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 22, 2013 9:42 AM MadDogMike it sure seemed that way to me. It never left the flower to walk the rim. See you and Teresa in August. littlegiles I've seen packages of ladybugs for sale in nurseries but never thousands. I hope you have a photo to share. WaikikianMoeKele it was fun to watch, did your head arrive? tigertail777 I love sharing because you are all such a wonderful audience. You keep us going. Are you going to be at Tiki Kon in Portland? Maybe the bug likes white flowers? hang10tiki the visits are the best part. Photos too. I'll have to see what you post on Tiki Finds. Progress Report This summer will be focused on the Sacramento Crawl mug, the painting for Tiki Oasis and always Bob's here and there. We will also share our tiki events too. Yesterday I found that the bad mold was dry and then in the afternoon the hot dry wind made it possible to also pour the good mold. First up the bad mold. The sides are open. Inside the mold it looked good except for the areas that had broken off. When that happens you end up with more clay on the cast that you can carve off and repair. We tried to pour in a little slip and to rotate it to seal the leaks. Nope it just poured out. So I packed all the space between the mold pieces with clay to prevent the slip from getting out. Dan poured it in. I hammered the sides to get out the air bubbles that get trapped. My first test was to let the slip sit in the mold for two hours. Then we poured it out. As it poured out I watched the insides with a flash light to make sure that no excess was hanging up. It poured out well. It was placed on boards to drain and later in the day when the good mold was dry we poured it too. The good mold didn't need any clay on the sides it was leak free. I pulled off the clay from the sides of the bad mold. It is easier to get it off wet and having sat for those two hours there is no slip in liquid form so nothing will come out. Today I will open them both and see it I have a couple of tikis, one in good shape and one that will need detailing. So Dan's waiting it is time to go to work. Cheers, Wendy

MadDogMike it sure seemed that way to me. It never left the flower to walk the rim. See you and Teresa in August.

littlegiles I've seen packages of ladybugs for sale in nurseries but never thousands. I hope you have a photo to share.

WaikikianMoeKele it was fun to watch, did your head arrive?

tigertail777 I love sharing because you are all such a wonderful audience. You keep us going. Are you going to be at Tiki Kon in Portland? Maybe the bug likes white flowers?

hang10tiki the visits are the best part. Photos too. I'll have to see what you post on Tiki Finds.

Progress Report

This summer will be focused on the Sacramento Crawl mug, the painting for Tiki Oasis and always Bob's here and there. We will also share our tiki events too.

Yesterday I found that the bad mold was dry and then in the afternoon the hot dry wind made it possible to also pour the good mold.

First up the bad mold. The sides are open.

Inside the mold it looked good except for the areas that had broken off. When that happens you end up with more clay on the cast that you can carve off and repair.

We tried to pour in a little slip and to rotate it to seal the leaks. Nope it just poured out.

So I packed all the space between the mold pieces with clay to prevent the slip from getting out. Dan poured it in.

I hammered the sides to get out the air bubbles that get trapped.

My first test was to let the slip sit in the mold for two hours. Then we poured it out.

As it poured out I watched the insides with a flash light to make sure that no excess was hanging up. It poured out well.

It was placed on boards to drain and later in the day when the good mold was dry we poured it too. The good mold didn't need any clay on the sides it was leak free. I pulled off the clay from the sides of the bad mold. It is easier to get it off wet and having sat for those two hours there is no slip in liquid form so nothing will come out.

Today I will open them both and see it I have a couple of tikis, one in good shape and one that will need detailing.

So Dan's waiting it is time to go to work. Cheers, Wendy

Post #678911 by danlovestikis on Wed, May 22, 2013 9:42 AM