Friendly Plastic Challenge

By Praveen Edburg | Wednesday, October 22, 2008


There has been a friendly plastic challenge going on. AMACO/Brent, on account of their 90th birthday has organized the AMACO/Brent friendly plastic open challenge for craft and hobby association show 2009. The challenge is to make a friendly plastic project and win prizes for you and charity.

AMACO is an American Art Clay company and it supplies the equipments for pottery, education and crafts. There are various products of this company and to name a few would be the Arts and crafts materials, bead rollers, AMACO and excel kilns, ceramic clays, modeling clays, glazes and underglazes, brushes and tools, glass products and several others. 600 lead-free glazes, 11 talc-free moist clay bodies, 4 talc-free modeling clays and 23 UL Listed AMACO/Excel Kilns are manufactured by AMACO.. The Brent potter's wheel is manufactured by AMACO and is the world's best selling potter's wheel. AMACO holds a remarkable position in the field of safe engineering for ceramic products and equipment.

The products by which I was impressed were pottery glazes, pottery tile and polymer clay art.

It would be a really interesting and good time pass to work with polymer clay. Using polymer clay we can make many products that would decor our house. The polymer clay art involves making jewelry, home décor and wearable art projects with polymer clay and at the same time learning some of the latest design techniques from the best designers. This can be quite enjoyable. We can refer this site for improving our knowledge in polymer clay art as this site provides reference to polymer clay art project books like Bead Techniques: Clay Jewelry with Bead Rollers, Classy Clay, Stamp 'n Slice Clay . 

In pottery tile, good quality and white colored bisque tiles may be decorated with AMACO underglaze colors, crayons or pencils. Glazed tiles can be decorated with overglaze colors and the colors fuse permanently to glaze. The different available tiles include 6"X6" glazed, 4 1/2"X 4 1/2 " bisque and 6"X6" bisque tile.

And about the other product pottery glazes, about 500 glazes, underglazes and overglazes with varying firing ranges from cone 022 to cone 5 are manufactured by AMACO. Each glaze is having its own unique appearance with artistic look. All glazes currently in production are labeled to indicate their suitability for use for eatable products. General Glaze Information, Low Fire Glazes, High Fire Glazes, Glaze Accessories, Underglazes, Overglazes, Class Packs, Product Encyclopedia/Safety Information and Underglazes Firing Temperature/Color Variations Table are the glazes and underglazes product categories of AMACO.






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