Post #776668 by danlovestikis on Mon, Jun 5, 2017 7:36 AM

hang10tiki thank you, I hope it will fire and glaze well. If so then I'll be using this style more often.

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Well you have seen all the Wish List #7 projects sculpted and the black velvet stretched. There has been so much more work going on than I have been able to show that now it is time to just share some backstage photos. While I bring my thread up to date I have started glazing. I'm not going to run out of photos to post.

Wish List #7 began in June 2016 when I began pouring all the pieces that I could use to make each project. I filled the garage and house with them. It really helped to speed things up.

This is what the garage work table looked like in October 2016 as I just made a few extra pieces not on the list.

The Sacramento Crawl mug for 2017 is based on this restaurant which was suggested by Psycho Tiki D. It worked out well because this year the mug is also being made in a small number for lunarvideogames home bar in San Diego called Tiki the Hut.

With one mold I could pour and clean one mug per day.

It's been fun watching the numbers grow.

Hoping that there would be a few wishes for Frankoma bowls I made and stored the little tikis in Tupperware.

The dining room table has both greenware pieces drying and pieces ready to be used stored in plastic bags.

One day we forgot we had poured a crawl mug and didn't notice until the next day. It was 2 inches thick in muck.

The outside of the mug looked fine so I turned it on it's side and

from the bottom I dug out all the muck.

This will not be a mug I will turn it into a lamp.

I added sticky clay as glue and

pressed down clay on the top. I trimmed it and detailed it and added a hole to the top.

Then I added a hole to the back.

I have sanded a whole kiln load and I am loading the kiln as tightly as I can.

It is OK to stack green ware for firing. Nothing will stick.

Dan is blowing off the sanding dust. A kiln lasts longer if you keep the dust out and off of the wires.

We wear our face masks to save our lungs.

I loaded it completely full.

Every single day we pour more pieces and a crawl mug.

Now the nook is filling up.

Whenever I have a batch dry I sand them and Dan blows off the dust. Now the kiln room is filling up with projects to fire.

The kiln is opened and the pieces are now ready to be washed. It is freezing outside so

they were carried inside where I will wash them in a big pot in the sink. I have to catch the dust so that I don't clog the drain.

A crawl mug ready to clean and other pieces waiting for their day. This photo was taken on Dec. 4th 2016.

Day by day the projects progressed and I wasn't even going to start until January 2017. It felt so good to have this huge early start.

Thank you for the visit. Wendy