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, Jul 14, 2019 6:47 PM hang10tiki your days on the islands are always so fun and beautiful. I think we'll go your post then mine then yours then mine. I hope you have lots of them to do. Thank you always for sharing them. ================================== These photos were taken from 5/20/19 to 5/22/19. After the kiln cooled It was time to open it and to remove the mugs. I could already see that the pingo glaze on the black rocks had dozens of glaze skips. So already I knew that I would be re-glazing and re-firing all of these mugs. But the big shock was to see that the Duncan CN glaze has many skips. We scrubbed the mugs in 40 degree water this past winter and maybe we didn't do a good enough job. All these problems can be fixed with more work. There wasn't a good solution because all the fronts of the mugs were all glazed and many of the rocks too. The next load was dry so into the kiln one layer at a time. Then I put Dan to work with the dremmel. Some brown glaze poured over the L on the front so I needed that removed. When the mugs come out of the kiln I scrubbed them again to remove the dust that caused the glazes to crawl. The next load out of the kiln had the exact same problems. More scrubbing in preparation for re-glazing. More mugs are waiting for the next steps. What a way to retire from the crawl mugs. Number 10 is a dozy! Wendy

hang10tiki your days on the islands are always so fun and beautiful. I think we'll go your post then mine then yours then mine. I hope you have lots of them to do. Thank you always for sharing them.

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These photos were taken from 5/20/19 to 5/22/19.

After the kiln cooled It was time to open it and to remove the mugs. I could already see that the pingo glaze on the black

rocks had dozens of glaze skips. So already I knew that I would be re-glazing and re-firing all of these mugs.

But the big shock was to see that the Duncan CN glaze has many skips. We scrubbed the mugs in 40 degree water this past winter and maybe we didn't do a good enough job. All these problems can be fixed with more work.