Post #748124 by RVICTOR on Wed, Jul 29, 2015 8:07 AM

Aloha tiki familia,

Hang10 - Thanks. Looks like we will be in Vegas this Christmas. We will have to see if we can meet at Frankie's or Golden Tiki?

It's been a little while since my last post. Life is getting in the way this month for sure...have missed two weeks straight of the workshop, which means no firing and no finished work to share. Still working on the Taki Tiki mugs and it will be a couple more weeks until things start getting finished.

Thought that a few of you might enjoy the attached photo though...

I learned allot at Tiki Kon. The artists there were helpful and I came to the realization that there were some things that I would need to do in order to improve...I continue having a problem with my glazing consistency...it just sucks in my opinion. I see other peoples finished products and I know I have a long way to go. I found out that one key to getting the glazing down is to spray the mugs.

So I saved a little money and dropped a few dollars on an airbrushing setup. I know that the spray gun method is faster, but I don't have allot of room, so this was a compact alternative that will get me working in the right direction...I am quickly learning that producing in any volume is difficult and I am going to have to work on both speeding up the process and getting better quality from the glazing. I sprayed about 5 of the Taki Tiki mugs and ran out of glaze...boy was it faster. Look forward to seeing how they look out of the kiln.