Post #749547 by danlovestikis on Fri, Aug 21, 2015 8:41 PM

Time to do some catch up posting since we are home from Tiki Oasis 15.

I have been firing the Sacramento Crawl mugs.

Opening the kiln on each batch is really fun and scary too.

At long last all 60 are in the house and ready for inspection and numbering.

I then pair the mug with the box and signature card. We love our cat but she tears furniture to pieces so we always keep it covered unless we have company.

Out of the 60 I found 16 with tiny glaze skips or thin areas that needed to be worked on. The worst were two mugs that looked like the bird pooped on the sign on the back of the mug. See the center mug on the bottom. Crystal glazes which I used inside the mugs can spit during firing. That's what happened to some of the mugs. I'm not sure that can be fixed.

I took each mug and went over them and re-glazed any areas that could be improved.

I got carried away!

I then dried them in the wind and

loaded the kiln.

Until next time, Wendy