Post #777038 by danlovestikis on Sun, Jun 18, 2017 4:08 PM

hang10tiki men like purple and I like men. It was a good fit for this manly mug.

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Now that all the crawl mugs are boxed and ready for the event it is time for me to concentrate on glazing the Wish List.
I have four black velvet paintings to do. Each is similar to the one I did for the Tiki Oasis art show last summer. So I had to make a mug to go with each one. Since things can go bad I made 7 just in case.

I started with all the mugs in the kitchen.

I glazed all of the bottoms.

Then I filled a squeeze bottle with a Duncan CN glaze that doesn't move during firing.

All done. Nope see the next photo. Horrors.

Sometimes glaze spoils just like milk and has to be thrown out. The black glaze for the interior of these mugs did not stick even though I always spray water inside the mug first to start "capillary" action.

There is nothing that can save this so I have to remove this glaze.

I scrapped it all off the best I could and used a wet sponge on a stick to wipe these out.

Then I got a new jar of glaze and

finished the insides.

Now it was time to wash off any excess glaze from when I used the squeeze bottle.

Then I did 3 layers of glaze around the bottom rim.

Now I was ready to use grey glaze on all of them.

One by one I did the tiki in 2 layers and the outside of the mug with one. My hope is that the black will show through.

This is what it looked like when one had dried.

I decided to glaze some really big items since they fill up the kiln fast and I wanted to fire these mugs.

Ready to unload.

All 7 in the kiln.

This guy wanted to pose alone.

I will know if they are done after inspection has been completed. They look good on the outside.

Time for TV, Wendy