Tonga Hut BOWL-O-RAMA 2 Art Show & Parking Lot Sale Sunday, June 30! The Zip Guns! Tiki Bowls! Fun! - California Events

O OceaOtica Grand Member (1 year) Joined: Sep 29, 2003 Posts: 1064	O OceaOtica Posted posted on Thu, Jun 27, 2019 5:38 AM Wow looking like an amazing bowl lineup for the show!!! Congrats to all the artists! So here are the last stages of the bowl: the last days of bar top resin work ( there were at least 10 spaced out coats) were difficult in the high humidity and rain here in the south. I chased the last top surface coats for 4 hours straight late at night but alas fish eyeing with all my bag o tricks did not pan out as planned. In Japanese wabi sabi fashion I dusted an imperfection with 10 ct gold dust, the next coat I had smelted 8 and 10 ct gold which I embedded in subsequent coats. There is a spot that I sanded and left raw to mark the base. After the 72 hour cure time I used Bioshield bees wax polish and hand polished the surface. The coaster that goes under the bowl is cork and natural hemp rope with a lava bar top resin center, backed by a gold reflective foil; the coaster was then sealed and polished with the Bioshield. The simple design of the bowl was made with easy cleaning in mind. It’s is cone 5 ceramic, food safe lead free glazes. The outer portion holds 68 oz. For dry ice, safety observed using gloves to avoid dry ice burns and windows open for ventilation. To do the volcano 42 oz water max are poured into the center, and a piece, no larger than half a standard ice cube ( the piece pictured was the length of a cube but a slender sliver) is dropped in. Larger pieces can potentially damage the bowl ( I have ruined bowls in the past by using a lot of dry ice and the bowls froze and cracked on the spot). The bowl and base are en route to California as we speak; a challenge as my first trip to the post office I found out that the whole thing packaged together just exceeded their size limit; who knew they had a limit? So back and cutting and such to make a custom package for the base and a separate box for the bowl. This project has been in progress over the last couple months or so and has been a fun and rewarding experience. I hope you enjoy it at Bowl-O-Rama 2 on June 30th at the Tonga Hut North Hollywood! More details on the build can be seen in previous posts. A video can be seen on my Instagram (it wouldn’t load up here on TC)

Wow looking like an amazing bowl lineup for the show!!! Congrats to all the artists!
So here are the last stages of the bowl: the last days of bar top resin work ( there were at least 10 spaced out coats) were difficult in the high humidity and rain here in the south. I chased the last top surface coats for 4 hours straight late at night but alas fish eyeing with all my bag o tricks did not pan out as planned. In Japanese wabi sabi fashion I dusted an imperfection with 10 ct gold dust, the next coat I had smelted 8 and 10 ct gold which I embedded in subsequent coats. There is a spot that I sanded and left raw to mark the base. After the 72 hour cure time I used Bioshield bees wax polish and hand polished the surface.
The coaster that goes under the bowl is cork and natural hemp rope with a lava bar top resin center, backed by a gold reflective foil; the coaster was then sealed and polished with the Bioshield.
The simple design of the bowl was made with easy cleaning in mind. It’s is cone 5 ceramic, food safe lead free glazes. The outer portion holds 68 oz.
For dry ice, safety observed using gloves to avoid dry ice burns and windows open for ventilation. To do the volcano 42 oz water max are poured into the center, and a piece, no larger than half a standard ice cube ( the piece pictured was the length of a cube but a slender sliver) is dropped in. Larger pieces can potentially damage the bowl ( I have ruined bowls in the past by using a lot of dry ice and the bowls froze and cracked on the spot). The bowl and base are en route to California as we speak; a challenge as my first trip to the post office I found out that the whole thing packaged together just exceeded their size limit; who knew they had a limit? So back and cutting and such to make a custom package for the base and a separate box for the bowl.
This project has been in progress over the last couple months or so and has been a fun and rewarding experience. I hope you enjoy it at Bowl-O-Rama 2 on June 30th at the Tonga Hut North Hollywood!
More details on the build can be seen in previous posts. A video can be seen on my Instagram (it wouldn’t load up here on TC)

Post #795924 by OceaOtica on Thu, Jun 27, 2019 5:38 AM