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, Feb 8, 2015 10:22 AM hang10tiki that really dark photo took some close up inspection. Good to see Janelle was keeping an eye on you men! Yep we have tiki fun every day. We don't hate mold making any more now that we don't have problems like major leaks. It's fun to see you all having at good time. Thank you for letting us all join in. ====================== Day Two of making 3 molds at once. I only need to make each a 3 piece mold. Two sides and a bottom piece. To do that I must find the exact halfway point of each mug and to mark it so I can work the clay when it's in the box. I'm sure there is an easier way but I don't know it. I measure around three parts of the mug. I make one straight line top to bottom. From this line I measure around half way. Then I draw the last line straight up. Next I get out the blocks and as needed I cut them to fit even better. One. Two. Three. Dan made snakes for me to run up the joints. First I use blocks so I can use less clay. This formed piece at the top of the mug will be the opening in the mold in which to pour in the slip when the mold is done. Working on the bottoms. This piece will eventually be removed and a piece will be poured to make a bottom. It fits. Now I will add clay and bring the clay to the half point lines on each side of the mug. Both sides are done and Dan made so many snakes that I had plenty to run up the joints on all three molds. This is a bisque mug so I had to saturate it with a lot of mold soap so the new plaster mold wouldn't fuse to it. I put the indentations for locks into the clay. Dan's ready to mix. I do the measuring and it's just right. We poured it into the first mold and then cleaned up. One done. When the plaster was hard I carved an outline of what the mug looks like. Poured. Cleaned up. Two done. The third one is prepped. The plaster is poured. All three are done and so are we. It's a very long day. Each mold has one piece done. Tomorrow we will do two pieces each and finish the molds. I hope this helps and the fear of mold making is going away for all of you who want to do this. Cheers, Wendy [ Edited by: danlovestikis 2015-02-08 10:24 ]

hang10tiki that really dark photo took some close up inspection. Good to see Janelle was keeping an eye on you men!
Yep we have tiki fun every day. We don't hate mold making any more now that we don't have problems like major leaks.
It's fun to see you all having at good time. Thank you for letting us all join in.

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Day Two of making 3 molds at once.

I only need to make each a 3 piece mold. Two sides and a bottom piece. To do that I must find the exact halfway point of each mug and to mark it so I can work the clay when it's in the box. I'm sure there is an easier way but I don't know it.

I measure around three parts of the mug.

I make one straight line top to bottom.

From this line I measure around half way. Then I draw the last line straight up.

Next I get out the blocks and as needed I cut them to fit even better.

One.

Two.

Three.

Dan made snakes for me to run up the joints.

First I use blocks so I can use less clay. This formed

piece at the top of the mug will be the opening in the mold in which to pour in the slip when the mold is done.

Working on the bottoms.

This piece will eventually be removed and a piece will be poured to make a bottom.

It fits. Now I will add clay

and bring the clay to the half point lines on each side of the mug.

Both sides are done and

Dan made so many snakes

that I had plenty to run up the joints on all three molds. This is a bisque mug so I had to saturate it with a lot of mold soap so the new plaster mold wouldn't fuse to it. I put the indentations for locks into the clay.