I’m a retired engineer (RADAR research) and I like it sit with a coffee, relax and enjoy a TikiTechnicalTuesday. An absolute delight. Thank you for all your hard work, your videos are an education.
I’m a resident physician and I watch either on my commute to work (I take the train), or if I can wait until I get home, on my couch! Watching these videos is very pleasant after a rough day at work.
Christmas Eve morning and having panettone and coffee with the wife. My mother had a ceramics studio back in the ‘60s and now I’ve gotten into ceramics now that I’m retired. Actually, ceramics and Tiki bars.
I watch on my phone at lunch breaks or when I get home on my big screen. I love tiki as it surrounded by so many talented artists. People who make cocktails, mugs, trinkets, books, and of course clothes. One of main reasons, I love watching this channel so much. You can tell you really love what you do.
"Where do you watch from?". I have a "work from home" day job. I share my lunch with you on Tiki Tuesdays. My backyard is next to a undeveloped green belt in the Pacific Northwest. I can always hear bird's chirping while I'm eating my lunch.
Hi from Vancouver, WA! I'm sitting in my studio watching your videos! I make porcelain dolls, so this was a really fun one to watch and I love your gadget for blowing air into the mold. I've only used a straw, for years, but I'm going to make myself one of those. Thank you! Keep up the fun content!
I am a retired Prison Officer I find this so relaxing and stress free, I am watching from the UK Lytham near Blackpool. I have only just started so my learning curve is long and slow, but your craft, explanation and demonstration have taken me to order materials to have a go. Thank you so much for the videos
I watch while snuggling on the couch with my husband after dinner. I am a novice slip caster, so really enjoy watching your videos. Have learned a lot! Thanks for sharing.
I did notice the missed cleaning part lol I usually watch a majority of TH-cam at work while I’m on my lunch hour - iPads are great 😊 love your episodes!
I usually watch in the evenings, on my phone, in my recliner. Thank you so much for showing your whole process in your videos. I've been doing 3D printing and laser engraving, and am an amateur mold maker (plastic replacement pinball parts). Just starting into ceramics and your videos have helped me understand how the mold techniques are different, and how I can improve.
I watch from home in the evenings or first thing in the morning if you have posted a video. These pendants are super cool! My favorite is the black or, is it? Oh, who am I kidding? I would need one of each to go with what I am going to wear! I love Tiki Technical Tuesdays! Thank you! Lisa
Awesome as always, thank you for sharing your journey and your learning with us. I like to watch from my couch with my wife who is also a ceramic artist.
I bought some of the black porcelain slip after seeing it in one of your mug videos and it’s incredible! So I went back and bought blue, red and light blue…all really amazing clays!
Now you're just spoiling us with all this excellent content! The pendants look great. I especially love the black ones. One question: if they were real adzes, which end/side would be the sharp part? Just trying to picture how it would be used IRL. Thanks again for another great video.
Great question! Here is an image of a slightly larger adze from Hawaii lashed to a handle. The bottom edge of the pendant would be the cutting edge of the adze images.app.goo.gl/nD721Rrc7fvdydaF8
@@vantikistudio Thanks so much! I was actually thinking it was the other way around so this really helped. I also just love the word adze because I am a huge crossword lover.
I am watching from Germany from my Office, i will start cast my own created 3D Models (zbrush) i print them with a resin printer and make molds of them, your videos help me a lot, thx for that cheers from Germany
If you leave a straw in the pour hole, while the walls are forming, it prevents blockage….you could probably make a jig to hold it in place. I never had a straw with a hose on it…just the tiny straw, and vaguely remember getting spattered with slip, while extracting the liquid!
Where do I watch Tiki Technical Tuesday from? I'm usually in my bed room, sitting at my desk learning about ceramics and thinking about tiki mugs I want to make in the future.
I stumbled upon your channel when my interest was piqued watching another video about slipcasting. Being completely devoid of any ceramics knowledge I've found your Tiki Technical Tuesday videos super helpful to understand the process! I'm a professional sitter (software engineer) so I've found your videos great for just watching and unwinding while learning a thing or two. p.s. I just noticed the ampersand on your apron looks suspiciously familiar.
It is always a treat to watch a new episode of TTT! And, I do watch it on my phone unless I am working on my desktop PC. I'm wondering what the new mold soap offers beyond the old standard murphy's oil soap? I thought most mold soaps were just variations on murphy's oil soap (or thinned down versions of it). I do use Smooth-On mold release just for my resin print surface (not on plaster) and that works very well for me.
The new mold soap is FANTASTIC. It was suggested to me by @recollectiontoys on instagram - he said it is “fail safe” and I have to agree. I’d still get occasional loving keys or sticky bits on my molds - but the new stuff works wonders. The only downside is it’s very penetrating and tenacious, so it’s really hard to clean off the plaster. I don’t mind this, as I never cast out of my master plaster mold. instagram.com/recollectiontoys?igsh=MTQxdWoyNTVjZzduMQ==
thanks so much for doing a small casting...i make miniatures(1:12), and gonna start to make molds for a few thinks i dont like throwing on the wheel time after time...this helpt me a lot...i watch your video's on my pc on my diningtable
You wouldn't think 12% would look so drastic. Also, Watership Down always has me bawling! Do you avoid certain sections? Watching while I work on my 3D work.
I keep meaning to check the dimensions and calculate if it is indeed only 12% - it looks so crazy when I open the kiln! I am guaranteed to tear up many times while listening to the adventures of Hazel-rah and Fiver, and I am always a mess in that last chapter 🥹😭🐇
Again, thank you for the video, real youtube gold. My mind read "pendants" before "slipcasting" and I was wondering if you were going to do some sort of press mold. I'd be super interested to know if you have ever done this type of mold. My first (and only) slipcasting experience was making ramen spoons. I had a goal of making the perfect ramen spoon (for me) size and shape (I'm somewhat picky!) and made a mold from a spoon I loved but modified to account for shrinkage. I made my own slip (mainly to save money and because I wanted to try) with a healthy dose of Darvan 7 (which is magical stuff!). I wanted the spoons to be as near solid as possible as I hated to think about somebody using a spoon and biting through a super thing spoon and ending up with a mouth full of glass :/. Anyway I knew physics wouldn't allow me to have NO void but I was hoping if I kept the mold topped up I'd do OK. In the end the small spaces in the mold (just the shape of the spoon!) meant I ended up with (relatively) huge voids in the spoon bowl, so I ended up having to hand fill / score / slip / reshape each spoon bowl by hand. They came out pretty well and relatively solid but what a pain! I guess the point is, I'd be curious if you've ever made any totally solid shapes with molds, something like a press mold? How would you make a spoon, or other smaller / thin shape where you don't want a huge void? Thanks again, as always!
Great question! I have indeed made solid pendants with a press mold. Years back I did a lot of hand pressed tiles, and built a tile press for the studio. I used this press to make a series of small pendants. It worked well, but this was before I had ever used porcelain.
G'day Van (from Australia) on my home PC, in a spare room converted to makeshift office...with a coffee. Great work. Question, will you be making a video on slip casting those Zombie jugs you made a while back? Great work and thanks for sharing.
G’day! It is so wild to have folks watching from all over the globe. We have a handful of zombies left in the edition, but are taking a break from them to recover (they are a challenge!) - Perhaps I should document the final bit of the Zombie run.
Usually watch TTT on tv. Love fart sounds also. Do you reuse your porcelain that you remove from the well? Thank you again for another great and informative video.
I drain the molds back into the porcelain jug, so that gets re-used. The little bits I pry out of the well don’t get re-used. I suppose I could, but the time it would take to get them back to balanced slip isn’t worth it for me (time is my most precious material in the studio)
Love the black porcelain. Have you ever come across a good deep flat black glaze? I am making hundreds of casting of a mug and want some gloss white and some flat black. I want to do them all on my slip casting table so would rather use a glaze instead of two slips. But the black slip really looks amazing. Have been wanting to use it on a different (smaller) project since your last video with it. Oh and usually just watch wherever I happen to be! (Home, studio, parked car). Watched this just before going into work.
Full disclosure, I rewatched parts at my desk to see better detail. I noticed the little “tongue” looks different on the original monster clay sculpture vs the cast. It looks like a slight under cut in the original, but not sure how it is still there after you already made the plaster molds?
Good eye! The original sculpture was slightly damaged when I pulled it out of the mold - that’s why it looks different when placed next to the final castings.
It’s a great tool! It’s a seed from a blue marble tree - if you google there are some folks who sell them online. I picked up mine at the base of a blue marble tree in Kaneohe on the island of Oahu.
I can’t find any business called The Blue Marble to pick up the little textured marble. If you get a chance, can you post a link? I really like that texture! Oh, and I’m watching from Northern California. Thank you, sir!
It’s not a business but an actual tree. The tool I’m using is a seed from the tree’s fruit which look like bright blue marbles on the tree. Here’s a link for more info: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaeocarpus_angustifolius
Thank you so much for taking the time to write and explain this to me! I enjoy your unique videos and have learned so much from them. ❤ Reading about the Blue Marble tree is fascinating. Thank you!
I noticed the clay model (in the comparison shot at the end) has a notch in the tongue but the casting don't. Was it lost in the casting/shrinking process or did you remove while cleaning up the castings?
Good eye! The master model got a bit roughed up when I pried it out of the plaster mold. I heat the plaster mold prior to opening to soften the monster clay to make opening easier, but that means the sculpture usually takes some damage.
If i made a 1 part mold for a plate or simple mug..would the mold still only last for about 80 casts like you mentioned in one of your videos? or is that only for molds that have details on them?
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I’m a retired engineer (RADAR research) and I like it sit with a coffee, relax and enjoy a TikiTechnicalTuesday. An absolute delight. Thank you for all your hard work, your videos are an education.
Thank YOU so much for watching!
I’m a resident physician and I watch either on my commute to work (I take the train), or if I can wait until I get home, on my couch! Watching these videos is very pleasant after a rough day at work.
It makes me so happy that these videos help you unwind - thanks for watching!
I’m watching in my studio
Christmas Eve morning and having panettone and coffee with the wife. My mother had a ceramics studio back in the ‘60s and now I’ve gotten into ceramics now that I’m retired. Actually, ceramics and Tiki bars.
I watch on my phone at lunch breaks or when I get home on my big screen. I love tiki as it surrounded by so many talented artists. People who make cocktails, mugs, trinkets, books, and of course clothes. One of main reasons, I love watching this channel so much. You can tell you really love what you do.
Thank you for watching! I also love how many different types of craft and creation converge in the tiki / Poly-Pop world!
"Where do you watch from?". I have a "work from home" day job. I share my lunch with you on Tiki Tuesdays. My backyard is next to a undeveloped green belt in the Pacific Northwest. I can always hear bird's chirping while I'm eating my lunch.
Sounds like a perfect viewing spot!
Watching a master craftsman at work is enthralling and a privilege. Thank you for sharing your skills and experience so generously.
Thank you! And thank you for watching!
Hi from Vancouver, WA! I'm sitting in my studio watching your videos! I make porcelain dolls, so this was a really fun one to watch and I love your gadget for blowing air into the mold. I've only used a straw, for years, but I'm going to make myself one of those. Thank you! Keep up the fun content!
Thank YOU so much for watching!
I am a retired Prison Officer I find this so relaxing and stress free, I am watching from the UK Lytham near Blackpool. I have only just started so my learning curve is long and slow, but your craft, explanation and demonstration have taken me to order materials to have a go. Thank you so much for the videos
That is awesome! Enjoy your ceramic journey, I never thought I’d be doing this for a living when I started learning 25 (!) years ago
The process of blowing out porcelain slip was... Intimate
😂 - on the first week of casting I’d end up with slip all over me
I watch while snuggling on the couch with my husband after dinner. I am a novice slip caster, so really enjoy watching your videos. Have learned a lot! Thanks for sharing.
So glad the videos have helped you! Thank you for watching!
I did notice the missed cleaning part lol I usually watch a majority of TH-cam at work while I’m on my lunch hour - iPads are great 😊 love your episodes!
Well spotted! Thank you for watching!
I watch your videos at home in my spare time, and sometimes on my lunch breaks at work and, when I was commuting, on the train too. I love your videos
Thank you! Happy to help pass commute time!
I usually watch in the evenings, on my phone, in my recliner. Thank you so much for showing your whole process in your videos. I've been doing 3D printing and laser engraving, and am an amateur mold maker (plastic replacement pinball parts). Just starting into ceramics and your videos have helped me understand how the mold techniques are different, and how I can improve.
Thank you! Someday I hope to get into 3D printing 🤞
I watch from my living room in France. I have the space now to build a studio but other things must happen first in this old farm
Best channel ever! Thankyou!
Thank YOU for watching!
I’m so glad you didn’t edit out the sound. 😂
😂 the 8 year old in me giggles every time
My Tuesdays have gotten better as of late.
I’ve definitely been on a run! It’s gonna slow down a bit with Tiki Oasis coming up
I watch from home in the evenings or first thing in the morning if you have posted a video.
These pendants are super cool! My favorite is the black or, is it? Oh, who am I kidding? I would need one of each to go with what I am going to wear!
I love Tiki Technical Tuesdays!
Thank you!
Lisa
Thank you so much! I also can’t decide which color of porcelain I prefer 😄
Awesome as always, thank you for sharing your journey and your learning with us. I like to watch from my couch with my wife who is also a ceramic artist.
Thank you!
I like to relaxe after work in my bed and enjoy the process. Thank you for sharing
Thank you so much for watching!
I bought some of the black porcelain slip after seeing it in one of your mug videos and it’s incredible! So I went back and bought blue, red and light blue…all really amazing clays!
Glad to hear it!! I’ve been doing some tests with their green and yellow slips as well - they do indeed look great!
@@vantikistudioohhhh, I haven’t seen the green and yellow! I’ll have to try it. Thank you! 😂
Cool video! I liked when you said "puka" Nice to hear you still use Hawaii slang words even though you no longer live here.
Mahalo! I’ve got a lifetime of words from my time on Oahu that will never leave us. Pau, puka, Mauka, makai, manini, etc are all used almost daily 😄
Awesome! I was born and raised on Maui and still live here.
What a superb tutor you are. Thank you!
Thank you!
I wait till I'm home to watch your videos on my laptop, that way there's no distractions and i can take it all in!
Love it! Thanks for sharing!
Now you're just spoiling us with all this excellent content! The pendants look great. I especially love the black ones. One question: if they were real adzes, which end/side would be the sharp part? Just trying to picture how it would be used IRL. Thanks again for another great video.
Great question! Here is an image of a slightly larger adze from Hawaii lashed to a handle. The bottom edge of the pendant would be the cutting edge of the adze
images.app.goo.gl/nD721Rrc7fvdydaF8
@@vantikistudio Thanks so much! I was actually thinking it was the other way around so this really helped. I also just love the word adze because I am a huge crossword lover.
I am watching from Germany from my Office, i will start cast my own created 3D Models (zbrush) i print them with a resin printer and make molds of them, your videos help me a lot, thx for that cheers from Germany
Someday I hope to learn zbrush!
I am commuting while watching today. Love these!
Happy to be your commute entertainment!
If you leave a straw in the pour hole, while the walls are forming, it prevents blockage….you could probably make a jig to hold it in place. I never had a straw with a hose on it…just the tiny straw, and vaguely remember getting spattered with slip, while extracting the liquid!
That’s brilliant!
Where do I watch Tiki Technical Tuesday from? I'm usually in my bed room, sitting at my desk learning about ceramics and thinking about tiki mugs I want to make in the future.
I stumbled upon your channel when my interest was piqued watching another video about slipcasting. Being completely devoid of any ceramics knowledge I've found your Tiki Technical Tuesday videos super helpful to understand the process! I'm a professional sitter (software engineer) so I've found your videos great for just watching and unwinding while learning a thing or two.
p.s. I just noticed the ampersand on your apron looks suspiciously familiar.
So glad you stumbled upon my videos! Always is nice to hear the TH-cam algorithm works when it comes to suggestions
It is always a treat to watch a new episode of TTT! And, I do watch it on my phone unless I am working on my desktop PC. I'm wondering what the new mold soap offers beyond the old standard murphy's oil soap? I thought most mold soaps were just variations on murphy's oil soap (or thinned down versions of it). I do use Smooth-On mold release just for my resin print surface (not on plaster) and that works very well for me.
The new mold soap is FANTASTIC. It was suggested to me by @recollectiontoys on instagram - he said it is “fail safe” and I have to agree. I’d still get occasional loving keys or sticky bits on my molds - but the new stuff works wonders. The only downside is it’s very penetrating and tenacious, so it’s really hard to clean off the plaster. I don’t mind this, as I never cast out of my master plaster mold.
instagram.com/recollectiontoys?igsh=MTQxdWoyNTVjZzduMQ==
thanks so much for doing a small casting...i make miniatures(1:12), and gonna start to make molds for a few thinks i dont like throwing on the wheel time after time...this helpt me a lot...i watch your video's on my pc on my diningtable
Hope this helps with your small mold project!
Love these videos!
Thank you so much!
You wouldn't think 12% would look so drastic. Also, Watership Down always has me bawling! Do you avoid certain sections?
Watching while I work on my 3D work.
I keep meaning to check the dimensions and calculate if it is indeed only 12% - it looks so crazy when I open the kiln!
I am guaranteed to tear up many times while listening to the adventures of Hazel-rah and Fiver, and I am always a mess in that last chapter 🥹😭🐇
@@vantikistudio Whatever you do don't listen to Black Beauty and Watership Down in one go.
Thanks. Brilliant work ❤❤
Thank you!
I watch from my workshop
Perfect location!
Again, thank you for the video, real youtube gold.
My mind read "pendants" before "slipcasting" and I was wondering if you were going to do some sort of press mold. I'd be super interested to know if you have ever done this type of mold.
My first (and only) slipcasting experience was making ramen spoons. I had a goal of making the perfect ramen spoon (for me) size and shape (I'm somewhat picky!) and made a mold from a spoon I loved but modified to account for shrinkage. I made my own slip (mainly to save money and because I wanted to try) with a healthy dose of Darvan 7 (which is magical stuff!). I wanted the spoons to be as near solid as possible as I hated to think about somebody using a spoon and biting through a super thing spoon and ending up with a mouth full of glass :/. Anyway I knew physics wouldn't allow me to have NO void but I was hoping if I kept the mold topped up I'd do OK. In the end the small spaces in the mold (just the shape of the spoon!) meant I ended up with (relatively) huge voids in the spoon bowl, so I ended up having to hand fill / score / slip / reshape each spoon bowl by hand. They came out pretty well and relatively solid but what a pain!
I guess the point is, I'd be curious if you've ever made any totally solid shapes with molds, something like a press mold? How would you make a spoon, or other smaller / thin shape where you don't want a huge void?
Thanks again, as always!
Great question! I have indeed made solid pendants with a press mold. Years back I did a lot of hand pressed tiles, and built a tile press for the studio. I used this press to make a series of small pendants. It worked well, but this was before I had ever used porcelain.
Watching in my truck, in a shady spot in my pasture.
That sounds like heaven! Better than me responding to your comment from my spray booth in the middle of glazing giant crab claw mugs 😄
G'day Van (from Australia) on my home PC, in a spare room converted to makeshift office...with a coffee. Great work. Question, will you be making a video on slip casting those Zombie jugs you made a while back? Great work and thanks for sharing.
G’day! It is so wild to have folks watching from all over the globe. We have a handful of zombies left in the edition, but are taking a break from them to recover (they are a challenge!) - Perhaps I should document the final bit of the Zombie run.
Usually watch TTT on tv. Love fart sounds also.
Do you reuse your porcelain that you remove from the well? Thank you again for another great and informative video.
I drain the molds back into the porcelain jug, so that gets re-used. The little bits I pry out of the well don’t get re-used. I suppose I could, but the time it would take to get them back to balanced slip isn’t worth it for me (time is my most precious material in the studio)
@@vantikistudio I understand completely. I do the same and mine is just a hobby. But I hate throwing away clay.
Love the black porcelain. Have you ever come across a good deep flat black glaze?
I am making hundreds of casting of a mug and want some gloss white and some flat black. I want to do them all on my slip casting table so would rather use a glaze instead of two slips.
But the black slip really looks amazing. Have been wanting to use it on a different (smaller) project since your last video with it.
Oh and usually just watch wherever I happen to be! (Home, studio, parked car). Watched this just before going into work.
Full disclosure, I rewatched parts at my desk to see better detail.
I noticed the little “tongue” looks different on the original monster clay sculpture vs the cast. It looks like a slight under cut in the original, but not sure how it is still there after you already made the plaster molds?
I love Amaco Satin black and Mayco matte black (it is more of a satin finish) - both feel very nice.
Good eye! The original sculpture was slightly damaged when I pulled it out of the mold - that’s why it looks different when placed next to the final castings.
What is the blue marble tree seed used for? It looks so cool. 🤔
it is a fantastic tool! I roll it over the surface of the clay to impart a texture to the castings.
Where can I buy one of the texture marbles you use? Love the Chanel, have learned A LOT!!!
It’s a great tool! It’s a seed from a blue marble tree - if you google there are some folks who sell them online. I picked up mine at the base of a blue marble tree in Kaneohe on the island of Oahu.
Did you used to have a gallery space in Brownsville, Oregon?
Nope - never have had a gallery, and I’ve only visited Brownsville once (it was lovely!)
I can’t find any business called The Blue Marble to pick up the little textured marble. If you get a chance, can you post a link? I really like that texture! Oh, and I’m watching from Northern California. Thank you, sir!
It’s not a business but an actual tree. The tool I’m using is a seed from the tree’s fruit which look like bright blue marbles on the tree. Here’s a link for more info:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaeocarpus_angustifolius
Thank you so much for taking the time to write and explain this to me! I enjoy your unique videos and have learned so much from them. ❤ Reading about the Blue Marble tree is fascinating. Thank you!
I noticed the clay model (in the comparison shot at the end) has a notch in the tongue but the casting don't. Was it lost in the casting/shrinking process or did you remove while cleaning up the castings?
Good eye! The master model got a bit roughed up when I pried it out of the plaster mold. I heat the plaster mold prior to opening to soften the monster clay to make opening easier, but that means the sculpture usually takes some damage.
Hi! Do you make molds for people or is there anyone you know in Orlando area who does? Thanks.
I'm afraid we only make molds four our own projects. I don't know of any Orlando moldmakers - sorry!
If i made a 1 part mold for a plate or simple mug..would the mold still only last for about 80 casts like you mentioned in one of your videos? or is that only for molds that have details on them?
It really depends on the level of detail and the composition of the slip you are casting with. Some folks go way farther than I do with mold life
Im curious toeasure the master and the final and work out with the maths it it is 12%
I’m curious as well! I’ll have to get out the calipers and get some precise measurements to compare
How much for one
They are $100 each - available here:
vantiki.com/products/pendant-tiki-kon-2023-bone-white-with-eyes
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I like to watch you work through your window with some binoculars. YT when that's not possible 🤷🏻♂️
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