June 25th, 2008 by Colonel Tiki
This Saturday I am hosting Tiki Kon VI, a wild tour of two Portland Tiki bars and two Home Bars of Portland-area denizens.
At Thatch, I’ll be giving a short Tiki Mixology seminar and offering thirteen classic and new Tiki beverages on our menu. This is what is in store for our group of intrepid Tiki Adventurers:
| Cobra’s Fang |
Mai Tai |
| Cuba Kula |
Miehana |
| Darker Magic |
Navy Grog |
| Fog Cutter |
Nui Nui |
| Happy Hoti |
Penang Afrididi #1 |
| Jet Pilot |
QB Cooler |
| Lei Lani Volcano |
The weather should be in the middle 90s and sunny. Our last stop will be a home bar with a pool. I think by that time, I will be just about ready to immediately jump in.
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July 20th, 2007 by Colonel Tiki
Hey folks! No time today for much text, so here are more photos of the slip casting process:

Georgie’s Slip, ready to become Tiki mugs

Pouring the slip into the bucket

The interior of the plaster mold

Moving slip from bucket to pitcher for pouring

Pouring slip

Slow going pour

Drying slip

Starting to pour out the non-dried slip

Slip dripping upside down

Right side up, sprue has been scored to aid in drying

Starting to pull of top after slip drying process

Top is off!

Drying after top removed

Removing from mold the wrong way (turn mold upside down and have gravity help you)

Out of the mold

Craig cleaning

Heather cleaning

More Heather cleaning

Hello, gorgeous!

Drying on the rack

Drying on the rack 2
See you in the funny papers!
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July 16th, 2007 by Colonel Tiki
Our Tiki Mug ceramicist had to cancel. We won’t have our full mug production for the crawl. We will have a limited run we’re doing ourselves, though. We’re still getting the full run done for the mugs; We’ll sell them through the store as the 2nd run. Time to make lemonade. Rum Demon whom I randomly ran into in Vegas already had agreed to help me with the molds, so we’re going to do as many as we can ourselves.
Now, for a Plan B lemonade experience, hand-producing a limited edition of mugs with a brilliant artist ain’t particulary shabby.
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