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icewindandboringhorror · 4 months ago

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The wax seals you made are amazing!! I want to try this so bad!

Can I ask what kind of clay you used and how you got the wax not to stick to it? 💗🙏🏻🙏🏻

Thank you! I just used the normal sculpey clay (the type you have to bake for it to harden up) that I had on hand, though there may be something actually better for it (probably clay is not the ideal material for wax seals anyway lol). To make the wax not stick, I took a small paintbrush and dabbed a thin layer of olive oil onto the seal (making sure to get into all the crevices of detail) every time before I pressed it into wax. I'm not sure how sustainable this is long term (if the oil on the clay would eventually degrade it or make it soft again or etc), but it seemingly works for just using them once or twice.

#which I think sculpey is a polymer clay?? so maybe any other polymer clay would be fine too #I am not the expert on anything so.. This is just how I personally made mine lol #also I don't sculpt an entire seal thing with a handle and all. I just make the little circles like the seal itself #and try and keep it pretty flat and evenly shaped like a metal one would be. then I hot glued the flat clay circles onto a short piece of a #thick wooden dowel so that I have something to actually hold them properly with and make a sealing sort of motion on #the wax. you could probably glue them onto anything similarly shaped like a handle that's the right size #replies

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