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When I work on an unbaked pendant I put it on an acrylic block

When I work on a baked pendant I put raw clay on the acrylic block then put the baked pendant on the raw clay to work on it

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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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.