The Grog blog

Very Cute, your dad.

In 2010 GROG and KIRBY join up and make the first original Tonga Hut Mug.

Now, 14 years later GROG and Kirby join forces yet again to make another mug for the Tonga Hut. We just finished the master mold and it drying before we make the production molds from it. (Not the same mug as before. A brand new Kirby original design/sculpt! )Stay tuned!

I started doing ceramics in 2010. It's really hard to stop. I'm looking forward to seeing what you have made.

Me too!

KIRBY cleaning up the first Artist Proof out of the first production mold.

And one of the bowls GROG has completed lately. The "Lava Bowl". Lava spills out of the top and runs down the supporting Moais and cools as it puddles at the bottom. Turned out nice, and looks even better in person.

GROG off to visit TN now, but back in ten days.

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Sweet.

That is a banger Mr Grog....it's a Hunka Hunka Burnin' Bowl...

KIRBY and GROG have production molds and have started pouring greenware for the mug we're doing for Tonga Hut. Planning on an edition of 125. Kirby designed and sculpted. We've got about 45 poured so far. Cute Kirby-style Moai on a surfboard riding a wave.

We've got a second mug we're going to get started on for Tiki Tom's Tiki Bar. Will be designed and sculpted by GROG.

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Kirby did a bunch of carpentry the last couple of days to build a work area in GROG'garage so we have a good workspace to get batches of mugs completed. GROG helped.

The work area we built and put to use. It's not quite finished, but we had a day without pouring any mugs because we were building. Trying to build and keep mug production going at the same time. Kirby is always in a rush and GROG always trying to slow him down so we can be more organized, cleaner, and get things done right. GROG the Felix Unger and Kirby is the Oscar Madison of this odd couple, for sure. But Kirby the driving force.

The newly built workspace.

Kirby using the workspace.

A small army of mugs underway. A little less than 60 so far. We put 2 more production molds into the rotation today, and with the two that are drying, we should be pouring slip into 10 molds soon.

[ Edited by GROG on 2024-07-04 17:15:31 ]