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Question: What can I use to shape hardened clay!?
After I bake the sculpey clay and it's nice and hard and I wanna smooth it out or shape it or something, what's a good tool to use!? Will sand paper work!? I wanna use something that will shape the hardened clay and smooth it out hopefuly without leaving lines or scratches on it lol!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


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Sand paper will work for this!. It comes in various "grades" and you can get a fill-in on those from the people at almost any hardware store!. These "grades" concern the various textures of the sand paper and will be of maximum importance to you in the affects that you get!.

You might also look into a tool called the Dremel tool!. It is a small, super powerful little work horse that has all types of work wheels that attach to it for doing various jobs!.

Hope this helps
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Well, yes you can use sand-paper,!.!.!.In fact, you can take a piece of sandpaper, ( any grit you choose ) and roll it up very tight so that it isnt any wider than 3/8ths of an inch,!.!.!.!.!.!.!.I do this with a specifically when I use my drill and I'm trying to sand a very tiny area!. The idea is that you can make your drill into a fine sander at little cost!.!.!.!.!.!.!.the drill (mine anyway ) can be reveresed and so it's not a problem that you have to deal with in order to get the paper to roll around the way you want it to!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.Sculpey is cool!.!.!.!.I Imagine you could get alot of good artwork out of it!.!.!.!.!.!.Try the drill thing and see how it goes,!.!.if you need a bigger tool to work with, buy a Dremel Rotary Tool and you can get very precise with it, they have about 250 types of tools to use in it!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.send me some pictures of your work!.!.!.!.!.!.!.hope this helped!.Www@QuestionHome@Com