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Making Tools
Making Tools
I decided to make clay tools, I looked around and didn't find much, then I remembered my box of needles in my sewing kit, one curved needle for making lines in clay, one double needle to make button holes, I made two long needles, one is triangle shaped, I can't wait to see what it can do or what I can do with it! The other tools I will use to create texture.
All but one tool were sewing needles, all of those I put wire through the eye and twisted it a few times so it can't slip out of the baked clay, I used scrap wire, different gauges, it doesn't matter what gauge you use, they will all grab the clay. The one with many needles are glass head pins, I thought they were ideal because they won't slip out but it was hard to put them the way I wanted., now I will look for pins with a flat top, that should be better. When I made the double needles to make buttonholes I put a small piece of 20 gauge wire in between the two needles, that was enough to keep the space between the two needles to make buttonholes, The T-pins are good because you don't have to put wire or anything else, it can't slide out, usually you can get then from your dry cleaners, they pin your clothes to the paper on the hangers. I covered it with UV resin to keep it clean, I made a tool years ago that discolored from the oils and dirt on my hands from working with clay. Here is the resin I used, I applied it with a brush
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I decided to make clay tools, I looked around and didn't find much, then I remembered my box of needles in my sewing kit, one curved needle for making lines in clay, one double needle to make button holes, I made two long needles, one is triangle shaped, I can't wait to see what it can do or what I can do with it! The other tools I will use to create texture.
All but one tool were sewing needles, all of those I put wire through the eye and twisted it a few times so it can't slip out of the baked clay, I used scrap wire, different gauges, it doesn't matter what gauge you use, they will all grab the clay. The one with many needles are glass head pins, I thought they were ideal because they won't slip out but it was hard to put them the way I wanted., now I will look for pins with a flat top, that should be better. When I made the double needles to make buttonholes I put a small piece of 20 gauge wire in between the two needles, that was enough to keep the space between the two needles to make buttonholes, The T-pins are good because you don't have to put wire or anything else, it can't slide out, usually you can get then from your dry cleaners, they pin your clothes to the paper on the hangers. I covered it with UV resin to keep it clean, I made a tool years ago that discolored from the oils and dirt on my hands from working with clay. Here is the resin I used, I applied it with a brush
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Tuesday, September 18, 2018
To make alcohol ink I used a pliers to remove the tip of a dried up Sharpie permanent marker. I used a tweezers to remove the ink cartridge nub, I placed that whole thing in the small bottle and added 91% alcohol half way, after a week I thought it didn't look dark enough for the amount of alcohol so I added another ink, now it's very dark, it worked great in resin. I had no mess, I didn't use rubber gloves, but one I had to brake it in half to get the ink cartridge out, I used a scissors to cut it in half. These are dried up markers so when I broke it in half ink did not squirt out. Many people asked me how to do it, I hope I explained good enough.
Monday, March 7, 2016
LC Slicer and Natasha Beads
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.
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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