Wood & Polomer Clay

[GBF]

Hi Ken you bake it in an oven about 30 min at 130.
That cures it

Regards George

[Mark Sanger]

What a great collaboration. Very much like the effect of the polymer clay and having worked with it (a little) I know it has huge potential. Looking forward to seeing more as this is a great addition to you latest exploration.

[bernuk1]

Sounds like a great day for both in the making of this and I like the polomer clay effect.
I have seen it put to some very dramatic effects. Some one makes flower shapes and the makes it in to pen blanks by arranging them around the tube very much like you have done around the rim.

Toni Ransfield makes superb polymer clay pen blanks.https://www.claypenblanks.com/
also Natalia Truckle in UK.

[GBF]

What has that got to do with our bowl Mike

Websites, Videos & other sources of interest    is where you should put it.

Regards george

[bernuk1]

What has that got to do with our bowl Mike

Websites, Videos & other sources of interest    is where you should put it.

Regards george

I was responding to a part of Derek's post (in this thread)  But thank you for telling me what I should and shouldn't do for the second time this week-I'll not bother again !
Mike.

[GBF]

It is impolite to take a thread off topic.
Dereks comment was comment was part of his cmment on the bowl.

Regards George

[georg]

      Your Granddaughter has achieved something special there George.
      Kind Regards Tony di

[John D Smith]

 
 Hi George,
                 I think you was a little tough on Derek he was only talking about the Polymer Clay.

                                                     Regards John

[GBF]

Read it again John not a problem with Derek he was saying about clay as part of his comment on the Bowl.

My problem was Mike leading it of on another topic when he was not commenting on the bowl
If you look back through the thread Mike never commented on the bowl his only comment was to get members looking elswhere
I pointed out that there is a proper place for recomendations

Regards George

[John D Smith]

 Thank you George you are quite right it is all these quotes that got me confused which is not difficult sorry

                                                  Regards John

[ken rodgers]

Hi Ken you bake it in an oven about 30 min at 130.
That cures it


George thanks for the info.Do not think my wife would be happy to do this in our new oven!!

[GBF]

Do it when she is not their LOL
to be honest there is no smell from it.

Regards George

[Wood spinner]

My opinion on this is " Less is more " think the clay is dominant , a norrower band just to compliment would be better proportoned , but its just my oppinion 

[GBF]

My opinion on this is " Less is more " think the clay is dominant , a norrower band just to compliment would be better proportoned , but its just my oppinion 

I always try and get a balance between wood and decoration the idea being that the colour band is sat on top of the wood and the plain band either side of it ties it in with the inner Bowl.
I dont really see how a thinner band would be an improvement but you might be right.
How do you see it the coloured band complimenting the wood or the wood complimenting the coloured band.
I would also be interested in how others see the proportions and whether they work as they are

Regards George

[bodrighywood]

Personally I think that having a thinner bamd would just make it different, not improve it. A case of beauty in the eye of the beholder. I suspect that the band would become a more dramatic feature in a paler wood but again it's a matter of preference. I am sure this is just the first one and you will be experimenting with Ali and trying different versions so look forward to those.

Pete