Extruder Basics PLUS How to Make Coiled Extruder Beads

Basics on using and cleaning a Makin's Ultimate Clay Extruder, PLUS a tutorial on how to make coiled extruder beads from polymer clay.

If you have questions, please check out my related blog post: http://blog.craftygoat.com/2008/06/video_extruder_basics_plus_mak.html

Since YouTube limits length and content of comments, I prefer you post any questions to my blog as well.

Video copyright 2008 Angela Mabray. This video is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license. This means you may not use or re-publish this video for commercial purposes. If you embed one of my videos on your site, I ask that you give full attribution along with a link back to either my blog or my YouTube profile page.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• polymerclay
• makins
• extruder
• coiled
• beads
• diy
• howto
• polymer
• clay
• arts
• crafts
• fimo
• sculpey

[19kaar85]

is it heavy to turn it? because i think it is probably suitable for fondant or marzipan.

[craftygoat]

What an interesting idea, 19kaar85. I've never used fondant or marzipan, so I don't know whether that would work or not. I can tell you the extruder works better for some polymer clay brands than for others (best if it's not too firm or too soft), so the consistency of a completely different material might be a problem. I would love to hear back from you if you try this.

[smallsab2]

Thank you for the video nice result but i didn't find the polymer clay in Egypt i don't know where i can find it ?? i asked about it but all i found is the normel air drying clay in 2 colors brown and white so i use the aclyric colors to give it a color but there's no varaity i made 2 necklaces so far but you have to make the beads then colour it so it's kind boring when you make something big so if you have something to help me with tell me and i'll be thankful thanks again and keep on

[craftygoat]

Sorry, but I don't know what stores might sell polymer clay in Egypt. Some popular brand names here include Fimo, Sculpey, Premo, Cernit, etc. You might try asking for those by name. Some of the online clay stores might ship to Egypt. Or you might try searching online for Egyptian polymer clay artists & contacting them about where they get their supplies. Good luck!

[alisontorresnj]

Thank you. What a good idea to sand the outer layer off to expose the inside colors.

[psychicadvisor]

great detail,steps,lighting, quaintly of everything was a must see, I bought the makins tools and love the how to clean part also the techniques on the mix of colors for the beads .. going to try it this week end will let u see how it turns out..

[Ianavak]

Excellent thanks. Gotta keep those extruders clean. Love that bead technique.

[thesilkyside]

thank you so much for sharing that information. helped so much for a newbie

[mamalicious23]

Great video- thanks!

[geminidawn2005]

Very cool!!! Thanks so much.

[lsokovich]

Thanks for sharing this info. I will try this. U R Good

[5onnenschein]

What a phantastic tutorial! Thank you soooo much! I'm gonna order that extruder so I was "googeling" for some information =) and found that! You're so lovely and I can understand you well, allthough I am German (with not the worst English, but some other user's accents are hard to handle)

Go on like that, U R great !!!