Post #745471 by danlovestikis on Tue, Jun 23, 2015 9:02 PM

Biotron2000 your words just make me blush.

hang10tiki you were too hot for words while in Palm Springs.

Tyber Tiki you really had a terrific wish. I just love carving these. This one took three days for the body and about a days worth of work to make the lid just right. It's all worth it.

RVICTOR now I would like all of that on my tombstone! The Bali Hai I used is one from the Sacramento area and not the San Diego Bali Hai. Which one were you thinking of using?

lunavideogames you are too much. Thank you so much for the Goonies movie. We will watch it soon and have fun looking for the scenes that show the house and jail we viewed on our last trip. You are so nice.

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A few years back I sculpted some sea creatures etc. for Roge's chunk lamps. After he had molded them for resin I took them home and made one big mold so I could make necklaces. I've run out so it's time to make some more.

Pouring the mold.

Two hours later I poured out the excess slip and let it set over night upside down. The clay dried and came loose.

Here they are ready to be worked on.

Cut each one loose and then

used this tool to closely cut around each necklace.

All done.

Time to work on their bottoms. This made them lighter weight.

I also cleaned out un-needed clay using this tool.

My mess as I work.

For the first time I noticed that the clay I cut from the bottoms of the sea turtles looked like Hawaiian petroglyphs. So I kept them.

I just fine tuned each one as I did each step.

Now these will dry while I move on to the next type of necklace.

The swap mug and HUGE Maori need to be fired so I needed a few more pieces to make it worthwhile. These necklaces will do just that.

Cheers, Wendy

[ Edited by: danlovestikis 2015-06-25 09:59 ]