Post #686748 by Jürka on Sun, Jul 21, 2013 12:46 PM

New problems, new questions!

So, now I have started to clean the bottoms and tops... That's how I found out that yeap, there's many bubbles of each of them... I guess I have to try that good drying method, because I have no idea how to prevent air-bubbles even better as I do it.

But now... With those bottoms and tops... Walls of the mug are not exactly same thick, there's always some places thinner than others... And now, when I'm doing that top... It will not be in round shape... More like pancake shape... What do y'all think? Is it ok? Or maybe it shows bad handcraft work? I could make them near round by scalpel, but I'm not sure if it would look better then... For me... in case of tiki mugs... it doesn't bother... Maybe it's even more interesting and old-school look... On your mugs, is it important that they would be all straight? For example some of mine has happened to be bended (very little)... How important is for you the bottom? If it's not seen, then it doesn't have to be 100% calendered? Or even if it's not seen, everything should be still perfect? What do you think about these things? Is it important that all the same mugs would be exactly same size (length) by every millimeter?

And now... What has been done... There's three of them (one of each kind) in other room drying... Here most of them are garbage... At moment I have 5 Kumuhonuas, 3 Lonos and 3 Kus which could be almost ok for kiln (if they would not explode)... Ofcourse they need lot of cleaning, tops are not done yet on this picture, I cleaned pretty much after this photo was clicked.