Post #786564 by danlovestikis on Sat, May 5, 2018 8:45 AM

littlegiles thank you. I'm making six or more of these. Wishers have been changing their requests to these so I'll be making a couple more. I'm trying to make each one different. I hope they are still liked with the changes.

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Wish List #8 the next O2 out Diver's Helmet. These take a week to make so these are all catch up photos.

Each time I post I will show less of the steps but here we go again!

After I clean up the mold lines I press in the bowl then add a slab

of clay so that the pressed in area is not too thin.

You can see how it looks on the inside in this photo.

This time I added the rim clay around the hole before placing the skull.

I was able to judge the thickness with one hand on the inside and on the outside to add clay if it wasn't thick enough.

To keep the clay from slouching downward I put it on the rim to firm up for a day.

Now I moved on to doing the skull.

He is not done but needs to firm up.

Once firm I carved out the back side so it won't crack when fired.

I added the ports or whatever they are called.

A day later they are firm enough to carve.

The skull has been sticky glued into place. It is firm enough on the sides to hold so I was able to indent the bottom.

I added the detail needed to age it. Glaze will do that too.

I finished doing the carving on the teeth.

Two down more to go. Wendy