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D danlovestikis Grand Member (8 years) Joined: Jun 17, 2002 Posts: 9082	D danlovestikis Posted posted on Thu, Jun 25, 2015 9:57 AM bamalamalu my husband and I couldn't remember the word petroglyph and just gave up. Thank you so much. I went and changed it on that post. If you look at the first tiki I ever made in clay you would laugh. It just comes down to practice. I've been doing this for a number of years now. My first sculpt that wasn't laughable was the Bloody Maori that Gecko molded and produced since we were and are friends. Get some clay and just play with it. I started with Sculpey. TMJ is not fun. I'm lucky that it only hurt when I dislocated my jaw, now I'm careful and it's not painful. Good advice for those who are suffering. Thank you for your post. Reading messages like yours is what makes my day. lunavideogames we are looking forward to seeing you at Oasis. Dan is so excited to own the movie that has always been one of his favorites though he's only seen it twice 30 years ago. Now he'll watch it many more times. I'll watch it once with him. RVICTOR isn't it a small world of tiki. If you run into any more from my area...share, please. I need inspiration for next year. ================================ Part Two of making necklaces so I have extra stuff for the kiln. The second Sacramento crawl mug was a decanter. When I broke up that mold I kept the one piece from which I could cast Tiki Bob necklaces. This photo is an optical illusion. It actually is inverted. The molds are not flat so to keep enough slip filling Bob to the top of his head I make a dam. The next time I did this I just shimmed the bottoms with pencils. I fill them up for 2 hours and then pour the excess out. The next day I was able to easily remove them and later to trim off the excess clay. On of the molds always makes a whole bunch of tiny air bubbles in the slip. The holes are bigger than they look and you can't glaze over them. So I press then flat and then add clay on top and smooth it. Four done with holes for the string. I decided to make a few Moai necklaces too. So I cast one. Now I'm getting a pile that will help off set the cost of firing a mostly empty kiln. I started carving this Moai and when I finished he had a hand grenade belly. This one is just a fun in the garden Moai. I made a couple more and now it's time to let everything dry out. Cheers, Wendy [ Edited by: danlovestikis 2015-06-25 13:27 ]

bamalamalu my husband and I couldn't remember the word petroglyph and just gave up. Thank you so much. I went and changed it on that post.

If you look at the first tiki I ever made in clay you would laugh. It just comes down to practice. I've been doing this for a number of years now. My first sculpt that wasn't laughable was the Bloody Maori that Gecko molded and produced since we were and are friends. Get some clay and just play with it. I started with Sculpey.

TMJ is not fun. I'm lucky that it only hurt when I dislocated my jaw, now I'm careful and it's not painful. Good advice for those who are suffering.

Thank you for your post. Reading messages like yours is what makes my day.

lunavideogames we are looking forward to seeing you at Oasis. Dan is so excited to own the movie that has always been one of his favorites though he's only seen it twice 30 years ago. Now he'll watch it many more times. I'll watch it once with him.

RVICTOR isn't it a small world of tiki. If you run into any more from my area...share, please. I need inspiration for next year.

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Part Two of making necklaces so I have extra stuff for the kiln.

The second Sacramento crawl mug was a decanter. When I broke up that mold I kept the one piece from which I could cast Tiki Bob necklaces. This photo is an optical illusion. It actually is inverted.

The molds are not flat so to keep enough slip filling Bob to the top of his head I make a dam. The next time I did this I just shimmed the bottoms with pencils.