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You picked #5 |
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Naked Rock
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We started with this nekkid little desert
rock. Gave him a bath and voted on what clothes to put on him. Since this
is a desert rock and not a river rock, it's not as smooth. I needed no
release agent. |
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size of cane)(really) |
You picked #5 |
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Lined Shell
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Then we gave it clothes. Sliced the cane
with a NuBlade and ran the slices through the #4 setting on the pasta machine.
Baked at 275 for 15 min. (This is -original- Fimo, folks!) |
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Cut Open
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Shell cut and removed. I played with our
rock for 2 days trying to decide where to cut it. I took Jody's advice
and let it roll around in my hand first. Then I scored it with my NuBlade.
It didn't go all the way through, so I sliced deeper with a curved bladed
Xacto knife. The top just fell off, but the bottom was wider at one point
and required a little convincing with needle tool and NuBlade. I ended
up with a break in the shell and repaired it with Super Glue. The
TLS I tried didn't hold. Probably should have stuffed it with something
before I baked it. |
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 (actual
size of bottle) |
You picked # 5 again! |
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Cane 5 sliced crosswise with ripple blade.
They will go through the pasta machine on #5 setting. |
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 Here's
the whole sad story. After the shell was crunched, I attempted repairs
with Krazy Glue. That seemed to be okay until I started adding the outer
layer, then it cracked wide open in both places. I removed the outer layer,
brushed the whole thing with TLS and rebaked. Again, it held until I started
to cover it. |
I thought maybe if I put another
layer of TLS on and -then- covered it with the raw clay that it would help.
Nope. So I tried to coat inside and outside again with TLS, adding a slice
of the signature cane to the inside while I did. This was baked and it
held until I tried to put two tubes (to hold the cord) on either side,
again with TLS and rebaked.
The poor thing came out of the oven with
the smaller crack finally sealed, but the larger one had distorted all
out of shape. The tubes had fallen off at some point during the baking
process, too. <sigh> |
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| On a brighter note, I was bored
with waiting for the voting between all of these steps, so I made a second
purse in between. It's boring, but it's a rock purse. It will be in the
gallery. |
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If
anyone has any insight into what I could have done to save this piece,
please send it along so that I may learn
and share with our friends who
voted and clayed along. There is a link
to my email addy below.
~IR~ |
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