{"id":18768,"date":"2014-07-14T03:05:36","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T10:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=18768"},"modified":"2014-07-05T18:20:04","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T01:20:04","slug":"strength-test-sculpey-souffle-polymer-clay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/strength-test-sculpey-souffle-polymer-clay\/18768\/","title":{"rendered":"Strength Test Sculpey Souffle Polymer Clay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=18768#video\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/2014-07\/14-90546-sculpey-souffle-strength-tests.jpg\" alt=\"Sculpey Souffle Polymer Clay Strength Tests\" width=\"255\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Video #546:<\/span> Comparing four different Souffle Clay sample thicknesses, each baked at 30 minutes and at 60 minutes.<\/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;\">Testing the strength of the new Sculpey Souffle Polymer Clay when baked at 275F for 30 minutes (as recommended on packaging) vs. 275F for 60 minutes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">We have done testlabs before on baking Premo polymer clay for 60 minutes instead of the recommended 30 minutes, and Premo does benefit from the longer baking time.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Test samples were rolled at 4 thickness&#8217; (8 playing cards, 4 cards, 2 cards and less than 1 card thick&#8230; plus some skinny strings).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">2 sets of identical samples were baked at 275F (130 C), one batch for 30 minutes and one batch 60 minutes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Each test strip was bent until it broke.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">30 minute samples were very flexible but broke easily when bent back.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">60 minute samples were harder to break, but still breakable. About twice as strong as the 30 minute samples.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In future tests, I will do try higher temperatures and longer times in an effort to indentify optimal baking conditions.<a name=\"video\"><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DsW1oE_MtqU?rel=0\" width=\"575\" height=\"323\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Related Video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=18755#video\">Sculpey Souffle Polymer Clay Review<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Related Video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=18663#video\">Overview of New 2014 Sculpey &amp; Premo Products<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Related Video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=18491#video\">Sculpey Bake &amp; Bend Oven Bake Polymer Clay<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Related Video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=18352#video\">Should Polymer Clay Still Bend After It&#8217;s Been Baked<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Related Video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=18350#video\">Essential Polymer Clay Tools &#8211; Oven Thermometer<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Related Video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=16502#video\">Ten Minutes NOT Long Enough to Bake Polymer Clay<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Do 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!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">My goal is to help you to learn 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=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DsW1oE_MtqU\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external external_icon\">Sculpey Souffle Polymer Clay Strength Tests<\/a><span style=\"color: #808080;\"> &#8230; 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\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/cindy-sig.jpg\" alt=\"Cindy Lietz Signature\" width=\"114\" height=\"99\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/polymer-clay-tutor.jpg\" alt=\"Polymer Clay Tutor\" width=\"200\" height=\"26\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video #546: Comparing four different Souffle Clay sample thicknesses, each baked at 30 minutes and at 60 minutes.<\/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":[2633,2740],"class_list":["post-18768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pct-test-lab","tag-baking-polymer-clay","tag-polymer-clay-tools-supplies-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18768","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=18768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}