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MAKE YOUR OWN FINE SCULPTING TOOLS

Use a piece of solid copper electrical wire, available in several diameters.   Pound the end of the wire into a flat shape with a hammer, on a flat piece of steel.   Then file, sandpaper, and hone it with a sharpening stone.   If you sculpt in wax, add a handle, so you can heat the tool with an alcohol lamp.   Otherwise, you may just want to use a longer piece of copper wire, and let the wire be your handle.

Above is a homemade tool along with commercial tools from two manufacturers.   These tool pictures will help you get an idea of what sort of shapes are popular.   You can invent your own shapes, and make your tools smaller or larger than what is commercially available.   Tools like these are great for additive sculpting in media such as polymer clay, modeling clay, and wax.       See examples of highly detailed sculpture I made using these types of tools on the vulcanizer page.       Read my casting book to find a recipe for homemade oil-based modeling clay - a real cost saver for big projects and big classes -   along with smart low-cost methods, equipment plans, and materials for mold making , to reproduce your sculptures as castings.   This is an original book, available only through NHSouth.com

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