Post #776979 by danlovestikis on Thu, Jun 15, 2017 8:09 AM

Dan finished his assigned chore and left to play records.

I used up all this glaze for the insides of the mugs.

I scrapped out the glaze from each vase into a pitcher and saved it for the next day when this would begin again.

The next day.

Each time I take one out of the vase I clean up the top and if the glaze isn't thick enough I add some around the rim.

One by one the go on a tray until Dan can remove them from the kitchen.

A couple of days later they are dry and the weather is right for spraying. I need no more than a light breeze. Wind will carry too much glaze away from what I am spraying. I don't use the box when I have so many to do.

Mugs get carried all over the place during production. From when they are cast, cleaned, dried, sanded, bisque fired, glazed and fired again and touch ups as needed and fired another time. It's like lifting weights. So from the house they went outside and to the

kiln shed. Now I'm ready to glaze them all.

Most photos are of Dan so I thought I would show myself for a change.

The first time I used a spray gun everything I sprayed stuck to the turn table. I had to keep washing the turn table then I thought why not use the spikes.

I can spray all day long without the glaze building up to reach the mugs.

When I start I wonder if I can get them done, then one by one they are.

Each time I finish a tray of mugs Dan carries it to the shed or into the house.

I put tape between my eyebrows so that I don't frown all day long and make those lines. I iron them out with tape.

I pushed to get this first part done. They all must be sprayed again, I'll show that next time. Wendy