I finally have a bead rack. I built my own! I put it together with some wire that I had previously bought from the floral department at a craft store, and a tin/aluminum? pan at the grocery store. I cut notches in the top of the pan, to rest the wire on. The package of the stiff floral wire was in long lengths of about 19". I cut four, six inch pieces. The wire is 18ga so it should work nicely. I think this bead rack will surpass my previous method of baking beads on a mound of poly-fill. That was a little tricky finding space and balancing pieces. Plus, after baking beads, pulling the pieces of poly-fill off the clay was tedious. And the last beads I made had indentations left in them from the poly-fill, :(. I do like the bead racks in they sell in the stores specifically made for baking polymer clay beads, but in an effort to conserve cash, I made my own. :)
Lisa, that is good thinking! The Polymer Clay Tutor has a very cool free video about a bead tray "helper":
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Thanks! I will check that out. I had to cut the bottom off to make mine fit in the craft oven better! :)
ReplyDeleteMonique! I watched the video, I can't believe she uploaded that just three days ago! How timely.. :) The Sugru looks great. I was thinking that I might make pc balls to glue on the ends of my wire "pins", but looks like Sugru would be a better solution.
ReplyDeleteI thought I was being original with the use of the word, "hack" about the bead rack...hahaha.
thanks for sharing that info with me. :)
I love serendipity, Lisa. I believe really good ideas tend to leak into our collective consciousness LOL.
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