Russ, you're the man. However, if i'm not pressing, just building/stacking, I use very little porcelain and a very fine tipped brush (smileline). All my anatomy is built in, If it takes me more than 1 min to finish a crown, I didn't build it correctly. I will use a endo file ( size 5 or 10) to create some deeper grooves coming out of the fossa, but still do this in the building stage. Chicken scratches result from a ceramist who would rather finish (lazy way) his/her anatomy in with a handpiece rather than build it (just my observations). Another neat little trick for all you small labs I learned along the way to cut cost is, I never mix porcelain on a glass slab, I work directly out of the bottles, less waste and saves time. Hope this helps.
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