Post #771378 by danlovestikis on Thu, Dec 22, 2016 8:51 AM

hang1tiki you sure know where to search out photos.

Tiki Ano your dog was nice to let hang10tiki use his hand. After Christmas I'll be sure to have him return it.

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Progress Report on the Sacramento Crawl mug and misc.

It's time to pour the first crawl mug the date is 11/17/16. This is the earliest start I have ever had. It's also the longest list of Wishes I've ever had to make. So as you can see I didn't wait for the new year. I started everything plus extras in October.

I carve into the mold so I can keep track of how many I've made without counting the mugs.

We lined up the three molds. The Maori wall-hanging, the crawl mug, the Tropic's tiki wall-hanging or huge necklace.

Filled them up to the top.

After 2hours the slip was poured out of the Maori wall hanging.

The next day I was able to tip it out of the mold. It was firm enough to stand up.

I put it on a hard placemat and cleaned it up.

Then I carved it all over.

The next day the same thing.

I try to always change the way I carve these so each will be unique.

Poured out the slip after 2 hours and let it sit overnight with a baggie over it so it wouldn't dry out too much.

The first one didn't come out of the mold and tore to pieces. I fine tuned the mold where I thought it was catching the clay. Looking back at my photos I wish I had kept his head and made a necklace but he went into the garbage can. Oops!

The next day I did it all again and after it came out of the mold and I cut away the excess clay it was right on!

Empting out the slip from the number 1 crawl mug.

After the slip is poured out Dan flips the mold over and puts it on the 2 x 4's to let it finish draining and firming overnight.

One down many more to go. One mold, one mug a day. Cheers, Wendy