Post #784933 by danlovestikis on Mon, Mar 12, 2018 8:51 AM

hang10tiki I will have to see if I can find a sweet Mickey smile because these photos of Dan are scary!

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Progress Report on the Sacramento Crawl mug and Wish List #8.

Last year I did all the sculpting, then all the firing, then all the glazing and then all the shipping. It meant I worked for a year before anyone got their art. This time I am going in waves. I do a lot then go through all the steps to finish and ship then I start again. I'm on wave number two right now. Soon I will begin to glaze.

For California it's cold so I put a heater on full behind me and I wore a jacket, gloves and protective gear.

I have a lot to sand. Dan is outside taking each piece to blow off the dust as I work, then he puts them in the kiln. Glazing these goblets is scary because they take so long to make and they are fragile until fired.

The bottom level filled and then the top level is

filled. This took a lot of hours of coordinated work. I decided to sand the rest of the dry pieces for the next firing because rain is on the way and that shuts us down.

I lost concentration and pulled this bowl to me without thinking and I broke off the side I was pulling. Such a huge bummer!

MadDogMike showed me this product years ago and it's a staple on my shelf. I've learned not to hurry it. I "glued the two pieces together and let it sit for 24 hours to completely dry.

I used this melon scoop to "sand" the pieces. It was just the right shape.

The repair clay takes up space so when the piece was put in place it didn't fit perfectly. That's OK. I let it sit for 24 hours to dry.

Time to sand and carve to fine tune the bowl. I put on my protective gear.

The inside and top edge needed to be sanded.

I use the mesh type of sandpaper and I removed a lot of clay until it was smooth.

The outside looked the worst. I sanded it way down until it looked right.

Then I carved the rough surface so that it matched the bowl again.

Now I flipped the bowl over and did the same, sanding and

carving. It's now ready to fire. Hopefully this worked and the bowl has been saved. The best part is that this is a bowl that I made without selling it to anyone. So if it fails no one but me is disappointed.

I had four Sacramento Crawl mugs waiting to be cleaned and since they were on the kitchen counter I decided to "spook" Dan when he came downstairs for dinner.

Cheers, Wendy