SWIZ - Mugs 'n' Stuff....yep! More lamps (and some pendants). - Other Crafts

S swizzle Tiki Socialite Melbourne,Australia Joined: Jun 03, 2007 Posts: 1449	S swizzle Posted posted on Tue, May 7, 2013 5:33 AM Thanks Lori. Thanks Wendy. It is a beautiful blue but it seems to have come out slightly different to when i used it last. I think it's because the base clay it was applied to is grey not white. Swizz is going GROG. :D Thanks tigertail777. SINGS is a good way to describe it. The colour combination works really well together i think. And i like the kitty too. Cheers Hale Tiki. Although you say it looks a little modern it appears the design might have come from the 60's by a company called NAPCO. Just a quick update. I had a handful of new glazes arrive so i did a few tests with them on my usual 'SWIZ' and 'Careless Navigator' logos. I'm just posting this picture of the cat to show the difference in the glaze when it comes to shape of the piece. You can see that a lot of the black spots ran and left lines on the cat whereas on the both my logo and the CN one they stayed as spots as both those pieces were laying flat in the kiln when they were fired. And i also glazed and fired another bowl. This was my original idea when i first made the mold, to join two of them together back to back and make a cavity in the top of the head for some overproof rum which you could light. After i pulled the first tiki from the mold it looked like the base with two joined together would be too large to fit inside the bowl but i gave it a go anyway and this is the result. It actually fits fine bit takes up a lot of room so you end up with a bowl that would only really hold one drink. I've thought about maybe carving away a couple of rocks so that the liquid can get inside the tiki and therefore hold more liquid/booze. The rocks came out a lot darker than i was hoping. I had a little black glaze left in the jar and added some white to it but didn't do a test sample so it is nowhere near as light as i would have liked it. I also did as i mentioned in my previous post where i glazed the pieces seperately and let them fuse together. It worked fine. (I usually take my pics outside but it was a miserable day here today so i had to take them under lights inside.) Until the next time. Cheers swizzle

Thanks Lori.

Thanks Wendy. It is a beautiful blue but it seems to have come out slightly different to when i used it last. I think it's because the base clay it was applied to is grey not white.

Swizz is going GROG. :D

Thanks tigertail777. SINGS is a good way to describe it. The colour combination works really well together i think. And i like the kitty too.

Cheers Hale Tiki. Although you say it looks a little modern it appears the design might have come from the 60's by a company called NAPCO.

Just a quick update. I had a handful of new glazes arrive so i did a few tests with them on my usual 'SWIZ' and 'Careless Navigator' logos.

I'm just posting this picture of the cat to show the difference in the glaze when it comes to shape of the piece. You can see that a lot of the black spots ran and left lines on the cat whereas on the both my logo and the CN one they stayed as spots as both those pieces were laying flat in the kiln when they were fired.

And i also glazed and fired another bowl. This was my original idea when i first made the mold, to join two of them together back to back and make a cavity in the top of the head for some overproof rum which you could light. After i pulled the first tiki from the mold it looked like the base with two joined together would be too large to fit inside the bowl but i gave it a go anyway and this is the result. It actually fits fine bit takes up a lot of room so you end up with a bowl that would only really hold one drink. I've thought about maybe carving away a couple of rocks so that the liquid can get inside the tiki and therefore hold more liquid/booze.

The rocks came out a lot darker than i was hoping. I had a little black glaze left in the jar and added some white to it but didn't do a test sample so it is nowhere near as light as i would have liked it. I also did as i mentioned in my previous post where i glazed the pieces seperately and let them fuse together. It worked fine.

(I usually take my pics outside but it was a miserable day here today so i had to take them under lights inside.)

Until the next time.

Cheers
swizzle

Post #676985 by swizzle on Tue, May 7, 2013 5:33 AM