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Summary: A clay extruder is a device that is used to make long symmetrical pieces of clay for handles and other tubular designs. Learn a bit about hollow extruder dies from a clay pottery expert in this free video clip.
Emily Owen was born and raised in Austin, Texas. Owen earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and a bachelor's of Science from the University of Texas in Austin with a total of 180 hours...read more
"So doing this project does require a specialty type of extruder dye. The dye is what goes in the base of the extruder and the clay gets pushed through it, and that's what creates your uniform long piece of clay. Now, these extruder dyes are created so that the clay will be pushed through and the hollow space, the empty space that you see there, will be the shape of the clay that's extruded. So I'll have a hollow tube in the shape of a hexagon, a circle, or a square, whatever I want to use. I think for this project I'm going to use the hexagon, I think that sounds kind of fun. So you take the little interpiece, and you put it on the base. This piece comes with these dykes, it's part of the kit. Attach that with the bolt, and then you take the base piece, you set it inside the holder, and then this sets on top of that piece. Now it is important that you make sure that the two pieces are lined up properly. So I'm going to take a moment and make sure that those are lined up before I hook it on the extruder."
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