{"id":2849,"date":"2017-05-27T03:15:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T03:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/?p=2849"},"modified":"2017-05-27T03:15:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T03:15:03","slug":"first-hand-pressed-22-d-out-of-the-mold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/first-hand-pressed-22-d-out-of-the-mold\/","title":{"rendered":"First hand-pressed 22-D out of the mold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first pressed clay is now out of the mold and she came out with a very minimal amount of surface defects that have to be fixed by hand. In the 1890s when these pieces were made the workers pounded the clay in using a small sand bag to ram the clay into the details and eliminate the little &#8220;creases&#8221; that I seem to get between pieces of clay laid in and pressed next to each other. Might help too if the clay was a little more moist and softer but I hesitate to add water since more water causes more shrinkage. To get a batch custom mixed to add a little more water I&#8217;d have to buy I believe a full ton and there&#8217;s an extra charge too.<br \/>\nReally want to see this in the red clay but I don&#8217;t have enough to do it and only had 50# of this white clay left.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/first-hand-pressed-22-d-out-of-the-mold\/22-d-pressed-back\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2850\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2850\" src=\"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/22-d-pressed-back.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"470\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/first-hand-pressed-22-d-out-of-the-mold\/22-d-pressed-front\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2851\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2851\" src=\"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/22-d-pressed-front.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"663\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And now 3 days later she is firmed up but not dry, so she can sit like this for about 2-3 weeks to dry before firing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/first-hand-pressed-22-d-out-of-the-mold\/22ddrying\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2898\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2898\" src=\"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/22ddrying.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"814\" height=\"546\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first pressed clay is now out of the mold and she came out with a very minimal amount of surface defects that have to be fixed by hand. In the 1890s when these pieces were made the workers pounded the clay in using a small sand bag to ram the clay into the details and eliminate the little &#8220;creases&#8221; that I seem to get between pieces of clay laid in and pressed next to each other. Might help too if the clay was a little more moist and softer but I hesitate to add water since more water causes more shrinkage. To get a batch custom mixed to add a little more water I&#8217;d have to buy I believe a full ton and there&#8217;s an extra charge too. Really want to see this in the red clay but I don&#8217;t have enough to do it and only had 50# of this white clay left. And now 3 days later she is firmed up but not dry, so she can sit like this for about 2-3 weeks to dry before firing.<\/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-2849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sculptures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849","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=2849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}