[KwartzLab] Clay, wax, etc

[Agnes Niewiadomski]

If you're looking for the wax stuff to make the seals KW surplus carries it
in a few different colours found in the craft/scrapbooking aisle. I was
there last week and they had tons. They look like mini hot glue sticks and
are meant to be used with a hot glue gun to melt the wax. They also sell
some impression stamps but they are kind of cheesy.

My suggestion if you are carving it by hand as a subtractive process, try
linoluem (it used by printmakers for block printing and can be found at
Curry's Art Supply). They'll sell the carving tools to go along with it.


Agnes Niewiadomski




On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Jeff Schmidt <digitalfalcon at rogers.com>wrote:

> You could try ShapeLock.  It is easy to mold and machine, though it has a
> pretty low melting temperature (130F).
>
> - Jeff
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> *From:* Michael Dunn <md at cantares.on.ca>
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>   I'm starting to mess around with intaglio seals & such, for pressing
> into sealing wax for example.
>
>   Any other good materials you can think of? There's "Sculpey" "clay", and
> maybe 1 or 2 clones of it (like Plasticine, but can be baked to harden).
> There's that newish siliconey putty, whose name escapes me (oobleck?)...
>
>
> md
>
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