Post #650283 by MadDogMike on Fri, Aug 31, 2012 6:09 AM

littlegiles and Hang10Tiki - thanks
Tiger - "artistic insanity", I like that
Wendy and Lori - try it, you'll like it. Wendy, I'll put up some pics of the Olmec heads after the saggar firing (probably this weekend)
Heath - I found you while you were working, sorry we didn't get much chance to visit

I made some progress on the ceramic bottle. There is something primal about burnishing clay with a smooth river stone (or the back of an Onida teaspoon) like the ancients did 4,000 years ago, so I burnished the bejesus out of it.

That's probably going to bite me in the butt when I try to paint a tiki design on it with underglazes. I hope the clay still has enough "tooth" to hold the underglaze. It's been bisque fired and it's ready for color.

I need to order some corks to fit, I plan to try some different things with these bottles. I also ordered a "Borescope" on e-Bay
for $15 including shipping.

It's a fiberoptic camera that plugs into a USB port. I guess it would be good for a DIY Colonoscopy, but I will use it to see inside the bottles and insure good glaze coverage :D

"Some days its not even worth chewing through the restraints"

[ Edited by: MadDogMike 2012-08-31 06:38 ]