{"id":1971,"date":"2013-08-31T00:35:49","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T00:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/?p=1971"},"modified":"2013-08-31T00:35:49","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T00:35:49","slug":"lion-pressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/lion-pressed\/","title":{"rendered":"Lion pressed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The kiln reached final temperature just 11 minutes sooner than I estimated, I&#8217;ll open it up in the morning and see what I have.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, after finishing another plaster piece mold of a design I used to cast about 30 years ago, I pressed clay into it now and we&#8217;ll see how it turns out.<br \/>\nIt took 10-1\/2# of clay, the wall thickness of the clay is about 5\/8&#8243;, and it is 10&#8243; high, 4-1\/4&#8243; wide:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1265pressed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1265pressed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"547\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1973\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now about 3 hours later I was able to remove the lion, here he is shown next to one of the cut down wall plaque versions:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1265pressed1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1265pressed1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"407\" height=\"419\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1975\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The five pieces in the kiln all turned out just fine with the new schedule, the cherub was the problem before.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cherub295-fired-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cherub295-fired-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"539\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1979\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The still moist pressed lion block, I&#8217;ll need to clean him up a little and make another one today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/lion1265pressed-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/lion1265pressed-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"664\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1978\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The kiln reached final temperature just 11 minutes sooner than I estimated, I&#8217;ll open it up in the morning and see what I have. Meanwhile, after finishing another plaster piece mold of a design I used to cast about 30 years ago, I pressed clay into it now and we&#8217;ll see how it turns out. It took 10-1\/2# of clay, the wall thickness of the clay is about 5\/8&#8243;, and it is 10&#8243; high, 4-1\/4&#8243; wide: Now about 3 hours later I was able to remove the lion, here he is shown next to one of the cut down wall plaque versions: The five pieces in the kiln all turned out just fine with the new schedule, the cherub was the problem before. The still moist pressed lion block, I&#8217;ll need to clean him up a little and make another one today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sculptures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}