Post #767405 by danlovestikis on Sat, Aug 13, 2016 8:14 AM

hang10tiki it will hang on a wall in the future. But for now it's fun to see right there.

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Hot Tub Hula Girls Phase Four. These were to be done with the next Wish List #7 but I'm slowly doing them now. I should have them shipped before the WL even starts.

I completely wet the mug and let it sit for an hour. Then I pour in the glaze and let it sit for 30 seconds. If I don't wet the mug is will suck up too much glaze and be too thick when fired. Next, I always have problems when it comes to pouring out the glaze.

So this time I sucked up glaze with a turkey baster and when the level was down by half I was able to pour out the rest without it going all over the top half of the girl.

One down.

It took a day of standing in the kitchen but I got all of these glazed on the inside.

A few days later they were taken from the kitchen to the family room so Dan can fix dinner. A home tiki factory has its downside.

Next I used a wet brush to fine tune the line of glaze around the body.

Next I did a couple of layers of the blue glaze around the body to make sure it was thick enough.

Now these dried for a couple of days. Back in the kitchen.

To do the coconut I use a Duncan CY glaze called Iron Ore. I've found that one layer is just right or it runs to the bottom of the coconut. I leave a little square unglazed so I can write the number of the mug in the box. It's good to write this on the jar.

I did all the bottoms and then

they went outside to dry.

The next step is glazing the outside of the coconut.

Then back outside to dry completely.

The next day they are back into the house so I can start the hardest part.

I've found that to make the skin even I must glaze it with Duncan's CN glaze and to do FOUR layers.

It takes me two days to do ONE layer on 30 mugs.

Here they are waiting for the next THREE layers.