Post #698448 by danlovestikis on Mon, Nov 4, 2013 4:57 PM

hang10tiki thank you, I hope she stays that way.

WaikikianMoeKele thank you. I'm looking forward to seeing you work on your album swap art.

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A few years back I made mugs based on the Lanai in San Mateo, CA. There are 3 tikis and the Hawaiian words on the bottom under each one say Eat Drink and be Merry. Well one of them that I made for Dan had the glaze start to pop off. If any of you have anything I've made that had problems please contact me so I can fix it.

Here's how I fixed Dan's mug.

I love old dental tools.

I just tried my best to pick off any glaze that would come off. Then I rubbed it all over with a wire brush.

I scrubbed the mug and let it dry overnight. Then I picked a grey sparkle glaze to use.

I painted three layers

on all the tikis.

I turned it upside down and checked all the tikis for missed areas. Then I filled in the words with this same glaze and touched up the bottom rim with the satin red.

Now it waits until it is kiln time.

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While I'm on a roll I got the last crawl mug that I hadn't glazed and covered it in the same sparkle glaze.

Then I got one of the glaze test crawl mugs that looked bad and covered it with another color. It's really easy to cover and existing glaze with another one. It's risky because if the glaze is too thick it can run but it also can make a whole new color.

This is what I choose for the mug.

Starting.

I just did two layers since it had three in brown.

That's it for today. Cheers, Wendy