Post #686115 by Jürka on Tue, Jul 16, 2013 3:56 PM

Report of today...

I had poured three molds and now I opened them.

Now the biggest problem...
...is that when the clayman is lying in the mold for few days, the water goes out, the guy goes shorter... and shaped places of his face will get stuck in the mold and the mold is breaking them pretty heavily. It's a real problem now for me.

So... Today I poured next three claymen... and tomorrow I will put them horizontal and open the front part, so that the change of size would not hurt them. I don't know how it works, but we'll see...

The next biggest problem...
...is that I have no idea how to make that bottom indent... To push it later with that wooden ring will harm it... pretty bad... I don't want to do it this way... even not together with lot of water... Maybe I try to make the ring with simple divider and just to dig it little bit with clay-instruments and fingers... I don't know, it's not easy... and to write some words in it is also not the easiest, Maybe I will figure out some stancil for cutting or something... We'll see... I think I will write it after it's dry...

Anyway... I'm not happy with those guys I opened today... We'll see if my idea of opening the front part in very early stage works... There may happen that the clay-guy will slump flat when it's not vertical... or that when the front part will dry better (because it's open), then it bends because the other part will stay bigger longer time... or something like that may happen. Can't know before I haven't tried...