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I've had pretty good luck with canes using SculpeyIII over the 8 years I've
been using it. The key is to use it in cooler temps. If my apartment is over 75 degrees, I move my workspace into my air-conditioned bedroom! Also leaching that bright purple may be necessary...it seems to get nastily sticky and gross. Letting it sit is definitely helpful. My cane's are relatively simpler than something like a face or butterfly or something like that. Experiment and decide for yourself. On refrigerating: I don't do that anymore because when it comes out of the fridge/freezer, it perspires and slides around on my workspace glass. If you're cutting it on a non-stick surface, that will probably help a LOT. ALSO, even within one brand, the softness can vary VERY much! For example, Sculpey III chocolate brown and red hot red are typically hard for me, while that bright purple I mentioned above is sometimes unusable. If you notice while building the cane that the different colors vary during conditioning, then the cane may come out a bit different than you planned. My first (first out of TWO) face cane ended up looking like MonkeyBoy...totally distorted, but brought a lot of laughs to people who saw it! AEW "Linda B" wrote in message om... You can also look at the types of clay you are using. Sculpy III is terrible for canes. It is too soft and distorts a lot. I like to use Premo or Fimo for my canes I sell on ebay. They remain firm but can be softened up with work and warmth if needed. I also use a tissue blade for my slicing. Always remember to let your cane rest occasionally during the reducing process. As you are reducing you are also heating and softening the clay. This can cause distortion. I reduce a cane about 1/3 of the way, let it sit for about an hour or 30 minutes, and other third and rest and then the rest of the way. This seems to help. Good luck on your canes. Linda B http://www.geocities.com/pinchyspolymerplace/ http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/pinchette/ "Dawn Stubitsch" wrote in message ... If you freeze the cane first it might help too or throw it in the freezer when your cane starts to distort for a minute to firm it up. Dawn Stubitsch http://www.thumbprintkids.com http://www.thumbprintkids.com/pages/caketoppers.html "JAMES RICH" wrote in message ... I've been experimenting with polymer clay for about a year with a little success; one thing I'd like to do more of is canes. I've done a few with some luck, but many of them seem to lose definition when I reduce them, which I understand is not supposed to happen. And even my ones that stay nice in the middle seem to get squashed a little when I slice them. Any advice how to avoid these pitfalls would be appreciated. Thank you. Barbara |
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