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RE: A Look at the Goings On in My Studio Today
Ok... This is maybe going to sound a little silly. I only have a little experience with slumping glass and somewhat more with gingerbread houses but... do you have problems when you bake porcelain with the pieces changing shape a little so that they don't fit together the exact way that cut them? Your pieces seem to be perfectly fitted and rounded on their edges in the dog piece so they look like they came out of the kiln without slumping... just curious about the process.
Oh yes, they REALLY change once they go through 2 firings!! We've learned to work with this, to make shapes that warp less, to work with the clay in ways that make it warp less and sometimes even have to remake pieces. It's a good question and the answer is too long for a comment, sometime I'll do a post on our anti-warping techniques and will tag you.
Please do let me know. I'm quite interested. I somehow doubt it would apply to gingerbread 😉 but I always love knowing how things work. It seems that there must be quite a trick to it.