Post #752569 by danlovestikis on Wed, Oct 14, 2015 1:08 PM

Tikiwahini wonderful. No worries. If he falls apart in the kiln I'll make him again. It's easier the second time around.

LoriLovesTiki thank you. Getting it all put back together was harder than making him. I hope he is fine. It's awhile before I fire these. I need to make a whole load first.

hang10tiki what a fun trip. It's also nice to have closure by going to a cemetery. The one I visited was at Trinity Church on Manhattan Island, New York. I wanted to see where Alexander Hamilton was buried. He was right next to Robert Fulton who invented the steam ship. I wonder if they new each other.

RVICTOR thank you, the challenge will be the glazing.

Progress Report on Wish List #6 Jen Tiki's bowl based on little lost tiki's painting (with his permission)

I will be making the bowl minus the background tikis hanging on it.

I cast a bowl on August 29th.

I put plastic wrap on it so it wouldn't stick and

Dan flipped it over onto a board for me.

The next day we removed the mold and

wrapped the bowl in plastic. Once the mold was dry

we did it again. I need taller sides for this bowl and I need to combine the two and trim off the excess.

6 weeks have passed and it's time to make Jen Tiki's bowl.

I start to cut the first bowl to add to the second and find that it has dried out and is super brittle. It just breaks up.

I know that I'll not be able to use these for her bowl. So now I need to see if I can make something else. So the part still intact I add to the second bowl. I cut out the center.

I will use this for a necklace.

Next I start to build a volcano.

Then I add clay to the sides. I hope that keeping this in a bag for a month will help all the clay to come to the same state of moisture. If it doesn't it will crack.

Here's how it looked at the end.

Backside.

So after the crawl ended I cast two more bowls.

Today I added slip to the edge of one and

then some sticky clay so that I can stick them together.

I lifted the second bowl into place and then

they both just started melting.

So I cut off the excess clay and

saved the two centers. I'll think

of something to use them on in the future.

So now it's the Goldilocks' story. One was too dry and one was too wet. The next two will have to be just right!
Sorry Jen. Now I'll start on someone else's Wish while I cast two new bowls.

It's not just Gilligan who gets in trouble. Cheers, Wendy

[ Edited by: danlovestikis 2015-10-14 13:28 ]