Wendy Cevola - New colors of the Frank mug by Frankoma now available. - Other Crafts

D danlovestikis Grand Member (8 years) Joined: Jun 17, 2002 Posts: 9082	D danlovestikis Posted posted on Mon, Mar 24, 2014 8:59 PM Chippy you are such a fun guy, thank you. hang10tiki we are fans of your art, both in carving and photo shopping. Dan wants the cast now. Thank you for the Old Faithful geyser vintage post card. I saw that geyser go off so many times. In the cold mornings it looked that huge. You are a sweetheart. TikiHula are you coming on Saturday or Sunday? Either could be the right day. LoriLovesTiki and when I read these messages I'm smiling too. VampiressRN it was really fun. We missed you terribly. I went off my no oil diet and had some hot chips and chicken. That was wonderful. ======================================================================= Update on the progress for the Sacramento Crawl Mug 2014. We buy our jugs of slip in gallon jugs that are only half filled. The slip is always too concentrated to use. By having the jugs half empty I can pour in water to make it just right. I mix the slip with my hand so that I can tell when it's perfect. The molds had to dry a long time. We tried it outdoors and in the kiln shed. Eventually they were ready to use. I hadn't labeled one yet so I did it now with a carving tool. Now I have two molds ready to pour into. While Dan poured I beat the outside with a rubber mallet. Then Dan did his cleanup chores. Two hours later it was time to pour them out and turn them upside down. The next day we opened them for the first time. It was fun to see that they had turned out. Leaving the mug in part of the mold held it while I cleaned some of the mold lines off. I used my scraper tool again to cut part of the top off. Then I cut the rest of the top off. Always wet your tool as you use it to prevent dragging. Cut off and viewing it from the top. The very first two mugs out of the molds. I checked the mugs and found that one had a tiny part missing. So I carved a piece out of the mold so that it would have it in the rest of the casts. I then added clay to the mug to replace the tiny missing piece. We went shopping for more slip. Dan did his happy dance for you. I got ready to mix in more water. I decided that the mugs needed more carving on the sides. So I re-do every one of the mugs by hand. I even re-carve the lettering on the bottoms. I always do everything I can to make my art look it's best. Here's a finished Sacramento Crawl mug. We have been casting two a day when we are home since 2/25/14. Tomorrow will be 3/25/14 and we will pour mugs #49 and #50. Each of these photos show more mugs on the shelves. I have been doing these along with the Wish List projects and the kickstarter project for Tiki Atari. We live in a tiki decorated house and we make tikis. We love our tiki friends. We have good lives that are interesting because we found our niche. I hope you all stay tiki too. Cheers, Wendy [ Edited by: danlovestikis 2014-03-24 21:05 ] [ Edited by: danlovestikis 2014-03-24 23:03 ]

Chippy you are such a fun guy, thank you.

hang10tiki we are fans of your art, both in carving and photo shopping. Dan wants the cast now. Thank you for the Old Faithful geyser vintage post card. I saw that geyser go off so many times. In the cold mornings it looked that huge. You are a sweetheart.

TikiHula are you coming on Saturday or Sunday? Either could be the right day.

LoriLovesTiki and when I read these messages I'm smiling too.

VampiressRN it was really fun. We missed you terribly. I went off my no oil diet and had some hot chips and chicken. That was wonderful.

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Update on the progress for the Sacramento Crawl Mug 2014.

We buy our jugs of slip in gallon jugs that are only half filled. The slip is always too concentrated to use. By having the jugs half empty I can pour in water to make it just right.

I mix the slip with my hand so that I can tell when it's perfect.

The molds had to dry a long time. We tried it outdoors and

in the kiln shed. Eventually they were ready to use.

I hadn't labeled one yet so I did it now with a carving tool.

Now I have two molds ready to pour into.

While Dan poured I beat the outside with a rubber mallet.

Then Dan did his cleanup chores.

Two hours later it was time

to pour them out

and

turn them upside down.

The next day we opened them for the first time.

It was fun to see that they had turned out.

Leaving the mug in part of the mold held it while I cleaned some of the mold lines off.

I used my scraper tool again to cut part of the top off.

Then I cut the rest of the top off. Always wet your tool as you use it to prevent dragging.

Cut off and viewing it from the top.

The very first two mugs out of the molds.

I checked the mugs and found that one had a tiny part missing. So I carved a piece out of the mold so that it would have it in the rest of the casts. I then added clay to the mug to replace the tiny missing piece.