Stonex Self-Hardening Clay, 5 Pounds

My son (high school) used this for a class project. He made a flower 'candle' about 8 inches in diameter and 1/8 in thick with 1/2 high lips on each of the 10 'petals'. He only needed about 1/4 of the box. It took 2 days to fully dry and he had to turn the 'flower' over a few times. Then he varnished it with spray varnish, let that dry overnight, and then spray painted red. Then he poured melted wax in the petals to make 10 connected 'candles'. The clay worked well for this project and was plenty sturdy enough. He present the 'candle' on a wood base but it wasn't particularly fragile after being varnished and painted. Nice part was that he did not need to heat the clay to 'set' it. Just let it dry for 2 days.

I wasn't sure this was going to work for the kids in our arts based vacation bible school. We used the clay to make oil lamps in the style of ancient Israel. They clay feels and works like a regular clay, you can add water, roll it, pinch it, smooth it out, but it air drys into a very sturdy clay body (it took two days to dry completely). I dropped mine on concrete on purpose several times and it didn't crack. Also, when we put oil in it to burn, the oil didn't seep through the clay, much to my surprise, which it would have done with regular low fired clay! Pretty amazing stuff, I recommend it highly. The kids loved this project. One box was more than enough to make a dozen small lamps.

I used this as ballast for the bottom of two lamps, one a table reading lamp, and a floor lamp. The inner base plaster on both had cracked and crumbled apart. Even expensive lamps these days have plaster instead of the heavy iron insert they used to have. With age, or if you knock them over, the plaster falls apart like sand and you have a lamp that cannot stand. Not wanting to throw away very nice lamps, I tried this clay. A YouTube video suggested using quikcrete cement, but then you have to pour it over the lamp cord. This clay is moldable so you can keep a channel for the cord. I smoothed it flat with a metal ruler, which was easy to clean while the clay was wet. This clay does shrink some from the lamp base sides (the box warns you that it will do that), but fortunately stuck to the top of both lamp bases. I filled in the edge cracks where it had shrunk with a glue gun and used that glue to re-attach the paper-and-felt bottom as well. Both lamps are perfect again.

I was worried about this because of the “crumbly” reviews, but it’s been great so far. We wanted to make a flower pot for our wedding, and do it ourselves, and it worked beautifully. There was a minor crack in the inside, but it didn’t go all the way through, and we’re going to waterproof it anyway, so I think we can seal that. The bottom was thicker than the sides eventually, so I think if we’d been able to keep it completely even, it might’ve been better, but it worked well. I definitely wouldn’t want to make it too thin, ours was probably an inch thick. Happy creating!

Made a mold for a wolf print. Real one made out plaster Paris. It's the brown pic in the new mold holder made out coffee card board can 2 inchs tall Had to water the new clay down to get the old mold pushed in. Removed it and used spoons and other thing's to get the detail better as the old print had no definition. Clay all over me clothes hands. Get a small pail and water and towel. Paper towels. After I cut off what I needed I used saran wrap. And last old bread bag tied and cut off so it won't dry out. Probably be many days drying by heater duct. Funny couldn't load second pic of my new mold. Will edit it put the second pic in of my mold. Still can't get the second pic to load even under edit

Great practice clay for leaning how to use a pottery wheel it's affordable and isn't hard to work with. However the amount of water you use when throwing should be limited. If you don't you'll lose more then you will gain and the clay will turn into mush and then you'll be stuck waiting a day for it to dry before you can continue using the clay and the more you have to repeat that process the less clay you'll have left. I'm sure this goes for most clays but with this particular brand it was a bigger struggle. Airdry isn't known to be the best for pottery wheels either, but it gets a person started and you won't need a kilm. People will tell you, you can't use this clay for pottery wheels you CAN. But you just can't!!! eat or drink form it. and you have to make things for storage more then anything else. But you should be fine. I do prefer other brands but for what this is attempting to achieve it isn't bad. There's a lot of mention of cracking (kneed it look up kneading clay) that's why it's cracking.

I had not used this type of air dry clay before, and at first found it hard and dry to work with. Stick with it. The clay formed easily and took imprinting easily with sharp clear images. The dried weight was substantial yet still light. Very satisfied using it as the main structure medium.

I ordered this twice, and twice I had to return because the plastic bag was open and the clay was hard. My daughter had ordered this, and her clay was perfect and ready to use.

Excelente

Si modella facilmente ed si asciuga in circa 24 h, resistente e non fa crepe

Excellent stuff

Easy to use and keep soft or quick dry of needed

Love this product great for my projects and you get so much clay out of it! Would definitely recommend