Post #766264 by danlovestikis on Fri, Jul 15, 2016 8:53 PM

The story of the wedding mugs continues first with the anticipation that one day they will be ready and so we bought and put together 18 boxes.

Dan's really happy to not have to box these for shipping.

Out of the kiln the two most important mugs came out just fine.

I didn't find a glaze in the right color of Raspberry to the pink lips and little flowers will be re-done with enamel.

The gold mugs came out just fine too.

Now the flowers and lips are close to the right colors.

There was one more request. I should have thought of it. They wanted the names on the back done in

white and gold.

Now all the enamel was done so I set it by baking in the oven.

7 of the brown wedding mugs had problems so I got out my dremmel.

I had to grind off all the brown glaze that had run onto the white faces. This glaze didn't work well at all.

I was able to grind off the brown while still leaving the clear glaze.

It looks good here but there is no shine in the area where I did the grinding. I tried fine steel wool, nope.

I bought this product but it wasn't good enough.

So in the end it was time to glaze these mugs again and to hope for the best.

First layers of white under-glaze and

let it dry each time.

Then layers of the clear.

Between every layer I took them outside to dry faster so I could keep going.

Out of the kiln I inspected each one and guess what? All the places I had re-glazed were perfect but the brown had now run in other areas.

Mostly it was under the noses. On one mug there was now a huge drip.

I got out the dremmel and went to work again until the runny noses and other areas were ground off.

I glazed with white and then

I glazed with clear.

There were two mugs that didn't need any more work. So my five fingers are crossed for these five mugs that they will be fine after the next firing.

Cheers, Wendy