Sollux Horns - Casting on Porcelain

It's been a while since I've worked on these!  The reason being that my basement is being torn up, and I have to do all of my ceramic work there since it's so messy.  I took a day and managed to make a work space for myself though, so here goes!

Supplies!  I have a ton of Ultra Chic porcelain slip left over from my individual study in college, so I'm going to use what I have lying around.  Other than that I have a strainer, an old coffee pot to pour with, and a mold!  I have to strain the porcelain before using it to make sure it pours smoothly.

All poured into the mold!  My mold is all dry right now so it's going to cast pretty quickly.  So that I can gauge when I need to pour the excess porcelain slip out I poured some on top.  Once that little extra bit on top is dry I can pour the liquid center out.

Letting the porcelain drip out!  I didn't think about it when making the mold, but it's a little awkward to cast both horns at once since they're spaced just so that they won't pour back into the slip jar.

After they're all poured out here I have a shell of slip inside my mold, woo!

After giving it some time for the porcelain to harden a little more in the mold I pull it apart.  You know it's time to pull the mold apart either when it come apart without any pulling, or the porcelain starts to pull away from the edges. The porcelain shrinks a little as it dries.

Carefully pull it out of the mold.  Be gentle, porcelain is very fragile before firing!

Cut off the pour hole, it's junk.

Lastly you clean up the seam lines a little, I drilled some holes so that I would have something to firmly attach them with.  Firing comes next!  I'm waiting until I have a few pairs to fire so that I'll have extras, and that may take another week or so since I have to wait until the mold is dry enough for me to cast more.