Post #8465 by luau63 on Tue, Sep 17, 2002 6:12 AM

i inquired at a couple of local places here. the initial cost would be at least a few hundred dollars. the prototype or original must be sculpted, finely detailed and then preserved. 'greenware' is very fragile. they can only fit so many mugs in the kiln at a time. there is a success rate of about 60%; a lot of things can go wrong. you can't use red paint [or you must be very careful in your choice of red] because the red of the past was poisonous. i'm still considering it.