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 Wed, Aug 3, 2016 9:06 PM hang10tiki kingstiedye bamalamalu Heath thank you all for the well wishes. Just tonight it has started to feel better. If I wake up that way I'll be a happy camper. Well the wedding mug saga continues... I can't just make them out of thin air so the work to make the replacements begins. However I don't like to fire up my kiln with empty spaces so I decided to pour some extras. Of course if I had not sold the extras I would be in good shape. Oh well. Here's what I started a few weeks ago when those noses started to run. I decided that 20 mugs and two huge bowls would be enough. My Tiki Bob molds leak so to use them I plaster the bottoms with sticky clay. The leaks are too big to just add a bit of slip and rock the mold so it would go into the cracks and seal it. Once this clay is in place I do that too. I put a dry paper towel under each mold so that once it is upright the clay won't stick to the table and pull back out. Yes I learned the hard way. If one side of the mold is higher than the other I just build a dam so I can pour slip up to the top. Two hours later we poured out the slip and put them upside down. A day later with the Bobs removed we did it again. It took five days to cast the 20 Tiki Bob's. Four were failures with the slip too thick that it didn't all pour out. I will make four more lamp/torch Bobs. We ran out of slip and went to Alpha Fired Arts for more. When we get home I add water and Dan stirs with a baseball bat. Then he shakes the jugs for me. Now we filled the mold for a HUGE bowl cast. 3 hours later we poured out the slip. Then it went upside down. The next day I removed it from the mold. I put these cutting boards on it so I could flip it upside down. The bowl will not settle if there is air trapped inside for a couple of days. I just wrap it with the boards in place and put it on a shelf. More Tiki Bobs to carve is in my future. The wedding couple already said they needed an additional five so that' great. Cheers, Wendy

hang10tiki kingstiedye bamalamalu Heath thank you all for the well wishes. Just tonight it has started to feel better. If I wake up that way I'll be a happy camper.

Well the wedding mug saga continues...

I can't just make them out of thin air so the work to make the replacements begins. However I don't like to fire up my kiln with empty spaces so I decided to pour some extras. Of course if I had not sold the extras I would be in good shape. Oh well.

Here's what I started a few weeks ago when those noses started to run.

I decided that 20 mugs and two huge bowls would be enough. My Tiki Bob molds leak so to use them I plaster the bottoms with sticky clay.

The leaks are too big to just add a bit of slip and rock the mold so it would go into the cracks and seal it. Once this clay is in place I do that too.

I put a dry paper towel under each mold so that once it is upright the clay won't stick to the table and pull back out. Yes I learned the hard way.

If one side of the mold is higher than the other I just build a dam so I can pour slip up to the top.

Two hours later we poured out the slip and put them upside down.

A day later with the Bobs removed we did it again.

It took five days to cast the 20 Tiki Bob's. Four were failures with the slip too thick that it didn't all pour out. I will make four more lamp/torch Bobs.