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Tuesday, May 03, 2005
Anyone tried making clay poker chips?
Does anyone have any experience of trying, and if so what materials to use ?When I was demoing at a rubber stamp show a couple of weeks ago, rolling out Premo, cutting a circle with a cutter and then putting a texture/pattern on both sides by pressing it between two rubber stamps, that's what people thought I was making. I thought I was just showing how to get great textures with stamps. I think polymer clay would be a fine material to use for poker chips. The only problem I see is that relatively thin items, as I assume your poker chips would be, sometimes come out not completely flat (a little curved, warped, rippled, whatever you care to call it) after baking. You could flatten them out by putting something heavy on them as soon as they come out of the oven, while they're still warm. However, this would obviously smash any raised areas, so any "relief" effect that you wanted would be ruined. To keep them flat while baking, you might try baking them between two sheets of tempered glass -- not something I've tried, but it ought to work. Of course, that would also smash any relief designs on the chips.
If you're completely new to polymer clay, I'd suggest looking for a message called "Welcome to rec.crafts.polymer-clay," which is posted to this group frequently (I can't recall if it's weekly or every two weeks). It will give you a good general introduction to working with polymer clay. With regard to brands of polymer clay, Sculpey III is the easiest to use but is also the most brittle. It's still fairly durable and ought to be OK for poker chips - I think most problems with breakage occur with small thin parts of the clay item (such as fingers or noses), which I assume your chips won't have. (Not that there would be anything wrong with poker chips with noses -- heaven knows stranger things have been done with polymer clay!)
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