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Strawberry Season
Spring and summer are particularly exciting because most fruits are back in season. The fruits! As desserts! Or drinks! So fresh!
A 5-mug Fruit Series is coming soon. More info to come.
Appreciate the Process
My favorite of the bunch is most certainly the strawberry mug. That often also means it takes the longest. By my estimate, the below chart is a fairly accurate explanation of how long it took to make the strawberry mug, from start to finish (active handling only, not counting wait time between sessions). The other mugs, though not as complicated, likely took a similar amount of time, minus 1 hr or so.
| TASK | MINUTES |
| Throw Cylinder | 10 |
| Trim | 10 |
| Attach Handle + touchups | 10 |
| Sketch fruit design (pencil) | 5 |
| Carve fruit design | 60 |
| Carve an outline around the fruit design to prepare for fluted texture, carve fluted texture, touchups | 90 |
| Underglaze Painting (3 colors, 4 layers each) | 375 |
| Prep for glazing: latex resist on fruit design, wax bottom | 10 |
| White Glaze | 5 |
| Remove latex resist, touchups | 5 |
| Clear Glaze on fruit design (painted by hand) | 15 |
| Touchups before glaze kiln | 5 |
| Clean / sand bottoms after glazing (diamond pad) | 5 |
| Photography / Editing / Marketing for website listing | 25 |
| TOTAL TIME (minutes) TOTAL TIME (hours) | 375 minutes 6 hours 15 minutes |
That’s a LONG TIME to spend on one mug.
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