Cookie shooter to clay shooter conversion

[Bugbear]

Ya, they've made those from calking guns down at the ceramics studio; they can work out well.

Usually people use the table mounted extruder that holds about a leter of clay and has a leverage arm about three feet long. It doesn't have as many types of extrusion patterns, though. I have one of the little cake icing sized, thumb powered extruders, and they aren't too bad for small sculptures. They tend to have a whole bunch of patterns, like stars, that you can change out.

On the other hand, when I make dogs or cats etc, I usually comb in the hair with any number of knotched tools, but I'm only making greenware for people. It depends on how much detail they want to start with.

[Panache]

tyger,

An interesting project. I look forward to seeing what the artist thinks

However because this is not kilt related I have moved it to the "Off Topic" forum

Cheers

Jamie :ootd:

[tyger]

This rascal WORKS!

Here is the Tyger Forge caulk-gun-like cookie shooter conversion, compared to the commercial 'syringe' used to extrude clay strands or, in this case, dog 'hair.'


The conversion extrudes clay as effortlessly as one can imagine. No white fingers, trying to grip the tiny syringe, and force the plunger.


And the new dog gets his whiskers:



An absolute 100% success, and a very happy ceramic artist.

PS: She told me "Size matters." So, she must be happy with her new toy.