Odd sink challenge: making it slope

kevin · 2006-01-16T16:14:25+00:00

Hello!I've got a small sink make from a plain white ceramic salad bowl. Itwas mounted on a counter, and a hole was cut through for a chrome drainpipe. Looks nice, but there is a problem. The bottom of the bowl --about 1.5 inches radius beyond the edge of the drain pipe -- is prettymuch completely level, and worse, the metal drain pipe lip is raisedabout 1mm above the level of the ceramic. Hence some water never drains(horrible for toothpaste, for example).Replacing the sink isn't an option -- is is smaller than I have beenable to find commercially, and a custom (pottery) sink costs a bit toomuch. The space it is in is not amenable to standard sinks, and we likethe exact size and dimensions of the existing sink anyway.Here are three possibly bad ideas. Can anyone comment or offer a bettersuggestion?I could try and grind out a depression for the drain lip to sit in, butno idea how I could do this reasonable well.Fill up the bottom 1mm of the sink with "tough-as-tile" epoxy paint orsimilar (and maybe paint the rest too, to make sure the color matches).Do this in 2 or 3 layers. It would still leave a level area at thebottom of the sink, but at least no raised lip. Can it go on thisthick? Will it crack?Lastly: do the same, but let it cure while sitting on a motorizedpotter's wheel type contraption. The spinning would push the epoxyoutward, leaving the bottom sloped to the middle. This seems justunrealistic most likely.Thanks in advance-Kevin