Wendy Cevola - New colors of the Frank mug by Frankoma now available. - Other Crafts

D danlovestikis Grand Member (8 years) Joined: Jun 17, 2002 Posts: 9082	D danlovestikis Posted posted on Wed, May 1, 2013 6:43 AM LoriLovesTiki we actually watch too much TV in the evenings. We thought that Monday's episode of Hawaii 5-0 was the best one they have ever done. Wo Fat is toast. Philot thank you, the glaze colors match the original I just put them on less messy. Hale Tiki I wish I knew what that meant, you young people have a whole different vocabulary. hang10tiki I'm so happy to take you all along with us. You all make everything fun. lunavideogames love the photoshop thank you. I'm very happy it was one of my mugs. This is a wonderful museum with mummies and a tomb to tour. We were sad to have it be closed when we got there. It's well worth a visit. hang10tiki, GROG and luavideogames you really spice up the show. WaikikianMoeKele the colors were a weird choice for a tiki bar but they make the heads really pop. I'm glad we never watched Dexter or they might gross me out. Professor G if I had more employees but Dan's as good as 2 or 3. tigertail777 I believe this is one of their headquarters. Benjamin Franklin belonged to this society. The museum is outstanding. We bought many of our Egyptian decorations for our bedroom in their gift shop. They give workshops and astronomy shows too. TikiAno a dream come true for Dan. We once surfed in San Diego with my cousin. I got stung by a jelly fish but we had a fun time and did catch a few waves. Dan loves both your photos. Progress Report: I got out all the glazes it takes for the heads and made a pallet. I did more than the glaze skips on each head. I decided to make them even better. On our trip Dan found one tiki mug. It was only $7 and it was from Trader Vic's. This mug has a lot of chips on it but over all they did a horrible job on them. The glazes were full of popped bubbles and the tiki is rough. But maybe that adds character. I've always wanted to see if I could re-glaze a damaged vintage mug. So I picked out the colors. I had Dan sand all the chips. I painted the glaze on, 3 layers. The heads and mug were put in the sun to dry. Bottom shelf of the kiln. I loaded the top shelf with the vintage mug far away from my good heads. I worry that it could come apart and I didn't want pieces to stick to my projects. The kiln will open on Thursday. I won't re-glaze more heads until I see how these turned out. Meanwhile I'll work on the Sacramento Crawl mug. Here's an update. I counted 9 fingers on the wooden tiki so that's what the mug has here. Notice how photos help. I can see the shape is different. I can redo this or say, "well the mug doesn't have to be a perfect match." Not sure if I'll change it. Thank you for the visit, Wendy

LoriLovesTiki we actually watch too much TV in the evenings. We thought that Monday's episode of Hawaii 5-0 was the best one they have ever done. Wo Fat is toast.

Philot thank you, the glaze colors match the original I just put them on less messy.

Hale Tiki I wish I knew what that meant, you young people have a whole different vocabulary.

hang10tiki I'm so happy to take you all along with us. You all make everything fun.

lunavideogames love the photoshop thank you. I'm very happy it was one of my mugs. This is a wonderful museum with mummies and a tomb to tour. We were sad to have it be closed when we got there. It's well worth a visit.

hang10tiki, GROG and luavideogames you really spice up the show.

WaikikianMoeKele the colors were a weird choice for a tiki bar but they make the heads really pop. I'm glad we never watched Dexter or they might gross me out.

Professor G if I had more employees but Dan's as good as 2 or 3.

tigertail777 I believe this is one of their headquarters. Benjamin Franklin belonged to this society. The museum is outstanding. We bought many of our Egyptian decorations for our bedroom in their gift shop. They give workshops and astronomy shows too.

TikiAno a dream come true for Dan. We once surfed in San Diego with my cousin. I got stung by a jelly fish but we had a fun time and did catch a few waves. Dan loves both your photos.

Progress Report:

I got out all the glazes it takes for the heads and made a pallet.

I did more than the glaze skips on each head. I decided to make them even better.

On our trip Dan found one tiki mug. It was only $7 and it was from Trader Vic's. This mug has a lot of chips on it but over all they did a horrible job on them. The glazes were full of popped bubbles and the tiki is rough. But maybe that adds character. I've always wanted to see if I could re-glaze a damaged vintage mug. So I picked out the colors.

I had Dan sand all the chips.

I painted the glaze on, 3 layers.

The heads and mug were put in the sun to dry.

Bottom shelf of the kiln.

I loaded the top shelf with the vintage mug far away from my good heads. I worry that it could come apart and I didn't want pieces to stick to my projects.

The kiln will open on Thursday. I won't re-glaze more heads until I see how these turned out. Meanwhile I'll work on the
Sacramento Crawl mug. Here's an update.

I counted 9 fingers on the wooden tiki so that's what the mug has here.

Notice how photos help. I can see the shape is different. I can redo this or say, "well the mug doesn't have to be a perfect match." Not sure if I'll change it.

Thank you for the visit, Wendy

Post #676206 by danlovestikis on Wed, May 1, 2013 6:43 AM