Friday, November 17, 2006

Home made clay tools

I've spent part of today doing idle hands work making myself some tools for working with polymer clay.

I'm taking bits of floral wire and shaping it into the shaping tools that I want, then wrapping an aluminum foil handle onto that and covering the handle in polymer clay. The end result is a set of clay working tools that fit comfortbaly to my hands and will do what I need done when I work with clay.

I plan to paint the handles after the clay has been baked, then to seal it. So far I have three made and have a 4th in the works. I want to get at least 6 made before I bake them.

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