Post #735913 by danlovestikis on Sat, Jan 24, 2015 9:04 PM

VampiressRN the first produced Frankoma War God was HUGE. To make the smaller one they would cast, bisque fire, mold. Then they would take the smaller one and again cast, bisque fire and mold. Each one was progressively smaller than the last one since drying and firing shrinks the mug. They kept doing this until they had the smaller one in the right size. All the molds were destroyed in their devastating fire shown on page one of this thread. That is one reason that there were so few ever made.

All the small War Gods are clones of the first big one. This shows that at one time BIG drinks were being made. They stopped making the big ones because they were stolen too often from the bar that had them.

hang10tiki just stay near the bathroom and all will be just fine.

Tyber Tiki maybe I should do what Frankoma Pottery did and fire yours or the next one, mold it and keep going until I have a small version.

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Carving Tyber Tiki's HUGE Maori mug/lamp began today. The doodads were firm enough. I started at the top so that any clay that fell wouldn't get stuck in an indentation.

Almost immediately I saw that I wasn't centered very well. So I did a very unprofessional thing. I carved an extra line.

I kept on carving even though I knew it looked bad.

My gut said Wendy you can't do this so I spent an hour fixing it better until I was satisfied that I wouldn't be fired.

Doing it by hand is really hard and takes a lot of time. I continuously "sand" it with water.

I got a good start. This is a challenge. I have to carve it as well as I can. It will not match the photo any longer.

Cheers, Wendy