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 Sun, Oct 12, 2014 4:48 PM hang10tiki you are Super awesome! Thank you for checking in so often. You are Tiki Ano especially keep me motivated to post. ====================================== We went on a tiki road trip. We stayed the night in Pleasanton near San Jose. We found some fun tiki things that I'll be sharing soon. Meanwhile we have started to pour some Tiki Bob's that I use as bases for making the Wish List mug. I just cover up Bob's face and go from there. I bet I make a few for Dan along the way. I'm not quite ready to do the Wish List because I'm still working on the Zombie Torch mugs. Here's what our days are looking like right now. We went to Alpha Fired Arts for slip. I was all out. We have them fill our jugs half full because they make their slip thick. I like to assembly line my work so I took off all the lids and added the right amount of water. I tested first with one. Then using a potato masher I masked in the water. Then I finished them up with hand, my hand mixer. That way I can check to make sure the mix is just right. My Tiki Bob molds were made by us from my own clay sculptures. They are very leaky after many casts. So every time I do two things. The first is to dam up the cracks with clay. Every crack aka seams between pieces. Then we pour in some slip and tip the mold to run the slip where the pieces join. This too will seal it. Dan shakes it up before pouring. I pound the side with a rubber mallet when he fills the mold. Then they sit for two hours. Dan does the clean up for me. He works for tikis. The excess slip is poured out by Dan while I watch the insides with a flashlight. I make sure that none hangs up inside the mug. Sometimes I need to use a stick to urge it out. They they sit upside down overnight. The next day we open the molds and remove the Tiki Bob's. The molds are put outside with fans on them to dry so that by the afternoon we can pour again. I clean all the mold lines off the mugs and put them in Heafty bags to keep them from drying out. It all starts over again, every day. This photo was taken by Tiki Hula. Cheers, Wendy [ Edited by: danlovestikis 2014-10-12 16:49 ]

hang10tiki you are Super awesome! Thank you for checking in so often. You are Tiki Ano especially keep me motivated to post.

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We went on a tiki road trip. We stayed the night in Pleasanton near San Jose. We found some fun tiki things that I'll be sharing soon.

Meanwhile we have started to pour some Tiki Bob's that I use as bases for making the Wish List mug. I just cover up Bob's face and go from there. I bet I make a few for Dan along the way. I'm not quite ready to do the Wish List because I'm still working on the Zombie Torch mugs.

Here's what our days are looking like right now.

We went to Alpha Fired Arts for slip. I was all out.

We have them fill our jugs half full because they make their slip thick.

I like to assembly line my work so I took off all the lids and

added the right amount of water. I tested first with one.

Then using a potato masher I masked in the water.

Then I finished them up with hand, my hand mixer. That way I can check to make sure the mix is just right.

My Tiki Bob molds were made by us from my own clay sculptures. They are very leaky after many casts. So every time I do two things. The first is to dam up the cracks with clay.

Every crack aka seams between pieces.

Then we pour in some slip and tip the mold to run the slip where the pieces join. This too will seal it.

Dan shakes it up before pouring.

I pound the side with a rubber mallet when he fills the mold.

Then they sit for two hours.

Dan does the clean up for me. He works for tikis.

The excess slip is poured out by Dan while I watch the insides with a flashlight. I make sure that none hangs up inside the mug.
Sometimes I need to use a stick to urge it out.

They they sit upside down overnight.

The next day we open the molds and remove the Tiki Bob's.

The molds are put outside with fans on them to dry so that by the afternoon we can pour again.

I clean all the mold lines off the mugs and put them in Heafty bags to keep them from drying out.

It all starts over again, every day. This photo was taken by Tiki Hula.

Cheers, Wendy

[ Edited by: danlovestikis 2014-10-12 16:49 ]

Post #729497 by danlovestikis on Sun, Oct 12, 2014 4:48 PM