like the most of us I accumulated a lot of scrap clay and needed to clean my clay table, it's fun putting this clay together and twisting and cut through it and voile' an interesting pattern emerges. Many times your piece is thick and can be a pendant by itself but I found it more interesting to slice it with my LC Slicer, getting thin veneer and now you have more control over your design and what you do with it, the trouble is your piece isn't that thick and can't go all the way up to the blade, some put scrap clay on the back, but I put an acrylic block behind it and it was perfect.
the green and yellow was thinner and I needed to push the acrylic block closer to the blade by hand was very easy to do, here are a couple pictures of the acrylic block, it measures 4" square x almost 1/2" thick.
the acrylic blocks are originally sold with rubber stamps, a base for unmounted stamps to stick to, they come in all sizes, I have one 12" long, the opening is 6" so if you have to buy one I'd pick the 6" square.
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