Post #744767 by danlovestikis on Sat, Jun 13, 2015 8:51 AM

hang10tiki it's been up to 108 and then dropped to 66 now it's back up again. It's crazy weather. I just hope it doesn't ruin the crops that did get an allotment of water. Cherries burst with a little rain and it was heavy here.

I'm so happy with this mug. I still have to glaze all of them.

I'm glad you like the mug. I wish Disney had made them and we could all be hunting them down for our collections.

================================

Today is special IDOVooDoo, Lloyd AlohaHAHA and Vance and Jenae are coming over to retrieve their art. This will be a play day for us.

================================

Back to the Sacramento (Cap City) Crawl mug. These photos were taken from April 8th through May 1st. Making a run of mugs takes a long time. We have been making one mug per day. We cast in the afternoon and the next morning it comes out of the mold and I spend two hours cleaning and craving it into the best mug I can make.

Now many have dried. Again I take each one and sand it and fine tune the carving.

Dan has air compressed off the dust and we've loaded the bottom and then

a top shelf with mugs and even the bottom of my space ship fit.

We started this project in January so that we could cast one mug per day. This many didn't fit into the kiln!

The load is done and ready to come out of the kiln.

The pouring of mugs is ongoing and here the mold is drying with a fan on it. That fan has run for 4 months without dying.

In the house the washed mugs continue to add up.

We have now cast 70 mugs. I'm still deciding if I will make this a run of 80, 90 or 100 and then break the mold.

But for now I've told Dan we can stop pouring at 70 and he's so happy!

Really happy!!!

This many of the 70 still need to be sanded and fine tuned.

Dan's happiness is short lived. I put him to work sanding the tops and bottoms of all these mugs.

I keep checking on him and every time something looks different. Check one.

Check two.

Check three.

Check four.

Check five.

Check six.

Check seven.

Check Eight.

Check nine. Now I've got it. Each time I check his beard has grown longer. He's been at this sanding for days!

Now they are waiting for me!

First I fine tune the carving one last time.

We always wear the masks. You just can't see all the dust, asthma is a killer and this dust is a precursor.

Then I carefully sand each mug.

Another load into the kiln.

The fired top load and

the fired bottom load.

Another month gone and lots of work left to do.

Cheers, Wendy