|
How-To page on covering tins |
Razma asked for some links on
covering tins. I gathered up a couple and made this "How-To" page. Other TINS
pages are examples of tins after they were done for teaching on CITY-o-Clay.
2013: Review of Tins |
|
|
The trick to covering a
tin is to take the sheet you're going to use, put it face down on the work table, use the tin and roll it around on the BACK of the sheet. Where the tin makes a mark will be where you need to cut the sheet. After trimming where the tin made marks slap it on the tin. Remember that the top of the tin over laps the bottom. So you're not going to cover the bottom part all the way up to the edge. If you do you won't be able to close the tin, that clay will be in the way. So you're cutting the bottom sheet a bit shorter than the edge of the tin, how ever much the top part overlaps. The only "fiddling" you have to do is where the hinges are on the tin, I cut out a small rectangle around the hinge area. I don't do anything to prepare the tin other than dust it off if it's been hanging around in my "stuff box". When laying the sheet on the tin, do it like applying wall paper or putting an adhesive shelf liner in the cupboard. Do it from one end and as you lay the sheet on the tin you make sure you're not capturing air bubbles. The air that you trap underneath will expand in the oven and make a big bump.
|
||
|
Rumble in the
Jungle: How the Tin is Covered
This tutorial shows how I pinch the excess clay off of the corners and slice it off. Pretty brutal but there's no measuring necessary.
|
||
|
Home
Monthly Highlights Since 8/2003 |
The official Clay Suppler for |
ComboTutes:
New and old stuff
First Three Years - Biz-Archive NJ Archive 1997-1999 |
