Slab Box step by step

We are in the beginning stages of our textured slab boxes this year, if you've missed any steps this should catch you up:

 Step 1: Make a paper template, this will be used to finalize your form, and then the paper pieces will be taken apart to cut them out of your slabs.

 Step 2: Roll out slab(s), should be 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick, then place your paper template pieces on slab to trace and cut.

 Step 3: before the slab pieces have reached a leather-hard state, stamp them (using the stamp you made and any other found objects or professional stamps) BE CAREFUL with your pressure, try not to press to hard or handle your slabs before they are L-H, they will lose their shape.

ALLOW WORK TO GET LEATHER-HARD before joining.

 Step 4: Decide how you will join your slab pieces, the method shown above required the slabs to be cut at an angle to fit together nicely. Then score and slip.

 *this show another method of joining, slabs were not cut at an angle, instead the slab pieces are just one on top of the other

 Step 5: once the 2 slab pieces are joined using the score and slip method, a small coil is smushed in the joint, as reinforcement.  **Make sure the coil is very plastic clay, and you wet the area first so that it sticks securely

Continue attaching with all the slab pieces. Use a coil on all the joints.