots of hugs from you
AtomicChick - welcome to the party, I'll bring the Cherpumplecan :)
nui'umi'umi - I have a mind like a steel trap! Unfortunately, it's rusted shut :lol:
H10T & BeachBumz - thank you very much
LittleGiles - that Lantern mug looks perfect there, Enjoy!

I really liked the way that saggar firing finish turned out so I'm going to try some more of that, I need more fodder for the saggar cannon. Something relatively smooth so I can burnish the clay. I made up 2 more preColumbian MesoAmerican Olmec heads from my mold and started working on a bottle. VampiressRN had given me an empty Trader Vic's Macadamia Nut Liqueur bottle and said "Here, I'm sure you'll find something to do with this" so I didn't want to let her down. (The bottle was one of the secret ingredients in her "Gold Monkey" cocktail, shhhh) The right way to make a ceramic bottle from that would be to use it to make a plaster mold then cast ceramic bottles. But that takes a week and I'm far too impatient, so I slabformed the clay over the bottle.

A slab of clay placed over one side on the bottle which was wrapped in tissue, wetted down, and smoothed

The bottom and other side "Frankensteined" in

Smoothed with a wooden rib tool, after the picture smoothed more with a metal rib tool and allowed to dry some

Cut in half and pulled from the bottle. The tissue paper keeps the clay from sticking to the glass. Then the seam areas were brushed with slip and scored in preparation to go back together.

Put back together and a top ring added

All let it rest in a plastic bag for a day or two to equalize the moisture then some burnishing and some sort of decoration.