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swizzle....mugs and stuff. Lance Corporal Stoney has been glazed. |
LoriLovesTiki
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Joined: Jul 03, 2011
Posts: 510
From: NJ
|  Posted: 2013-04-27 5:46 pm Permalink
Swizzle,
I LOVE the bowl! Great job. And the Bob o Nuts are adorable. I don't know what the conversion is from AUD to USD. I'll have to Google that. I really would like a personalized one! Can you PM me a price quote? (I live in NJ, zip code 08831 if that matters.)
Maybe this will be my birthday present to myself this year! Last year it was a mug from Wendy!
Thanks!
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danlovestikis
Grand Member (8 years) 
Joined: Jun 17, 2002
Posts: 3666 | Posted: 2013-04-27 7:37 pm Permalink
That's a pretty blue. Good job on the bowl. Wendy
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GROG
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Joined: Jun 21, 2006
Posts: 6267
From: Tujunga
| Posted: 2013-04-27 8:21 pm Permalink
Go Swizzers, go!
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tigertail777
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Joined: Nov 25, 2004
Posts: 524
From: Oregon
| Posted: 2013-04-27 10:46 pm Permalink
Wow that bowl SINGS baby! I also really like your "Pele coated kitty" (the one that looks like it was caught in a lava flow). 
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Hale Tiki
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Joined: Oct 19, 2004
Posts: 1608
From: Pittsburgh
| Posted: 2013-04-30 06:59 am Permalink
I know I said it over on Instagram, but that tiki that came from the soap mold actually looks legitimate when in ceramic and glazed. It's a little modern, but it looks better than I've ever seen in that bowl!
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swizzle
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Joined: Jun 03, 2007
Posts: 649
From: Melbourne,Australia
| Posted: 2013-05-07 05:33 am Permalink
Thanks Lori.
Thanks Wendy. It is a beautiful blue but it seems to have come out slightly different to when i used it last. I think it's because the base clay it was applied to is grey not white.
Swizz is going GROG. 
Thanks tigertail777. SINGS is a good way to describe it. The colour combination works really well together i think. And i like the kitty too.
Cheers Hale Tiki. Although you say it looks a little modern it appears the design might have come from the 60's by a company called NAPCO.
Just a quick update. I had a handful of new glazes arrive so i did a few tests with them on my usual 'SWIZ' and 'Careless Navigator' logos.
 
I'm just posting this picture of the cat to show the difference in the glaze when it comes to shape of the piece. You can see that a lot of the black spots ran and left lines on the cat whereas on the both my logo and the CN one they stayed as spots as both those pieces were laying flat in the kiln when they were fired.
And i also glazed and fired another bowl. This was my original idea when i first made the mold, to join two of them together back to back and make a cavity in the top of the head for some overproof rum which you could light. After i pulled the first tiki from the mold it looked like the base with two joined together would be too large to fit inside the bowl but i gave it a go anyway and this is the result. It actually fits fine bit takes up a lot of room so you end up with a bowl that would only really hold one drink. I've thought about maybe carving away a couple of rocks so that the liquid can get inside the tiki and therefore hold more liquid/booze.
The rocks came out a lot darker than i was hoping. I had a little black glaze left in the jar and added some white to it but didn't do a test sample so it is nowhere near as light as i would have liked it. I also did as i mentioned in my previous post where i glazed the pieces seperately and let them fuse together. It worked fine.
(I usually take my pics outside but it was a miserable day here today so i had to take them under lights inside.)
 
 
Until the next time.
Cheers
swizzle
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MadDogMike
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Joined: Mar 30, 2008
Posts: 6492
From: The Anvil of the Sun
| Posted: 2013-05-07 06:00 am Permalink
Cool stuff Swizz! The streaks on the cat are cool, add a little more interest than just spot would. Like the double faced Tiki too. That glaze fusing technique work well don't it?
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Hale Tiki
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Joined: Oct 19, 2004
Posts: 1608
From: Pittsburgh
| Posted: 2013-05-07 06:49 am Permalink
The more I see the bob-o-nut mugs, the more I want one! Gah!
And thanks for the info, I just looked it up and found this thread:
http://www.tikiroom.com/tikicentral/bb/viewtopic.php?topic=22393&forum=5%20?iframe=true&start=0
And sure enough, those soap molds look to be exact copies of the Napco stuff! Maybe I might just have to break mine out again...
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hiltiki
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Joined: Jun 10, 2004
Posts: 2792
From: Reseda, calif.
| Posted: 2013-05-07 07:08 am Permalink
Nice new glaze, love your work, very clean and very nicely executed.
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danlovestikis
Grand Member (8 years)
Joined: Jun 17, 2002
Posts: 3666 | Posted: 2013-05-16 09:16 am Permalink
How did I miss these? You're doing a really great job. It's fun seeing a tiki cat too. Cool cat like you! Wendy
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