[TheForge] Fwd: "Modeling Dough"

[Bruce .]

If I understand it correctly, modeling clay is dry clay mixed with oil.
Mineral oil should do fine.
An advantage of the Modeling Dough is that it doesn't get oil on your
fingers.
If you really want to go cheap, mix 1 cup each of corn starch, fine-grained
salt, and water in a saucepan and heat with stirring till it thickens.
That's basically what PlayDoh is, though their formula may differ.
Bruce
NJ


On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 5:55 PM Walter <wmullett22 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Bruce - Just a few days ago, I was thinking about how I could soften my
> clay.  Your email inspired me to google it and here is a site I found:
> https://www.sculpturehouse.com/t-faq.aspx .   Seems that heating it and
> adding some 'household' oil will do it.  But what is household oil?  I'm
> going to try mineral oil.
>
> Walt
>
>
>
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> For those interested in trying out "forging" on toy plasticine clay, I've
> found an alternative worth considering. Dollar Tree sells (in the toy
> section) Modelling Dough, labeled nontoxic. A 1-lb carton of four colors
> (red, yellow, green and black!) is, like everything at Dollar Tree, only
> $1.
>
> This is a PlayDoh alternative, not actually plasticine clay. The
> consistency is quite soft, so it needn't be hammered at all, but you might
> want "hammer" tools to push it around. What's interesting to me is that it
> moves nicely and doesn't seem to split or crack the way some other modeling
> compounds do.
>
> Aside from testing the consistency, I've done nothing with this stuff. I
> merely keep a lookout for potentially useful materials. Th instructions
> say "Add a few drops of water if dough dries out." I occasionally like to
> try a "forging" in clay before heading to the forge, and the last cheap
> plasticine clay I got (some months ago at Walmart or a dollar store,
> probably) has since hardened up so much that it's no longer usable --
> though possibly considerable kneading would restore it.
>
> Bruce
> NJ
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