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 Sun, Feb 25, 2018 7:34 AM hang10tiki I have reached the max in mug size for the crawl. Then next one will have to start the way to downsizing. Poor Dan! zerostreet your page is the same as mine. We both love to share what we work on. Your deck of cards is beautiful. Hamo the funnel system is for really tiny molds that were made by Gecko. I try to always make this large reservoir on my large molds. Next years crawl mug will have to be smaller. Dan's at his lifting max with this one. ================================= Part Seven for the Sacramento Crawl mug for 2018. Opening the mold is tricky. I have to figure out the best order for removing the pieces because there are locks that hold them together. The first piece we removed was the bottom. This was easy to choose. The cast looks fine. The first mugs out will have plaster residue which will eventually go away. Next we lay the mold down on the three piece side and Dan lifted, straight off, the next large slab and exposed the front of the mug. No undercuts. I do see where there are clay lumps on the face I will have to clean off. This happens when there are air bubbles in the plaster. Now it's time to deal with the reservoir at the top. I use a sharp knife and cut it off. Later when plaster residue is no longer sticking I will save this clay for my Wish List projects. Next I just pulled the two side pieces away from the middle. Looks like the mold is a success. No undercuts. There are a couple of ways to remove the mug from this last piece. I forgot to take photos so I'll do that today. We cast a mug at 6 am each morning. Sometimes later. Then after a day working on the Wish List we open the mold and I clean the mug. If I keep going at one per day I will have all the mugs cast in around 85 days. This year I may have to make a few more. Cheers, Wendy

hang10tiki I have reached the max in mug size for the crawl. Then next one will have to start the way to downsizing. Poor Dan!

zerostreet your page is the same as mine. We both love to share what we work on. Your deck of cards is beautiful.

Hamo the funnel system is for really tiny molds that were made by Gecko. I try to always make this large reservoir on my large molds.
Next years crawl mug will have to be smaller. Dan's at his lifting max with this one.

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Part Seven for the Sacramento Crawl mug for 2018. Opening the mold is tricky. I have to figure out the best order for removing the pieces because there are locks that hold them together.

The first piece we removed was the bottom. This was easy to choose.

The cast looks fine. The first mugs out will have plaster residue which will eventually go away.

Next we lay the mold down on the three piece side and Dan lifted, straight off, the next large slab and exposed the front of the mug.

No undercuts. I do see where there are clay lumps on the face I will have to clean off. This happens when there are air bubbles in the plaster.

Now it's time to deal with the reservoir at the top.

I use a sharp knife and cut it off. Later when plaster residue is no longer sticking I will save this clay for my Wish List projects.

Next I just pulled the two side pieces away from the middle. Looks like the mold is a success. No undercuts. There are a couple of ways to remove the mug from this last piece. I forgot to take photos so I'll do that today.

We cast a mug at 6 am each morning. Sometimes later. Then after a day working on the Wish List we open the mold and I clean the mug. If I keep going at one per day I will have all the mugs cast in around 85 days. This year I may have to make a few more.

Cheers, Wendy

Post #784327 by danlovestikis on Sun, Feb 25, 2018 7:34 AM