Post #730479 by danlovestikis on Tue, Oct 28, 2014 7:41 PM

TikiG you are so welcome. Dan has your painting in his man cave. Each day I feel one of the pieces that I used the new sealer on and when it stays fine and not sticky I am so happy. I hope your stays fine from this point on. Thank you so much for the eerie photo, full of mystique.

TikiAno traffic used to be so light in the 50's. There's no more room in downtowns to widen the roads. How will it work in another 50 years? Better make some mass transit that is appealing.

Jon's photoshops were terrific, I agree.

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Dan's last request for awhile. He wants another huge volcano bowl with Frankoma (salt and pepper shaker) Tikis around the bowl.
I'll have fun sending a photo of the finished bowl to Jonice Frank when it's done. That's how we met. I made a bowl with her design and a friend sent her a photo. She called me at work to tell me how much she liked it and we became friends.

I poured in the slip and let it sit in the bowl mold for two hours.

Dumped out he excess slip but since I had to put the bowl back flat on the table I wiped out more that ran into the bottom from the sides.

Not too bad. I let it sit overnight exposed like this.

The next day I flipped the bowl over and labeled the bottom.

This is how I do the flipping. I just hold the two boards together and turn it over.

To make the volcano I'm going to use a tubular mug that I also cast.

I cut out a hole in the center of the bowl and

wiped sticky clay around the hole where I want to stick on the mug.

I stuck it in place.

Then I spread out the clay into the bowl.

I put more sticky clay on a long paintbrush.

After cutting the tip off the mug I wiped the sticky clay around the mug on the inside.

I began to press in the sides to form the volcano.

I pinched off the top.

Then using this wooden ball I made the indentation.

I started to form the volcano but it was too soft and

began to sink. Only the trapped air is keeping it from melting like the bad witch of OZ.

Dan keeps me busy with his own Wish List. I hope this helps you all make your volcanos. Wendy

[ Edited by: danlovestikis 2014-10-28 19:42 ]