Post #736849 by danlovestikis on Sat, Feb 7, 2015 10:31 AM

Tyber Tiki I have put your name on #9, thank you. But just to be sure that you saw that it is a statue and now a small mug.

I've been going through a bunch of Maori books to find the right style of carving for the back. If you have any preference or photos send them to me right away! I like having you transfixed by your HUGE mug!

PockyTiki it is so true that seeing art inspires art. You better start a step by step thread for your painting. If you have a thread start adding to it. Post a link to your art HERE. This is a place to share.

I like your response to my art but you better stop when you are painting!

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A very long time ago...2010...I didn't know how to make molds so I had Gecko and Babalu help me so that I could make runs of mugs. Now that a friend of kingstiedye Mike L. has taught us how to make them I share what I've learned over and over again. Repetition is the best way to learn. Dan and I have finally gotten it down so that we don't have massive leaks and other problems.

So I'm once again sharing. These molds were made a couple of months ago and I saved the photos to put up when I have taken time off to relax. Yep we don't make tikis every single day. We try but it's important to have down time.

A while back I made three mugs by hand. They are blanks that I can alter just like Tiki Bob. I can make them into drums or add tikis to the sides, anything is possible.

But first I must mold these three mugs so that I have the blanks to play with.

This will be our first time to do three molds at the same time. We took three days to do it.

First we bought the best plaster there is for mold making.

Then we went to Home Depot to buy more clamps and some wood.

This is an older photo from when I first found the perfect blocks at ToysRUs. I used them to make the HUGE Maori mold.

I marked all the piece to the sizes I needed and

Dan earned another mug by cutting them for me.

One too many interruptions for photos!

We then cut these strips of wood and screwed them onto one end of each piece. These are for the clamps.

Just in case it would make the wood absorb less water I sprayed them all with varnish. They was an experiment.

I put the three molds together and then I realized that I would have enough blocks to fill the bottoms.

We went back to ToysRUs and bought all they had!

Back home again we made a table from saw horses and a big piece of plywood.

This was the end of DAY ONE. We have the molds ready and now I'll go to work so we can make 3 molds at once.

I hope this will help someone realize their dream. I've found mine with all of you, thank you. Cheers, Wendy