Power of Personalization: Gibson Dove Custom Guitar Urn

 

Custom, hand built ceramic guitar cremation urn.  In memory of a local Texas musician who loved his Gibson Dove acoustic guitar.  We had the honor of hand-delivering it to his widow outside of Austin.

The Power of Personalization: Custom Pedal Steel Guitar Urn

What a honor to create such a fun, neat memorial urn for a Florida musician...A custom pedal steel guitar, modeled after his particular instrument. #steelguitar #pedalsteel #musician #countrymusic #cremation #urn #oneofakind #customart #memorial #funeral #art #inmemory #westernswing #shobud #guitarist #musicislife #instamusic #loss #grief #mourning #personality #personalized #ceramic #sculpture #clay #model #makersgonnamake #handmade #artisan #etsyseller

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How It's Made: Wire Hanger for Wall Mount

Installing the high-temperature wire hanger used for hanging this YURN on a wall. The wire is fired into the clay body during the kiln firing process. All hangers on our YURNS are weight tested to 25lbs. to insure their safety when mounted as wall art. #cremation #urn #sculpture #remembrance #handmade #memorial #art #funeral #howitsmade #wallart #clay #guitar #grief #safetypatrol #care

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How It's Made: Inurnment Hatch

Cutting the inurnment hatch on backside of our "Garden Steward" YURN. #sunflower #butterfly #cremation #urn #handmadewithlove #art #memorial #clay #work #cutitout www.yurns.gallery

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How It's Made: An Artist's Trick

I watched my mom decorate hundreds of cakes growing up. She taught me how and now I put those skills to work on our ceramic "Garden Steward" YURNS. #ripmom #sunflower #memorial #cremation #urn #sculpture #naturelovers #thisicingtastesfunny #clay #skills #cakedecorating #icingbag www.yurns.gallery

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YURN'ing for a New Workshop

 

We are excited to have a new work space to build our YURNS! After working around some great spring rain, we completed the shell and electrical, and moved our YURNS supplies inside today!

We lost our prior shop in the Bastrop wildfire a few years ago, and for us, this new creative space has been a long time coming.

In order to move forward with our art endeavors, we were in major need of replacing our workshop, and moving our supplies/equipment out of our living room.  We decided to reuse the existing concrete slab where our old shop stood.

This is a exciting step towards progress with the business, and healing for our creative souls to have a new space to work!

Personalized Guitar YURN

For a young man from Pennsylvania...

"He played all the time."

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Novelty Urns: Behind the Scenes

The creative process for the artisans behind these unique urns comes from a place of authenticity and relating to everyday people. They look for the simple things that bring joy. The urns are subjects that represent people's passions and interests, reflecting their individuality and honor a life well-lived.

Each of these urns is a work of art produced solely by the team of two artisans. Their hands-on approach produces artisan quality sculptures that will vary slightly from piece to piece. No two will ever be exactly alike creating an heirloom-quality, unique work of art.

With a subject in mind, the artisans strive to create an iconic sculpture by modeling a clay representation. When they are satisfied with their model, they create a plaster mold of it. With a mold they employ a traditional slip-cast method to produce a hollow-bodied clay vessel.

Once the slip sets up in the mold and the clay piece is removed, the unfired clay or “greenware” is shaped, added to and refined as needed. At this stage, the artisans place high-temperature wire hangers into the clay body for wall-mounted pieces and hand cut the vessel’s opening for the inurnment hatch.

Once the greenware sculpting is complete, the piece air dries and is fired in a kiln to temperatures nearing 2000°F. The application of extreme heat to the clay body causes a chemical and physical reaction creating a permanently hardened material. The urns are hand-painted either before or after the kiln fire. A variety glazes or oxide washes are used in combination with acrylic paints, metallic waxes and a sealer to create the finishes of each product. Each urns takes about five to seven days from cast to finish.

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It's Some Serious Work Indeed

Making model sculptures is fun....making plaster molds is stressful....pouring slip-casts is heavy work...and waiting for clay greenware to dry feels excruciatingly slow. 
It is definitely a process figuring out these prototypes, and we are anxious to have successful kiln fires.  Now, we look forward to working out our presentation of the finished products!