Tools

[lpreinl]

Hi everyone,
I get the impression that everyone on here, lives close a superb supply of
polymer clay and related goods and this makes me feel jealous. I have to
travel quite a way to get even a half decent supply of Fimo (never even seen
any other polymer clays) So I go about once or twice a year only. Can you
get other ones (and Fimo) in the UK (by postal order) and if so from where?
And in regard of tools, I am using a few wooden tools designed for ordinary
clay which are'nt bad, I found cake decorating tools are mostly too big for
what I want and there is no specialist shop near me anyway. But I have seen
my dentist use a very interesting little tool, looked perfect for smoothing
and moulding (stiffish) Fimo (do I sound crazy, thinking about modeling when
in a dentists chair?) But I didn't have the courage to ask where I could get
such a tool from and what it is called. Has anyone got any ideas, where I
could start looking? (Got a friend/relative who is a dentist?)
I'd be happy for any E-mails I get, as I do not get the chance to visit this
group as often as I'd like.

Thanks

Linda

[Jeanne]

My dental hygienist gave me a bunch of old dental tools. Those things do
wear out, but are still useful for claying. I go to a flea market which has
a medical supply booth in Elizabethtown, KY. They have tons of things that
are great for polymer clay. I've seen the dental tools there. I use them
for sculpting all the time. I have since learned that lots of dental
hygienists and dentists have hobbies of sculpting. My dentist worked in
lost wax method and made jewelry. My hygienist sculpt in polymer clay.
Jeanne
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[Sarah Lawrence]

Linda,
Try www.craftynotions.com

happy clay

Sarah

[The Crafty Owl]

For all sorts of things polyclay in Britain including different clays
and tools, go to www.heaser.demon.co.uk - Sue Heaser's web site which
leads to the British Polymer Clay Guild site and the Polymer Claypit
'shop' site.

Do ask your dentist if he has an old one of these tools - or try an art
shop, the Triumph Press art shop in Edgware, for example, has dental
tools for crafters/artists. If you ARE near Edgware, or indeed London,
contact me for info on meetings where polyclayers get together to
exchange ideas and supplier info. If you are elsewhere in the UK, the
guild can tell you where your local group is, if you join.
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{'-'} The Crafty Owl
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[Sjpolyclay]

>I get the impression that everyone on here, lives close a superb supply of
>> polymer clay and related goods and this makes me feel jealous.

No need for jealousy---most of us mail order and you can too. There are
listings of sources in may places, one of them is on my webpage
www.polyclay.com/links.htm
and sources is at the top.
Now I USED to live right down the street from the Clay Factory in Escondidom
and it IS one of the few things I miss about California life...

Dental tools are wonderful, and that's where I got started. Grandpa was a
dentist that specialized in building/fitting prothetics, and he taught me how
to make molds from moulage (an ancestor of our Elasticlay)and how to work with
plaster, and how to put your tools away clean and where you found them...I
still have many of them, now that he's been gone for 16 years, and I think of
him when ever I use them.
Sarajane Helm

Sarajane's Polymer Clay Gallery
www.polyclay.com