How To Use Polymer Clay Tools
Just thread your beads on the needles and then set the needle across a baking pan.
How to use polymer clay tools. Grab some tools and a ball of clay and make some faces letters and numbers or perhaps a weird and wonderful creature. Tips on carving polymer clay. The point of the needles can also be used as a tool for making designs in your polymer clay.
This is really just a fun exercise to get things started so dont worry about neatness at this stage. Properly cured clay wont chip when its carved. - A rod or roller.
Polymer Clay Extruder I have left this to last as I class this as a little bit of a luxury but non the less a tool I use frequently. - An old toothbrush. Or you can use them as part of a bead rack set-up.
It cost about 25. To make carving easier try warming the polymer clay slightly under your desk lamp. Secondly you do need patience for this.
However if you dont want to buy a needle tool you can always use toothpick. - A long scraper blade. Cleaning your hands removing dirt and grime from a finished unbaked piece removing excess mica powders or chalks and much more.
2000 is also nice to have A good quality artists paint brush. You need 400 600 and 1200 grits. I use a toaster oven that I bought from K-mart our version of Walmart.