[TheForge] Bored. Indoor clay-"forging" (was OT: Chain Saws)

[Jerry Frost]

Something else that's fun and informative to do with 
modeling clay along these lines is model damascus / 
pattern welds.

Lay up your billet from different colors of modeling 
clay, do your manipulations and see how it works out.

If you want to turn things around some; use real clay, 
say a good quality porcelain. Dust different layers, or 
wedge clay for different layers, with different color 
glaze pigments. Lay up the billets, manipulate it and 
fire the results. Sometimes they will just 
selfdestruct, sometimes it comes out really cool 
though.

All kinds of games you can play with clay and a kiln. 
Gotta love what a really hot fire can do, you know. 
<grin>

Frosty
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From: "Albin Drzewianowski" <dski1045 at qis.net>


> Bruce,
>
> ((fyi  your question below, to me,  never made it to 
> my inbox???)
>
> Since the plasticine seems to be oil based, the water 
> does not seem to affect it.  I put the clay billets 
> in the baggies so that drying off the clay is one 
> less hassle to deal with.  Without the baggies, would 
> have to have a supply of rags or papertowels.
>
> Often when doing the clay demonstration we find that 
> the groups of children arrive in spurts.  No kids for 
> half an hour and then all of a sudden a whole den of 
> cubscouts, all wanting to try forging at once.   So 
> anything that streamlines the process helps.
>
> Maybe it is my imagination, but it seems that 
> children are much more impatient than they used to 
> be.  I think at one times parents would correct the 
> impatient tyke as part of the socializing process. 
> today, the parents are just as impatient as the child 
> 8^(
>
> D-ski
> Westminster, MD
> "The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne"
>