{"id":16765,"date":"2013-03-11T03:05:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T10:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=16765"},"modified":"2016-11-25T18:30:13","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T02:30:13","slug":"reviving-old-cracked-polymer-clay-canes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/reviving-old-cracked-polymer-clay-canes\/16765\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviving Old And Cracked Polymer Clay Canes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=16765#video\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" alt=\"Reviving Old Polymer Canes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/2013-03\/11-90359-pt0-reviving-old-canes.jpg\" width=\"255\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Video #359:<\/span> Testing several different clay softening products on brittle polymer canes.<\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080; font-size: large;\"><strong>Topics Covered In This Video:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Sections of an old and cracked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/dandelion-ghost-cane-polymer-clay-tutorial-video\/13842\/\">Dandelion Fluff Cane<\/a> were cut into sections and <em>treated<\/em> with several different products in an attempt to re-introduce oils and plasticizers back into the clay.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Cane sections were coated with the following products, and then wrapped with a sealing layer of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/how-to-store-polymer-clay-canes\/74\/\">Glad Cling Wrap<\/a> so they could <em>soak<\/em> for 5 days.<br \/>\n&#8211; Sculpey Clay Softener<br \/>\n&#8211; TLS (Translucent Liquid Sculpey)<br \/>\n&#8211; Kato Liquid Polyclay<br \/>\n&#8211; Fimo Mix Quick<br \/>\n&#8211; Sculpey Mold Maker (Super Elasticlay)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Two additional samples were <em>treated<\/em> by warming them at low temperature for 5 minutes:<br \/>\n&#8211; One sat in hot tap water<br \/>\n&#8211; The other sat in oven set at under 150F<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I then attempted to reduce all of the above<em> <\/em>samples to see if the treatments were effective for reviving the old canes.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The results were varied&#8230; the best being the warming of the clay using water or the oven, next successful was the TLS, then the Fimo Mix Quick. The other results were poor at best.<a name=\"video\"><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qDBIuZrSXCQ?rel=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: large; color: #808080;\">Question of the Day:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Would you bother trying to do any of these different things to revive your old canes? Or would you just skip it and use the old canes for scrap clay?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I look forward to hearing from you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">By the way, if you have a polymer clay question or challenge you&#8217;d like me to address in an upcoming video vlog, do post it in the comments below. I&#8217;d love to help you find quicker and easier ways to bring up the professionalism in your polymer clay art.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808080;\">Oh and don&#8217;t forget to give these videos a<em> Thumbs Up<\/em> click at YouTube if you are enjoying them. The more <em>Likes<\/em> a video gets, the higher it rises in the searches. And that means even more people will be able to join in on this polymer clay journey of a lifetime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Also, by subscribing to our YouTube Channel directly, you will receive notifications as soon as new videos are uploaded. To subscribe, click here&#8230;<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/qDBIuZrSXCQ\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external external_icon\">How To Revive Old Canes<\/a><span style=\"color: #808080;\">. The Subscribe Button is right near the top of that YouTube page.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Looking forward to hearing from you!<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 575px;\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 200px;\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cindy Lietz Signature\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/cindy-sig.jpg\" width=\"114\" height=\"99\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Polymer Clay Tutor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/polymer-clay-tutor.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"26\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video #359: Testing several different clay softening products on brittle polymer canes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2536],"tags":[2883,2682,2726,1797,2652],"class_list":["post-16765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pct-test-lab","tag-gladproducts","tag-cane-management","tag-conditioning-polymer-clay","tag-cracked-beads-breakage","tag-plastic-wrap-glad-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}