It took two days and LOTS of clay, 2 broken pasta machine’s but I finally finished my robot cane. Anyone who works with caning in polymer clay knows that feeling in the pit of your stomach when you’ve finally reduced the cane and are ready to slice it and see what happened between the constructing and reducing. I was so nervous, it’s an awful feeling after putting tons of money (clay), time, and emotional investment into a cane and have it come out distorted. So caning is an act of faith, patience and overcoming your fear of failure.
Here he is:
Isn’t he adorable? my next cane is going to be a rocket ship that will match the robot. You wouldn’t believe how much clay I used for this guy. Now I’m out and will need to wait until more comes in the mail. I use Kato Clay, hard to condition, but it makes the best canes of all the clays. I’m learning that I need to use the food processor to condition the clay first and then I put it in a strong ziploc baggie and roll it out into a thin sheet with the rolling pin so that it will fit into the largest setting of the pasta machine. This guy started out so big that while he was just a square, minus the antennae and ear bolts, I had to reduce it so it would be manageable once the other parts were added.
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I love Mr. Robot!
Thanks Sara!!
that is so cool it looks like candy rock..
is it used for something or will it just be a decoration?
I slice them and then put them on beads for jewelry. Check out my etsy shop
http://www.etsy.com/shop/riverwolfeartjewelry