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Using Nail Polish as a Polymer Clay Glaze ![]() For more info on covering clay and preventing browning, see my class on Baking Polymer Clay. Then cover your pieces to prevent the oven’s element from toasting your polymer clay project. To prevent this, first make sure that your oven truly is baking at the correct temperature. Light colored or translucent polymer clay will commonly discolor and darken during baking. But when others follow this temperature advice, they end up with fragile, brittle, underbaked clay. What they think is 215☏ might actually be 275☏ in their oven. Will this work? Well, it might work for a specific person because they’re compensating for an incorrect oven. It’s common to read recommendations in forums to set your oven to, for instance, 215☏ (100☌) and bake for an hour or so. Many people assume that baking longer times at lower temperature settings will solve this problem. If you have burned polymer clay, you need to address your oven, not your baking times. If your project is close to the element, your thermometer could be reading the correct temperature but your project could still bubble and blacken. When the oven’s heating element cycles on and off, the heat radiating from it can be tremendous. (Fimo is a bit more sensitive.) If your project actually turns black and bubbles, then your oven is way too hot! As already state, ovens can be wildly inaccurate. Polymer clay does not burn unless it reaches temperatures near 350☏ (176☌). Want to learn more? Here’s my class on baking polymer clay that gives more info about choosing an oven, baking temperatures, and knowing if you’ve baked your clay long enough. Lighter colors may, however, discolor, so it is always better to do multiple bakings of thinner layers. If your oven is truly baking at the correct temperature, your clay will not burn. This means that a 1″ thick bead will need to be baked for two hours. ![]() Polymer clay should be baked for at least 30 minutes for each 1/4″ of thickness. I’ve been quite surprised to see that my oven’s dial is often off by 40☏ or more. I use two digital probe thermometers to verify exactly what temperature my oven is during baking. It’s therefore best to bake quite a bit longer than the label suggests to make up for this. (I like this inexpensive digital probe thermometer, but there are many others.) In the real world, even accurate ovens fluctuate during the baking cycle (and when you open the door). Most ovens are inaccurate and it’s important to use a separate oven thermometer to know what temperature your oven actually is. But you really do need to bake at a sufficient temperature for at least as long as the time stated on the package. The temperature on the package is a guideline, and you do have some leeway. ![]() To properly bake polymer clay, you must consider both time and temperature. Underbaked polymer clay can also have excess free plasticizer that can lead to cure inhibition in paints and glues, causing them to remain soft and/or sticky. Underbaked clay is not only less flexible, it is susceptible to breaking and crumbling. If polymer clay is underbaked, the fusion will not be complete and the resulting clay mass will be weak. Optimally, the particles will eventually fully fuse together and form a solid mass of plastic. As the temperature increases during curing, the powdered PVC softens in the plasticizer and the particles begin to absorb the plasticizer. Polymer clay is made from PVC powder, plasticizers, binders and fillers, lubricant, and pigments. Of course to have this kind of durability the clay must be properly baked, which leads us to the next point. The stronger brands of polymer clay are durable enough that you cannot break them with your hands, even when used as thin as 1/16″ (1.5 mm). Here’s more about choosing the best brand of polymer clay for your project. These weaker brands do have their uses, however, so save them for other projects. Sculpey III, Original Sculpey, Super Sculpey, and Bake Shop are all quite brittle after baking and should not be used, unsupported, in any area thinner than 1/4″ (6mm). ![]() For making things that are thin or have areas that are thinner than 1/4″ (6mm), make sure that you’re using a strong clay such as Premo, Fimo, Pardo, Kato, Cernit, or Souffle. Not all polymer clay brands are created equal and each has its uses and purposes. It’s even more horrifying to realize that you’ve sold something that is made from weak clay and won’t be durable. 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(The mini-challenge wins this season have seemed especially random Of Bianca, I thought Adore really slayed Ben with his The challenge for his manic, mega-chompered version All of the queens did well here, except for Courtney, who The mini-challenge was the by-now-familiar We were down to the Final 5: Adore Delano, Ben DeLaCreme, Bianca Del Rio, Courtney Act, and Darienne Lake. ![]() I consider this one of the more shocking eliminations in I should clarify thatĤ/5 of the episode was fairly predictable - the Adore redemption arc wasīlatantly telegraphed, as was Darienne tanking theĬhallenge - but the identity of the Bottom 2 and the eliminated queen really Absolutely shocked by the events of tonight’s episode. ![]() I-94 is not marked with this legislative number along the actual highway. Legally, the Minnesota section of I-94 is defined as unmarked Legislative Route 392 in the Minnesota Statutes § 161.12(4). 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They tend to be charismatic and charming, but they will use their exceptional social skills in a self-centered and manipulative manner.Ĭompulsive liars are defined as someone who continually lies from sheer habit. Sociopaths don’t have a lot of respect or regard for the feelings and rights of others. These individuals are goal-oriented.Įven though it might seem hard to believe, lying is focused – they are focused on getting their own way. Sociopaths are defined as someone who lies continuously in an attempt to get their own way, without showing care or concern for others. Interestingly, there are a number of different types of liars. Not only does it hurt the one who is being lied to, but it also hurts the one lying. ![]() On the plus side for Audirvana, the DAC support and exclusive stream is rock solid and provides the most detailed information about the connection of any of the OS X claims (in fact, Damien Plisson's own claim) about Audirvana sweetening the sound is absolutely accurate. Swinsian will semi-automatically fetch you album art itself from Last.fm, MusicBrainz, and a couple of other servers automatically. It's easy to view and easy to update files whether you add new metadata or artwork externally or internally. Playlist interfaces are lightning fast, technically detailed as you'd like with a native Mac look. In contrast, Swinsian offers splendid, Mac-native playlist functionality. Outside of cost, I didn't like the playlist functionality (auto-updates to my folders didn't work, filtering a library is an way to interact with music). Audirvana is also only two activations (hate this, I have three Macs I use often and another two I use occasionally). 5 version update! Audirvana is on v3.5 which makes about €310 laid out for buyers who started with v1. ![]() Personally, I decided that I didn't like the price and the constant paid updates (competitors do not do this Swinsian was a single €21 purchase, Calibra a single €8 purchase, Decibel a single $33 purchase, Fidelia a single $39 purchase. But whatever the Audirvana is (and likes the special sauce in this case, albeit he usually wants bit perfect), it's not bit perfect.īTW, I'm not an Audirvana owner or a fan, just own most of the competitors and have trialed intensively several versions of Audirvana. There's also a tiny boost in a key treble range (my guess is around 8kHz or 10kHz), giving "more detail" or resolution to the Audirvana sound. What's special about the Audirvana sound is slightly greater stereo separation, creating a "wider" soundstage and more air/atmosphere. Audirvana sounds different, arguably "better". They are all bit perfect in standard configuration and hence identical. I haven't tested Bitperfect only because I never use iTunes but from reports it falls into the same group. Swinsian, Calibri, Decibel, Fidelia all sound identical on music which they can play back at native resolution (Decibel doesn't handle all bitrates of DSD). In my opinion, he's been quite successful. ![]() Damien has chosen to offer "better" sound. To be able to differentiate from other players, Audirvana has to either add features which others don't have or Audirvana has to be cheaper or Audirvana has to offer "better" sound. Audirvana has been on the market for years. It's not that Plisson cannot provide bitperfect output – he can. 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