Mugs Round Two

I'm back again with three more...Two purple with voluptuous Mermaid Vixens and undersea themes, and one more with pretty cowgirls and rodeo cowboys. The glaze is a little thin in areas on the rodeo one so I will discount it. This is the trouble with pottery...a ton of work, you only really get one chance to fire them and it's so easy to have minor imperfections. 

Mug #1: Sexy Mermaids: Three different mermaids and elaborate octopus inside. $65 plus shipping:

 All three gone in a flash, thank you once again!

 

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Mug#2: Under Sea World: Mermaid, Octopus and vintage Diving Helmet, Mermaid inside a jar on the inside of the mug. $65 plus shipping:

 

Mug #3: Rodeo Theme, second with minor glaze blem: Pretty Cowgirls, bucking bronco and handsome cowboy inside. $55 plus shipping:

 

 

Three Mugs!

Hello my friends! 

It's a miserably warm and humid August day out there after a pouring rain storm last night, so a good day to stay indoors, at least for the morning.  

I finally managed to get a few mugs done for you. There are some new ones underway as well, so more will be coming this fall. I've been having a blast as usual playing around with various themes and experimenting with cool textures. Some of the images I have collected are just amazing and range from sexy mermaids, menacing mobsters, mythical beasts, weapons, monsters, dinosaurs, sexy pinup cowgirls, old cars, aliens and many beautiful examples from the natural world. So much fun, and not the usual subject matter for pottery. 

Mug #1: Classic Western Theme with pretty cowgirl, handsome cowboy, lasso and galloping horse inside. Amber Glaze. $65 plus shipping:

All three gone in a flash, thank you so much!  

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Mug #2: Wanted Dead or Alive: Amber glaze with horse, wanted poster, sheriff badge and Colt Peace Maker inside. $65 plus shipping:

  

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Mug #3 John Dillinger: Model A Coupe, John Dillinger, Bank Roll, and .38 pistol inside. $65 plus shipping:

  

 

Bronze KingPins

Happy Tuesday Folks!

We've got a warm and humid start to the month of August. After more than seven inches of rain in the past week I think we can safely say that our semi drought conditions have ended and that is a good thing.

Today I have a handful of Bronze KingPins for you. Such a handy tool which I find myself using frequently for numerous tasks like knot work and mixing epoxy. My wife loves hers too and she uses it all the time for building her cool miniatures. I have always liked how the fluted design helps with the grip and prevents the tool from rolling away when you set it down.

This group was all stamped with the Atwood name stamp years ago. There are lots more KingPins in other materials still to be finished (Ti, Cu and Zr), but these are the last of the bronze pieces. I will keep hand grinding batches of pins as time goes on, so lots more KingPins will be coming soon.

Bronze KingPins will run $75 plus shipping and the link is below. Thanks for popping in today and I hope your week is unfolding nicely.

All gone, thank you guys! 

 

More Timascus Mini 5 Flutes

Howdy folks,

It's a rainy one here today with about 2 inches in the forecast. We had an inch last night already, so we're definitely getting a good drenching.

I'm getting ready to grind more KingPins and will have those very soon, maybe later this week or early next week. I have another round of PryDaddy Jr's on the bench right now and have started grinding them, so those will be coming very soon as well. There are more Pryons to finish too... I also have two flat steel projects underway and they are currently at S&W awaiting heat treat.  

Today I have a few dozen more Timascus Mini 5 Flutes for you. These have a wide variety of wild colors and a mix of finishes. This is such an interesting material and it's been a lot of fun trying out all kinds of ideas for arriving at the different color effects and finishes, some of which are very hard to duplicate, hehe... 

Timascus Mini 5 Flutes will run $48 plus shipping and the link is below. Thanks so much for coming by today, and I hope your week has been a good one so far.

All gone for now, thanks so much! 

 

A51 Zirconium Keytons

Howdy all, and Happy Wednesday,

Looks like we are shaping up for a nice day today. The hottest part of the summer may be behind us and we are settling into a nice stretch of reasonable temps for a few days. And we have gotten a little rain this week so the plants are pretty happy right now.

Today I have the last handful of Zirconium Keytons for you, and these all have A51 grinds! These are all stamped with a variety of images and there are two lefties available as well if anyone wants to email me for them. 

A51 Zr Keytons will run $85 plus shipping and the link is below. Thanks for coming by today and I hope your summer is going great.

All gone, thank you so much! 

 

More Zirconium Minis

Howdy All! It's a warm day here with a great deal of haze. The wild fires in Canada are sending a lot of smoke down our way and even though I can't smell it, the sun is giving off a weird orange light this morning because of all the particulates in the air.  

I've been busy grinding some new steel tools this week and will have some nifty light weight summer items soon. I took a little break from grinding pins, but will have some more KingPins coming up soon too.

Today I have another batch of Zirconium Mini 5 Flutes for you. The torch hardened, blackened and burnished finish really makes these shine and the durability will be extremely good. Just the thing for bags, tools and knives. This is a pretty big group so I will no doubt have plenty of these for the foreseeable future.

Zr Mini 5 Flutes will run $35 plus shipping and the link is below. Thanks for popping in, as always, and hope your summer is going great!

  

 

Acid Washed Timascus

Happy Tuesday Everyone!

It's dark and dripping out there this morning after our half inch of rain last night. Temps are so much cooler too, will be around 70f today at best. This is the heart of the muggy warm summer for us and I'm hoping we see a couple of small thunderstorms every week so that I don't have to water my garden every day. The gardens are flourishing right now and the first squash and green beans are coming in. Should have some ripe cherry tomatoes in another week or two. 

Well today I have something interesting for you. I was fooling around with various finishes and came up with this really cool new one for Timascus. I'm calling it an acid washed finish, and for you folks who are Timascus Curious but not big fans of bright colors, this one is for you. These result from a multi stage process which combines heat, acid etching, electrical anodizing and a final burnish step to achieve these warm gray tones with understated and subtle coloration. The process is a bit involved, but make for some really fun and unique effects.

Acid Washed Timascus Beads will run $48 plus shipping and the link is below. Thanks as always for coming by today, and I hope you all are having a fine summer so far.

Sold out, thank you so much!

 

 

Anodized Titanium KingPins

Happy Monday Folks! It's a dark and gloomy one here today with a chance of rain this afternoon which we could really use. Hope to see at least a half inch of rain if not a little more overnight.

Well, I managed to finish a couple dozen more of the Titanium KingPins for you, and this time they are anodized a wide variety of colors, as well as with a wide variety of stamps. I do still have a couple of plain stamped ones without anodizing as well if color is not your thing, just let me know...there will be a bunch more of these coming as the summer goes on and I get more pins ground, but this is what I have for today.

Anodized Titanium KingPins will run $85 plus shipping and the link is below. Thanks for coming by today and I hope you stay cool this week!

All gone for today, thank you!