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    Handmade clay hides!?

    I think I might just do this..! Do you forsee any possible problems?

    I Don't know how they would hold heat..

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    Re: Handmade clay hides!?

    Quote Originally Posted by Capray View Post
    I think I might just do this..! Do you forsee any possible problems?

    I Don't know how they would hold heat..
    http://www.****blick.com/products/am...ex-white-clay/

    http://www.****blick.com/products/am...-clay/#reviews

    Non-toxic and looks/feels like stone.
    Can be tinted any color with non-toxic pigments.

    I've considered it myself.

    They'd probably 'hold heat' just as well as the clay flower pot hides some keepers use.

    I was worried it would 'dissolve' if it got wet but I had a box of it accidentally get exposed to air and no matter how long I soaked it, I could not 'resurrect it' to usable, pliable clay again.

    It gets really hard.

    You can also bake it and seal with non-toxic acrylic sealer.


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    Re: Handmade clay hides!?

    sweet, thanks!

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    You also could look for a potter whom offers classes and see if you could spend an afternoon building clay hides and have them fired and glazed. I know one who you buy the clay amount from her and then dry is according to the sheet she hands out and then return it for a fee she then fires is for you.

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    Re: Handmade clay hides!?

    Yes, I thought of this because my mom actually makes sculptures at a studio with a kiln! I starts again ant the beginning of the school ear, I'd have to wait until then..

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