[Woodcarver] Carving Clay?

[Donna Menke]

Ditto to what Mush said- and if you look at both the Bluebird and Bocephus blogs 
you will see how I used the clay manquette to make the patterns to cut out the 
blanks for the projects.

Every time I don't make a manquette I wish I had. Whenever I do that step I'm 
happy I did.
I like to use good Italian clay- quite expensive- for the detail it takes and 
how much body it has; but plain old clay is good, and Sculpey too, they are just 
kinda soft.
Donna Menke
http://www.woodworks-by-donna.com 
Author: The Ultimate Band Saw Box Book
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From: Marcia Berkall <whitwood at fairpoint.net>
To: [Woodcarver] <woodcarver at carverscompanion.com>
Sent: Tue, November 30, 2010 5:01:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Woodcarver] Carving Clay?

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Hi, Bill,

I do a lot of clay modeling to "figure out" a carving and I have my students do 
the same.  As a matter of fact, I just ordered some plain old gray clay from 
Dick Blick and sets of 3 birch clay tools for Christmas gifts for my students.  


I don't use my carving tools with clay.  You can use popsicle sticks if you 
don't have actual clay tools.  The clay model doesn't have to  be detailed at 
all.

I have some carvings on my blog that show the progression from sketch to clay 
model to carving.  The clay models are very simple, but help me to understand 
what goes where :)

Good luck..they'll have fun!

Marcia (aka Mush)
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>This is my first post to this List, so bear with me. 

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>I have been wondering if it might be a good idea to have my students (Boy Scouts 

>working on the Woodcarving Merit Badge) try to "carve" their object in clay 

>before trying it in wood. The idea is that if you can't carve it in clay, your 

>sure are not going to do it in wood. Of course, you wouldn't get the fine 

>detail, but at this level, just getting something that is recognizable is an 

>achievement. 

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>Does any one do modeling in clay before hitting the expensive and unforgiving 

>wood? It wouldn't hurt the tools, would it?

> 

>. . . Bill in Santa Fe

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