Good news, the mug looks cool.. bad news the bottom is absolutely horrible... good news, I managed to save it... bad news, plenty of blood... good news, the blue turned ugly mustard yellow pieces are blue again... bad news, I completely destroyed one of my dremel heads. Good news, no glaze got on my kiln shelves... bad news, I can't type for crap with these band aids on my fingers!
I ran a couple pieces in my kiln yesterday with one of my favorite glazes from the studio on some pieces that were in the to be tossed box. At the studio, if your pieces sit on the shelves for more than 3 months they become fair game for anyone who wants to take them. I found a couple, one of which belonged to a guy who used to come to the studio but who has since moved away. His name is Bob and he made the coolest sets of wheel-thrown mugs. I got one of the mugs and gave one to another girl to mess with. Granted I have no idea what kind of clay it was made of (which does matter) but I decided to see how one of my favorite glazes worked on this mug since the glaze was just re-mixed a couple days ago. Besides being a little thick I think the temp was just to much for it. I peeked in to see how it was doing early in the firing and it looked like old peeling paint. The glaze pooled at the bottom of the mug and adhered it very strongly to the pieces of unglazed plate that I had it sitting on to protect my kiln shelves.
After an hour of chipping the pieces & glaze off with a big hammer and very small flat-headed screwdriver I ground it down so I didn't gash my hand open any more than I already had. I managed to finish off one of my dremel bits pretty well too.
I'm sure my neighbors just love me for all the noise I was making but one of them started in with a leaf blower so that helped. I'm pretty used to being the weird neighbor anyways... LOL
This is what the Bobmug looks like after all that work, not bad if you don't look at the bottom of it. I stuck a bunch of felted adhesive pads to the bottom of it, it will do for something to take to work and use.
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