The Essential Ceramic Sculpture Tools Guide
For Clay Modeling
Ceramic sculpture tools are made much easier to use with this essential online guide. Buy my recommended starter set here. Read on below for the tools tutorial.
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A Guide To Clay Modeling Tools
Here are the tools in my basic tool set explained one by one. Any questions just go to the FAQ ceramic sculpting page.
Basic Applicator Tool
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(sold only as part of the starter set)Name: Basic Applicator Tool Size: 7.25 inches Materials: Hardwood. Uses: This is a superb basic applicator and will be your most used tool in the early stages of a sculpt. The pointed end cuts and contours while roughing out. The plain end has several uses: as an applicator in (especially good in difficult corners, also as a cutter and groover and for accurate shaping. Usage frequency: both ends very handy Care: Rub with linseed oil before use and regularly.
Small Cutter
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(sold only as part of the starter set)Name: Small Cutter Size: 5.5 inches Materials: Stainless steel. Uses: This clay modeling tool is for shaping and scraping fine detail especially delicate facial detail and flesh contours. Usage frequency: round end: often, square end: occasionally crucial. Care: Rub with linseed oil before use and regularly.
Large Ribbon Cutter
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(sold only as part of the starter set)Name:Large Ribbon Cutter Size: 7 inches Materials: Stainless steel. Uses: There are many shapes and sizes of ribbon tool around ('ribbon' meaning flat cutting edge - this is NOT a wire tool). The only two ends I have ever used for figure modeling are these two - so I combined them into one tool - one angled, one curved. They take away medium sized slices of clay. Usage frequency: both ends very handy Care: Rub with linseed oil before use and regularly.
Scraper Tool
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(sold only as part of the starter set)Name: Scraper Tool Size: 7 inches Materials: Hardwood. Uses: The pointed end is an essential potter's needle - for cutting, trimming, shaping and making small indents. The scraper end of this clay modeling tool is a clay remover and shaper smoother. The serrated edges give a unique ability to make smooth contours and planes that a non-serrated edge could not. Can be used on concave planes, unlike the basic tool above. Usage frequency: Scraper end - quite often. The pointed end is a sharpened point ideal for squaring off and cutting, especially on the edges of a sculpt. Care: Rub with linseed oil before use and regularly.
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