Post #782747 by MadDogMike on Fri, Dec 29, 2017 7:24 PM

Snake Hut is DONE!!!! TU and I started talking about this in July, good thing he wasn't in a hurry :lol:

My Krakatoa mug concept is a bit more problematic. Since the glass serves as the support, I was able to roll the clay much thinner that I normally would for a mug. This made the mug less "clunky" - success! I also made some fired clay stamps to impress KRAKATOA into the mug and I like the way it worked out - another success! The techical difficulty comes in perfectly accounting for the clay shrinkage. I made this design in two pieces to glue to the glass tumbler and calculated for a 5% shrinkage but it still didn't fit all that great. You can see some gaps between the ceramic and the glass. I thought this design might be something that I could make and sell for a reasonable price but it still needs some perfecting.

Wendy there is another advantage to a small kiln, I was able to fire 3 times in a 2 day period :D