{"id":5413,"date":"2009-09-03T03:07:47","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T10:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=5413"},"modified":"2015-01-09T18:42:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T02:42:55","slug":"drilling-holes-polymer-clay-beads-jewelry-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/drilling-holes-polymer-clay-beads-jewelry-projects\/5413\/","title":{"rendered":"Drilling Holes in Polymer Clay Beads for Your Jewelry Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/2009-09\/03-polymer-clay-bead-holes-2009-05-03-128.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Polymer Clay Bead Holes\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&#8220;People laugh at me when I tell them one of my favorite tools is the drill press.&#8221; <span style=\"color: #808080;\">~Arlene-H<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">There are so many ways to put a hole in your polymer clay beads. And the nice thing is, they&#8217;re all easy to do!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> You can pierce your beads with a pin while the clay is still raw, such as the one in the photo above. Or you can drill through them after they are baked, using a dremel tool or a drill bit. Polymer clay is such a soft material to work with, that you won&#8217;t have any difficulty making holes in your beads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Several articles have already been written on how to drill holes in your polymer clay beads with tips and tricks for making it easy. The following is a list of those bead drilling articles for you to read and learn from:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/instructions-piercing-holes-unbaked-polymer-clay-beads\/1075\/\">Instructions For Piercing Holes Through Unbaked Polymer Clay<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/bead-holes-polymer-clay-jewelry-projects\/72\/\">Bead Hole Drilling for Polymer Clay Jewelry Projects<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/polymer-clay-beads-sizing-holes-bead-stringing\/3431\/\">Sizing Holes in Polymer Clay Beads for Bead Stringing Projects<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/piercing-beads-small-large-hole-beads\/63\/\">Piercing Beads with Small Pins vs Making Large Hole Beads<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/how-to-make-polymer-clay-beads-piercing-the-bead-hole\/123\/\">Tips on How to Make Polymer Clay Beads &#8211; Piercing Bead Holes<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">So which method do you prefer when making holes in your polymer clay beads? Do you usually pierce them while the clay is still raw? Or do you drill after they have been baked? Comment or ask your questions below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/cindy-sig.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Cindy Lietz Signature\" width=\"114\" height=\"99\" align=\"right\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/polymer-clay-tutor.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Polymer Clay Tutor\" width=\"200\" height=\"26\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;People laugh at me when I tell them one of my favorite tools is the drill press.&#8221; ~Arlene-H<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2662],"tags":[2590,2740],"class_list":["post-5413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pct-studio-tips","tag-holes","tag-polymer-clay-tools-supplies-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5413","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}