{"id":59,"date":"2008-04-16T15:52:49","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T22:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/baking-beads-break-the-rules\/59\/"},"modified":"2012-01-05T08:22:16","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T16:22:16","slug":"baking-beads-break-the-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/baking-beads-break-the-rules\/59\/","title":{"rendered":"When Baking Beads, It&#8217;s OK to Sometimes Break Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/2008-04\/16-round-bead.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Round Bead\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"250\" height=\"224\" align=\"left\" \/><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">How Long Do You Bake Your Beads? How&#8217;s that Working For You?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Rules are sometimes meant to be broken. And when it comes to baking polymer clay beads, this is no exception!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I have been reading about polymer clay artists that<\/span><!--more--><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> bake their polymer clay beads for twice as long as it says on the package. They say this makes<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> a much stronger bead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Being kind of impatient, I had never really given this idea a try. I just baked the beads for as long as the manufacturer suggested, and then took them out when<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> they were done.<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: medium;\">But I&#8217;ve been<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> having a few problems with some of my beads breaking and cracking. So I thought I would give the extended bake time a try. And guess what? It works!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Instead of baking my polymer clay beads for the recommended 30 minutes, I baked them for 1 hour. Please note that it is very important to still bake your beads at the right temperature for the clay, or it will burn. So don&#8217;t break that rule!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">My polymer clay beads came out rock hard. You could tell they were harder even on the round beads. And because they were harder, they sanded easier and buffed to a much smoother finish!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Holy cow!!! Why did I wait so long to try this? Sometimes it doesn&#8217;t pay to be impatient.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Long Do You Bake Your Beads? How&#8217;s that Working For You? Rules are sometimes meant to be broken. And when it comes&#8230;&nbsp;<span class=\"cmtcnt\">93<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[2633,332],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finishing","tag-baking-polymer-clay","tag-polymer-clay-artists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","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=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}