Wendy Cevola - New colors of the Frank mug by Frankoma now available. - Other Crafts

D danlovestikis Grand Member (8 years) Joined: Jun 17, 2002 Posts: 9082	D danlovestikis Posted posted on Wed, Jul 12, 2017 6:51 PM hang10tiki I am so far behind with photos that many I show here are already at their new homes. Yours will be the same. But it's fine to post them when they arrive and then I still post the steps later on. HopeChest as I said to hang10tiki, he'll have his mug way before I post the in-progress photos and the same for you. Your mug is cooling in the kiln and by Saturday morning I will be able to remove it and to check it out. The letting on yours was a killer to do and my fingers are crossed it turns out. ============================= Wish List #7 continues with some of the HUGE Maori lamps. These are not wired so the buyer has a project to finish them off. Here they are: I do projects according on how much room is in the kiln and how tall the piece is. So in addition to the two wished for lamps I did one extra. Each lamp has a removable lid. This makes putting in all the lamp works easier. This wish is for Dr. Tiki Mojo aka Whylee Raven aka Dave and Eva. Then it was time to do the extra special lamp for Jeffery Bannow. His is one that I hand built and added on designs to the side and then carved them. He request the color of burgundy. I found a glaze called dark wine. . When all three were finished I put them outside to dry. If your glaze is on too thick and cracks it will separate making big glaze skips. So it's better to keep your glaze watered down and to do more layers. These had three each drying in between each layer. Once dry I could put the lids on to carry then into the kiln shed. But if I fired them this way they would be glued on permanently Now I have all the projects that needed touch ups as well as those newly glazed ready to load into the kiln. Loaded and ready to fire. But there's still more to load. When I went to put two more shelves into the kiln one was going to be too close to the thermal couple. So I took every thing out of the kiln and worked until I could to the second layer with the shelf further away. This group of photos end on 6/24/17. I have many more to post coming up soon, cheers, Wendy

hang10tiki I am so far behind with photos that many I show here are already at their new homes. Yours will be the same. But it's fine to post them when they arrive and then I still post the steps later on.

HopeChest as I said to hang10tiki, he'll have his mug way before I post the in-progress photos and the same for you. Your mug is cooling in the kiln and by Saturday morning I will be able to remove it and to check it out. The letting on yours was a killer to do and my fingers are crossed it turns out.

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Wish List #7 continues with some of the HUGE Maori lamps. These are not wired so the buyer has a project to finish them off.

Here they are:

I do projects according on how much room is in the kiln and how tall the piece is. So in addition to the two wished for lamps I did one extra.

Each lamp has a removable lid. This makes putting in all the lamp works easier.

This wish is for Dr. Tiki Mojo aka Whylee Raven aka Dave and Eva.

Then it was time to do the extra special lamp for Jeffery Bannow. His is one that I hand built and added on designs to the side and then carved them. He request the color of burgundy. I found a glaze called dark wine.

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When all three were finished I put them outside to dry. If your glaze is on too thick and cracks it will separate making big glaze skips. So it's better to keep your glaze watered down and to do more layers. These had three each drying in between each layer.

Once dry I could put the lids on to carry then into the kiln shed. But if I fired them this way they would be glued on permanently

Now I have all the projects that needed touch ups as well as those newly glazed ready to load into the kiln.

Loaded and

ready to fire. But there's still more to load.

When I went to put two more shelves into the kiln one was going to be too close to the thermal couple.

So I took every thing out of the kiln and worked until I could to the second layer with the shelf further away.

This group of photos end on 6/24/17. I have many more to post coming up soon, cheers, Wendy

Post #777766 by danlovestikis on Wed, Jul 12, 2017 6:51 PM