Post #686240 by Jürka on Wed, Jul 17, 2013 2:43 PM

Thanks for reply...

The first time I took it out on the next day (around 12...24 hours) and when I put it on it's feet (no, my tikis have only heads), the bottom part was much more wet than the upper part, because there is not much air in the bottom... and it was too soft and... and...

Well, that was yesterday's stuff... Now update!
So... today... I opened front parts of the molds and... it was still too late... I poured again and... I'd say... After 30 min must slip it out and from that time 2...2,5 hours should open the front part... I did it and it looks good... Well, today I started to use old clay, which was poured out, cut off, found from here and there... and hard mixing and everything and had again little bubble problem because of it, so one clay-guy I cancelled and threw away... but other I hope are pretty ok.

My idea is that I want to use fingers as less as possible... I want to keep them original shape as wood... With working on it later, it doesn't give the same true look... But here is my question: Does fingerprints and little variations will be seen under the glaze or maybe the glaze is the thing that makes miracles?

Anyway... those new guys... which I opened after 2...2,5 hours... They really look clean... All the small details exactly as on wooden guy...

There is still big question for me... that bottom thing... I don't like that finger-way too much... because I'm afraid it will look different on each mug... and I guess it would never look as clean as it should... I think I should find some cone-shape thing instead of round-shape... I don't know... That's one big question for me... All the ideas are welcome!

Another question: Does every little airbubble inside mug means explosion in kiln? ...and if there is some 10 pcs of mugs in kiln and one will explode, does it mean the death for all of them who are chilling around in the same kiln?

Oh! And one more thing! I'm not struggling! Let's say other way... I'm discovering the world of ceramics! :D I will do it again and again and again, learn the best ways by my practice and exercise my hands, fingers, tactics, eyes, and everything... Once I was lookin' for anybody I could know who would know anything about ceramics... Nope, there's nobody... Everybody is building cars, playing rock'n'roll, drinking beer, having babies... But no clay-stuff around here... Nope... But there's a Tiki-forum for that... :D Yeap...

[ Edited by: Jürka 2013-07-17 15:51 ]

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