Wendy Cevola - New colors of the Frank mug by Frankoma now available. - Other Crafts

D danlovestikis Grand Member (8 years) Joined: Jun 17, 2002 Posts: 9082	D danlovestikis Posted posted on Sun, Jun 5, 2016 1:34 PM hang10tiki thank you for the smiling face. ========================================= SACRAMENTO CRAWL MUG 2016. It took three months to cast 70 mugs. We had a trip during this time that halted production. It is a real commitment to make a run of mugs. There are so many steps. Here's a brief show of those months. I set up a table in the hallway for the crawl mugs. The dining room table was covered with the Wish List #6 pieces in progress. I finally decided to build leaves and to wilt them on the top of each mug. Out of the mold the detail wasn't as much as I wanted so I hand carved the detail into each section on the back. It now looks like I wanted. I will just have to sculpt better in the future. I always put Dan to work. He's my heavy lifter and this mold is around 35 pounds when filled. One by one they start to add up. These mugs are so huge and I cast them to be thick that we keep running out of slip. When we bring it home I add water and we mix it up. They make it thick where we buy it so in a way it's a bargain. It is fun to watch them add up. Sometimes we have company and I get to show off our work. Every day we pour a mug. The next day we open the mold and I take it inside to fine tune all the parts. The mold dries from 6 am until 3 PM and then we pour the next mug. The table is slowly filling up. Ten days later I have 40 mugs on the table and we went shopping to buy another table for the next 30. Back to the store for more slip and then we mixed it up with water again. Every day I finish off a mug and then get back to the Wish List #6. In the background you can see the second table is beginning to fill up with mugs. Now I've done 20 more and placed them on the second table. 10 days later you can see how well the mugs on table one have dried. I have marked the mold with #70 the last mug I will pour now. Here it is out of the mold. No catastrophes so far. This photo shows that I have 70 total mugs drying. From the other end of the hallway you can see both tables are loaded. This was a huge project and there's so much more to do. Good thing I started on January 1st 2016! Cheers, Wendy

hang10tiki thank you for the smiling face.

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SACRAMENTO CRAWL MUG 2016. It took three months to cast 70 mugs. We had a trip during this time that halted production. It is a real commitment to make a run of mugs.
There are so many steps. Here's a brief show of those months.

I set up a table in the hallway for the crawl mugs. The dining room table was covered with the Wish List #6 pieces in progress.

I finally decided to build leaves and to wilt them on the top of each mug.

Out of the mold the detail wasn't as much as I wanted so I hand carved

the detail into each section on the back.

It now looks like I wanted. I will just have to sculpt better in the future.

I always put Dan to work. He's my heavy lifter and this mold is around 35 pounds when filled.

One by one they start to add up.

These mugs are so huge and I cast them to be thick that we keep running out of slip. When we bring it home I add water and we mix it up. They make it thick where we buy it so in a way it's a bargain.

It is fun to watch them add up. Sometimes we have company and I get to show off our work.

Every day we pour a mug. The next day we open the mold and I take it inside to fine tune all the parts. The mold dries from 6 am until 3 PM and then we pour the next mug.