![]() The more Likes a video gets, the higher it rises in the searches. Oh and don’t forget to give these videos a Thumbs Up click at YouTube if you are enjoying them. My goal is to help you to learn quicker and easier ways to bring up the professionalism in your polymer clay art. Related Video: Strength Test Sculpey Souffle Polymer Clayĭo you have any suggestions for videos on tips, techniques or products you would like to learn more about? Let me know in the comments section below!.Related Video: Pardo Professional Art Clay Translucent Review.Related Article: Translucent Sculpey Clay, Fimo Clay, Premo, Cernit, Kato.Related Video: Comparing Translucent Polymer Clay Brands.My conclusion… save your ice for Iced Tea or Iced Coffee, because it doesn’t make a difference… except I suppose if you need your clay cool in a hurry!.I tried to tear them), to see if quenching improved the strength… there was no discernable difference in strength between any of the samples tested. All the samples were bent, folded and torn (well. The samples were then tested for strength.Then I tested the thicker pieces for improved clarity… no difference there either.Hmm… starting to think this quenching thing really is a wives tale!.The quenched clay and the non-quenched clay were identical. Next, I tested for clarity by placing thin samples against a text background, to see how well you could see through the translucent clay.I would say that these results are typical for translucent polymer clay, in general. Both of the thicker pieces have an identical yellowish hue with low translucency… and the thin samples, both have an identical whitish shade with my translucency test. I tested both sets of baked samples (the quenched set and the non-quenched set), to see if there is any difference between the two… with regards to clarity and strength.All of the samples were baked at 275F for 1 hour.Each sample set has two different chips of Premo White Translucent rolled to an 8 playing cards thickness, and the other to a 1 playing card thickness.I have two sets of test samples… one was left to cool naturally, and the other is plunged into ice water while it was still hot. ![]() There has been some discussion around this topic that claims the quenching process is just a wife’s tale.Today’s test will show whether or not that is actually the case and whether it makes a difference at all.I used to think (because people had told me), that plunging hot polymer clay into a bath of ice water would give it strength and improve clarity to with translucent clays.Quenching Polymer Clay right out of the oven… into ice water… is this something you should do… or not?.Video #640: I used Premo translucent polymer clay to test for strength and clarity… watch the video to see my results. ![]()
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