Hello To Our Newest Members! This board has been underway since late 2005 and we've accumulated over 400 messages. There isn't a lot of activity on the board,...
so here I am reading my Clay Times, 10 pm on a Saturday night....... I know can life get any more exciting? On page 63 there is little hand held extruder from...
Yes, I do have plans.... You can easily adapt a caulking gun to be a hand-held extruder. See "The Extruder Book" - Fred Sweet contributed the step-by-step...
Haha! I just knew it! and many thanx to you and Fred Sweet! hunting and gathering for the week here in Ohio..... all the best and happy picking, Sandy...
yesterday at an auction....where else.....that's where Bubba likes to go. I got 2 boxes of stuff for $2.I bought one box for a cookie press in one. It is...
I had an old metal cookie gun that looked like a caulking gun, and wasn't using it for cookies so I tried it with clay. I found you needed to use super soft...
Hi all! I'm Beth, and I am now officially an extrudist (extruderer?) lol I recently bought myself a Bailey extruder - it's the one with the ~4x6" tile barrel....
Hi Beth, I am a lurker too, and without an extruder, tho I have the DVDs on how to do it. What did you use to make your dies? Acryllic? How did you cut them?...
Hi Nancy, The material you might use for your dies depends, in part, on the tools you have and are comfortable using. Wood and some plastic like materials can...
In his extruder workshops, Bill Shinn recommends baltic birch plywood, 1/2 inch thick, 9 to 11 ply, for making dies. Its easy to cut into intricate and...
Hi Belinda, Plywood is "Ply" wood - get it? If you want some 1/2" thick plywood, all you need to do is glue two pieces of 1/4" plywood together. All they do at...
David is correct. Take any old 1/2 inch 5 or 7 ply plywood (outdoor use like CDX or marine is better) and glue on a thin veneer to make it "good sided". Done....
Bailey is the one who uses Baltic birch for their expansion box extruder dies, and that's what they recommend. Bill Shinn demonstrates for Bailey at NCECA, so...
Hey Nancy, I got a bunch of baltic birch blanks when I ordered the extruder. First I used my drill to make some holes, then I used a small coping saw to saw...
Bonnie is right about using a variety of materials for dies. After a while you get a feeling for what will work best. Of course, you can simply use thick or...
Hi Beth, Have you viewed the Extrude It! DVDs by David Hendley? They are a "must see"! I rented them from SmartFlix. I've got a few questions that I...
My brother-in-law is a custom cabinet builder. A lady comes by monthly and picks up all of his birch scraps (big pieces when making a die) and he thinks it's...
I just ordered some 9 ply birch plywood on ebay. They have a few people selling it over there. Regards, June Perry BLOG: http://shambhalapottery.blogspot.com/ ...
I can buy 9-ply birch plywood at my local lumber yard. They have some in stock most of the time. Otherwise they can order it and have it within a couple of...
Greetings, All. This is my first post to clayextruding. My name is Lisa. I am a student of Fred Sweet, in the Dallas area. (Hi, Fred!!) I was given a Big Blue...
... I love my Big Blue I have had it for several years already and mounted it in one place then moved it to another with no problem. I first mounted a piece...
Most extruders are wall mounted, but there's no reason any extruder can't be mounted on a stand. The main difficulty with stand-mounting is that the stand has...
We decided to make bud vases for the tables at my daughters wedding in a few weeks so out came the extruder and a triangular vase with grooved sides was...
Hello Lisa, I have posted several pictures of the stand that I built for the Fort Sask. Guild here in Canada, see photo Album for Fort Sask Guild. The stand...
Hello All, I am new here. I have been experimenting with extruding for about three years. I did some ceramics in college (35 years ago) and then four years ago...
Welcome to the group! I too have a new 'old' Bailey extruder. I plan on making my own dies. I have a scroll saw and router. I will let you know how it goes!...
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