Post #739951 by danlovestikis on Mon, Mar 23, 2015 8:44 PM

Prgress Report for Wish List #5

Everything was dry and now it was time to sand. I always prefer to wait and do it all at once because of the mess.

I started with the large lamps and their lids.

Just that one lamp made this much clay dust. Yes I am wearing a mask.

Between mugs I scrap the dust into piles and wet it down and then put it into the garbage.

Now that I had practiced on Dan's lamp I worked on Tyber Tikis Lamp.

I kept sanding the lid until it was the same size as the top opening.

Next up were kingtiesdye's two projects the Franken Fink

and the Dave Burke's Death Tiki.

Then came the necklace for IDoVooDoo. I did a lot of fine tune carving on this one and then sanded it.

Then came his coconut project.

Next was the hat for Rasta Bob for Tiki Wahini. I added more texture to the hat.

I realized that I needed more space for glaze or the hat wouldn't fit so I carved out some more clay. I hope I guessed right.

Here's her mug next to the one for K.G. McNeil.

After I sand each mug I take it out to Dan.

Here he is blowing off the dust on Professor G's mugs with the compressor. This photo is staged for beauty. When he's really doing it the mask is ON!

Now I began to sand the extra projects.

Dan keeps working and

I keep sanding and

sanding.

The bottom level of the kiln is loaded.

Dan dusted the two lamps and

I put them on the top shelf all alone. The kiln is turned on. A preheat of 1 hour (because I'm sure they are dry) and a slow ramp of 13.5 hours. This will take 2 days while they cool down to room temperature.

One last mess to clean up!

With this load the entire Wish List will have been fired. Fingers crossed that nothing blows up.

Cheers, Wendy

[ Edited by: danlovestikis 2015-03-23 20:45 ]