How To Make Your Own Sculpting Tools

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How to make your own sculpting tools. The download is completely free for using it privately. Now that you know about the different types of clay at your disposal its important to cover some of the most common tools a sculptor can use for modeling cl. These tools can be expensive.

So first you need a mechanical pencil. Pottery or firing clay a water-based clay which can be shaped and fired at temperatures in excess of 121C to stay firm. The Clay tool is useful for building up your sculpture.

In this video Im going to show you how to make your own custom clay sculpting tools out of some easy to find objects. There are lots of those pencils around. Place the tube on a hard work surface and roll the blade on the tube whilst pressing down.

Use the pipe cutter to cut a length of tubing to around 6 150mm. In fact I made three versions with holes in 10 mm 20 mm and 30 mm size for holding 1mm 2mm and 3mm tool tips like you can see on the following picture. So thats the news for today.

Incidentally if you dont have a pipe cutter a sharp craft knife or blade will work. So I cut off pieces with a length of 10-11 cm from these aluminum rods like you can see on the following picture. The idea behind that is that you use the mechanical pencil as a holder and instead of the lead you place sculpting tool tips made of 1mm strong spring steel wire into the pencil.

Materials - Two needle nose pliers - Wire cutter can be on the pliers - Coping or jewelry saw blades wire or whatever youd like for your tool - Brass tubing old paint brushes or metal knitting needles - Small butane torch - Epoxy - Super glue. Then I drilled an axial hole on each side. Gladly Blender is OpenSource so you will be able to get the sourcecode and change it to your likings.