Post #784442 by danlovestikis on Tue, Feb 27, 2018 9:10 AM

PART NINE the making of the Sacramento Crawl mug for October 2018.

Once the mold is open and the mug is removed there is a lot of clean up and fine tuning to make the mug.

First I scrap off all of the mold lines.

There are always defects in a mold. The bumps of clay that result have to be removed. Also the lettering didn't come out as deep as I wanted.

Here is after the tiki is cleaned up and the lettering is recurved. I will do these steps on every mug.

I made a video that I can't post here but I put it on facebook. It shows how I used a meat tenderizer mallet to add more volcanic texture to the surface. I just pounded the heck out of the mug.

Now a far view shows the new surface.

Next I remove the excess clay from the top. This mug has to have a tall straw if you want to drink from it. Holds enough for 6 people!

I clean it up with water and make the peaks just right.

The dry ice/ rum sugar cube pockets were not cast I have to build them. There are two.

After I place some clay I use a round ball tool to start to form the pocket.

All done, now onto the second one.

Now I go to all the areas such as the peaks and pockets and add the volcanic texture.

One a day until I have around 85. Cheers, Wendy