{"id":4414,"date":"2011-10-04T21:00:20","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T05:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/?p=4414"},"modified":"2023-02-22T14:36:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T22:36:29","slug":"what-a-bigger-extruder-can-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/04\/what-a-bigger-extruder-can-do\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Bigger Extruder Can Do"},"content":{"rendered":"

On page 68 of my book Patterns of Color in Metal Clay<\/a><\/em> you can see a photo of discs that I made for a polymer clay extruder, 1″ in diameter. This extruder is far from meeting our needs, but that’s all I have for now. I think I must have bought every type of cookie press available – both manual and electric – and they don’t seem to work. I also tried to construct my own from plumbing pipes, but it is not as easy as the 3\/4″ diameter one<\/a>. So I’ve been working with the polymer clay extruder, and I’d like to share my results with you. The extruder is big and heavy, but I will bring it to Studio 34 and Metalwerx next week so we can experiment together.<\/p>\n

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This is not the bracelet from the project on p. 78. Jennifer has that one, and I hope she is still happy with it. This is a new one. All the links were extruded at once through the slot of a 1″ disc.<\/p>\n

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These are designs that are impossible to make without a bigger extruder and a matching tube adapter. Here is a photo next to a penny, for scale.<\/p>\n

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How easy it would be to extrude decent size beads and bead cores.<\/p>\n

And for those of us who like big, chunky rings:<\/p>\n

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Speaking of which: it has come to my attention that people think it is possible to smear silver paste on the inside of a ring to avoid allergic reaction with the skin. I strongly recommend against it. If you are familiar with my book Silver and Bronze Clay: Movement and Mechanisms<\/a><\/em>, you probably know how disastrous the reaction between silver and bronze can be. You may end up losing a lot of expensive silver.<\/p>\n

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This was a copper\/bronze mokume-gane ring with silver lining before it was fired. Another ring lost its shank altogether.<\/p>\n

Lining rings with silver has to be done in special ways, and I will teach all about it in my Mokume-Gane Rings classes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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On page 68 of my book Patterns of Color in Metal Clay you can see a photo of discs that I made for a polymer clay extruder, 1″ in diameter. This extruder is far from meeting our needs, but that’s all I have for now. I think I must have bought every type of cookie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9437,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414\/revisions\/9437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}