Post #681857 by danlovestikis on Thu, Jun 13, 2013 9:23 AM

littlegiles I agree it is creepy. The volcano bowl may turn out good or bad as an experiment who knows. I'm the owner for now, later if it turns out...

hang10tiki I'm glad to see you are carving for the swap, that's sweeeeet!

littlegiles I was thinking that too. I've saved your picture in my photoshopped file, thank you.

Hale Tiki and he did a perfect job of placing my face there.

Progress Report

Here's the reason why you should step back and think things through before you grab a "bargain."
A while back Dan found some chux (a flat cotton with plastic backed square) at an estate sale. We used them up packaging tikis to ship. So when we were at another estate sale he had that in mind when he bought two more cases. However when I went to package tikis I found that chux and adult diapers are very different. So If you get a tiki in a diaper you'll know how it happened!

Number 31 and 32 poured,

cleaned and drying in the shed.

I found a shady spot in the backyard and started sanding the Sacramento Crawl mugs that had dried.

It takes 20 to 30 minutes each to do it well.

One down.

On the bottom I added c (with) Dan, Sac Tiki Crawl c (copy write) 2013 and a box for numbering.

It was so pleasant and a cool breeze was blowing and then a chain saw started. I got up to see what was going on out back.

Our neighbors had their palm trees pruned. It was really loud but I kept working.

Then Dan showed up to dust off the mugs I was sanding so we could fire them. Now I had horrible noise on both sides...but I kept working.

My hands and arms gave up after 4 hours so I loaded the kiln about half full and ran it all night.

Next we poured mugs #33 and #34.

Volcano Bowl step by steps have begun.

First I carved my name etc. on the bottom of the bowl.

Then I flipped it over. Even wrapped it had firmed up. I added clay where the sides were thinner and smoothed it to match the thickness all the way around.

I choose the size for the volcano using a funnel. I'm making it large since I'm experimenting with glaze.

I then cut a large piece of clay using the funnel to mark the size.

Then I begun to roll it on the table top. I pushed harder on one end so that it would become cone shaped.

Next I dug out the inside 3/4th of the way up.

Once it is firmer I'll remove more clay.

Now I have the top of the volcano with a platform inside for burning rum soaked sugar cubes.

Now I need to go clean up those two mugs that just came out of the molds.
Thank you so much for your comments, visits and photos. You all give me energy to keep going.

Cheers, Wendy