Extrusion and Inlay

Posted by on Jan 27, 2005 in Polymer Art

This "tetris" walnut bowl shows my recent fascination with extrusions. I’m planning to pursue this further. The first piece in this series sold quickly to a chemical engineer who liked it and kindly explained some principles of fluid dynamics to me. Armed with some knowledge of how the polymer clay is traveling down that cylinder, I’m anxious to experiment further.

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  1. Polymer Clay Daily » Extruder fun
    2/12/2008

    [...] My hunt for a good small extruder (see an earlier project) became such an odyssey that I felt I could break my rule not to discuss tools on this blog. The BullensWullens adapter (contact pat@bullenswullens.com) was developed by an Ohio couple which makes my discovery doubly special. [...]