Channel Title: Cool Tools Videos Channel Description: We are full of videos on creating in metal clay, polymer clay, metalsmithing and enameling. We're here for you and your creative journey. If it's shown in our videos, we supply it through our website, cooltools.us Sign up for our emails: https://bit.ly/41cgrzk Sign up for our VIP Club: https://pscrpt.io/9abkCT <video> Cool Tools | Silver Metal Clay Spinning Ring by Karen Trexler Description: Click here for the products used in this video: https://cooltools.us/collections/silver-metal-clay-spinning-ring-by-karen-trexler In this video, Karen mixes Clay Tack with EZ960® Sterling Silver Clay to create an extra strong paste in order to make a kinetic ring. This project video demonstrates the construction of a ring that features a spinning focal point, and covers many tips and tricks on how to create mechanisms that allow an element to spin. Clay Tack is an additive that when mixed with clay to create a paste, creates extra strong connections that are less likely to break when the piece is manipulated or moved in the greenware state. This is particularly helpful for the construction of a piece that has moving parts like the ring featured in this project video. </video> <video> Cool Tools | Clay Tack | Create Strong Connections and Paste in Metal Clay Description: Click here for Clay Tack: https://cooltools.us/products/clay-tack-for-strong-connections-and-metal-clay-paste Clay Tack was developed by Patrice Baker of Silverfish Studios as an aid to creating connections in silver clay. Join wet to wet, wet to dry, dry to dry, fired to unfired, or add to lump clay to create your own metal clay paste. Clay Tack acts as a metal clay super glue and gives superior bonds, helping you with repairs and connecting pieces (whether these are dry or still in clay stage). No more mess or clean up! Create a clean join in seconds. Shake before use. Use sparingly on areas of connection. Press and hold for 20 seconds to adhere. </video> <video> Cool Tools | Creating Your Own Stamps using Photopolymer Plates with Pam East | Photopolymer Kit Description: Click here for the Pam East Photopolymer Kit: https://cooltools.us/products/pam-east-photopolymer-kit Creating your own stamps and textures is fun and easy with photopolymer! Kit Contents: UV Lamp 8” x 10” Unexposed PhotoPolymer Plate (PPP) - qty 1 Pam East Exposure Stack Nylon Brush Tooth Brush Sample Transparency Blank Transparency Sheets - qty 3 Kit instructions </video> <video> Cool Tools | How to Use the Rectifier™ by Clément Marquaire Description: Click here for The Rectifier: https://cooltools.us/products/the-rectifier-by-clement-marquaire Sand and refine your pieces perfectly every time! The Rectifier is magnetic, so when placed on a steel bench block it stays in place. Magnetize a flat file to the side and securely file edges perfectly flat. The Rectifier comes with a removable magnetic piece that also allows you to securely place a piece of sandpaper to sand edges perfectly flat. It doesn't stop there! This handy tool features a hole in the top, designed to place a mounted sandpaper cartridge roll and refine the inside of your ring or round object. </video> <video> Cool Tools | The Ring Maker by Clément Marquaire Description: Click here for The Ring Maker and all the other tools shown in this video: https://cooltools.us/collections/the-ring-maker-by-clement-marquaire In this video, Clément Marquaire shares his invention that truly makes creating seamless rings a breeze - The Ring Maker. If you find yourself frustrated by joining a ring, or finding the seam still visible or incomplete after firing, this tool is for you! Clément shows how easy it is to create a metal clay ring blank from The Ring Maker and how to precisely refine the blank to perfection. The Ring Maker is available in 6 shapes: Round, Octogon, Signet, Square, Stone and Triangle. Note: The video shows The Ring Maker with Aureus™ Bright Bronze Clay, but any metal clay can be used with this product. Clément visited Cool Tools from Belgium, and creates unique jewelry with designs inspired by Sacred geometry and Tibetan Mandala Art, through his brand Geometrically Stuck. He designs and produces metal clay tools through his brand CMMC Tools. </video> <video> Cool Tools | Mixing and Matching Templates by Cindy Pope Description: Click here for the products shown in this video: https://cooltools.us/collections/mixing-and-matching-templates-by-cindy-pope Learn how to mix and match templates and further open your creativity! In this video, Cindy creates earrings using Aureus Bright Bronze Clay. </video> <video> Enameling with Cool Hot Paints by Jan Harrell | Paintable Enamels Description: Click here for the products used in this video: https://cooltools.us/collections/enameling-with-cool-hot-paints-by-jan-harrell Learn from Jan Harrell how easy Cool Hot Paints are to use! Add vivid colors and designs with this palette of 16 lead free enamel paints. Load onto a wet paint brush and paint away on enameled pieces or enameling squares. Fire with a torch or kiln. Jan Harrell is an Enamelist, Metalsmith, Sculptor and Instructor at the Glassell School of Art in Houston, TX. </video> <video> Using Embossing Pens with Enameling by Jan Harrell | Sign your work with enamels Description: Click here for the products used in this video: https://cooltools.us/collections/using-embossing-pens-with-enameling-by-jan-harrell Sign your work or draw designs in enamel! In this video, Jan Harrell shows how to use Emboss It™ Embossing Pens to customize your enameling. Jan Harrell is an Enamelist, Metalsmith, Sculptor and Instructor at the Glassell School of Art in Houston, TX. </video> <video> Cool Tools | Setting Molds | Quick & Easy Metal Clay Stone Settings Description: Click here for all Stone Setting Molds: https://cooltools.us/collections/setting-molds Designed by Karen Trexler, Cool Tools Setting Molds are silicone molds designed to create perfect settings for faceted stones. Each mold is designed for one faceted stone shape, and will allow users to create two different styles of settings for three sizes of stones in that shape. Simply press clay into the low areas of the molds and scrape away extra clay to make perfect bezel or prong style settings for stones. If you are creating a prong style setting, in addition to the edges of these molds having embellished sides that allude to a prong setting, the mold is designed to produce four elements to be placed on top of the setting and slightly over the stone, to give the look of a prong bent over the stone. No release agent is needed with these molds. </video> <video> Cool Tools | Pam East's Favorite Brushes for Metal Clay & Enameling | Silverwhite® & Golden Natural® Description: Click here for Pam East's Favorite Brushes: https://cooltools.us/collections/pam-easts-favorite-brushes Step up your metal clay and enameling work with Pam East's favorite brushes! These brushes have been tested, tried and true by Pam East. Choose from the Silverwhite® line for metal clay and the Golden Natural® line for enameling. </video> <video> Cool Tools | Creating Your Own Enameling Decals for 3D Forms by Jan Harrell Description: Click here for all the products used in this video: https://cooltools.us/collections/creating-your-own-enameling-decals-for-3d-forms-by-jan-harrell Turn every enamel color you love into a decal! In this video, Jan Harrell shows how to create your own enameling decals. She shows how to silk screen onto decal paper two different ways: mixing acrylic medium and mica powder and by sifting enamel on top of acrylic medium. After the decals are created, she shows how to apply them to volumetric forms. </video> <video> Cool Tools | Intro to Setting Molds by Karen Trexler | Create Perfect Stone Settings in Metal Clay Description: Click here for all the products used in this video: https://cooltools.us/collections/intro-to-setting-molds-by-karen-trexler Learn how to use Setting Molds to create perfect settings in metal clay. Karen embellishes her setting with a leaf and organic bail. Karen creates an oval setting, but these molds are also available in square and round. Designed by Karen Trexler, Cool Tools Setting Molds are silicone molds designed to create perfect settings for faceted stones. Each mold is designed for one faceted stone shape, and will allow users to create two different styles of settings for three sizes of stones in that shape. Simply press clay into the low areas of the molds and scrape away extra clay to make perfect bezel or prong style settings for stones. If you are creating a prong style setting, in addition to the edges of these molds having embellished sides that allude to a prong setting, the mold is designed to produce four elements to be placed on top of the setting and slightly over the stone, to give the look of a prong bent over the stone. No release agent is needed with these molds. </video> <video> Cool Tools | Mandala Earrings with Non-Fireable Stones by Rebecca Connell Description: Click here for the products used in this video: https://cooltools.us/collections/mandala-earrings-with-non-fireable-stones-by-rebecca-connell In this video, Rebecca Connell shares how to create mandala earrings from EZ960 Sterling Silver Clay and the Eastern Elements Texture. After firing, she sets a non-fireable stone into a premade fine silver bezel cup. This project also shows how to polish your piece after firing for a matte finish, accented with Black Max. </video> <video> Cool Tools | Masked Stamp Keum-Boo Pendant by Pam East | Silver Metal Clay Description: Click here for the products used in this video: https://cooltools.us/collections/masked-stamp-keum-boo-pendant-by-pam-east In this video, Pam East shows how to mask a texture so that you can use just the design you want and create a flat area before impressing into metal clay. The piece is fired, and the once masked area of the piece is then used to apply gold foil. Pam uses the Ultralite kiln for the keum-boo process. </video> <video> Cool Tools | Extruded Knit Pattern in Metal Clay by Karen Trexler Description: Click here for the products used in this video: https://cooltools.us/blogs/news/extruded-knit-pattern-in-metal-clay-by-karen-trexler In this video, Karen shows how to use extruded coils of metal clay to create a knit looking pattern. In this technique she twists the coils, which requires a clay with a long working time. She uses FS999 Fine Silver Clay to ensure the coils do not dry out or crack. This is a great beginner project, or a helpful technique for adding accents to your own pieces. </video>

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