How Do You Use Clay Tools

I use a toaster oven that I bought from K-mart our version of Walmart.

How do you use clay tools. It cannot be air-dried and it cannot be microwaved. These soft Ribs work beautifully for shaping and smoothing out your clay. The best DIY do-it-yourself texture tool to create an impression of wool or carpet is made of toothpicks.

You can use them to chop up bits of clay when trying to soften hard polymer clay. Polymer clay must be baked. Its cheap and easy isnt it.

Workspace Ensure you have a section of table thats big enough to work on remember you dont need a whole table depending on the size of your work. There are instructions on the package. Open your sealed bag of clay and pinch off the amount of clay that you want to use.

Spoon - You can employ a smooth hard tool like the back of a spoon to push down the texture and burnish the clay. If you do it when the clay is dry you can get a real shininess to the clay. If it bends smoothly it should be useable.

But I most often use razor blades to scrape paint sealer or resin from the ceramic tiles that I use as a palette and work surface. If it cracks try adding more water. This prevents the drill bit from sliding around on the surface and damaging other areas of the clay.

Polymer clay Tools you will need. The soft Ribs work great for smoothing Transfers or Decals on your pottery. DIY Wool Texture Tool.