PasteMaker contains a saturant which aids connections - it almost "melts" the surfaces of dry clay to dry clay, wet to dry, and reinforces joins between wet to wet.
Use it on its own, instead of water, to soften dry clay shapes, and add a drop between your base shape and the design you want to apply - no paste needed so less risk of a mess and less to clean up! Or turn it into a smooth paste which sticks readily to both silver, bronze, and copper metal clay.
For bronze and copper clay, use the paste mixed up with a little clay to make joins and attachments on damp, leather hard or bone dry clay. It also works great for repairing fired pieces.
For silver clay, use the paste for attaching leather hard, bone dry or fired clay pieces. It helps the clay stay in place where you put it - ideal for fine construction work! Use it on its own, saturate the back of the piece you want to attach until it softens, and add join the saturated piece to the base shape. To make a strong bonding paste, just mix 6-10 drops with a pea-sized piece of clay and blend with a spatula until you have a smooth creamy consistency. Store the paste in an air tight container and use PasteMaker to dilute it if it dries up.
Advantages of PasteMaker:
This is a fantastic product that I wouldn't be without. So effective and easy to use. You can add a few drops to a dried up paste pot to bring it back to life or make new paste with your dried out dust. The paste is very effective for joining pieces together, filling in cracks and painting on designs. Thanks you Metal Clay for stocking it in the UK for us.
This is great! I love the consistency I can get using this product with my PMC clay particularly when painting designs.
Does what it says on the tin. Makes nice paste for filling cracks, mending and finishing.
I do not know this product but am very excited to use it .
I use it always when joining both wet and dry pieces - I never use just water anymore. I believe my joins are much stronger as a result and one bottle lasts for a very long time.
I actually thought this was going to be one of those gimmicky products that you don't really need because you can just add water to make slip. What a find! I store my slip in tiny jars, a few drops of this and the slip stays wet and has a lovely glue/paste consistency without drying out. I've also found it gives the slip a longer working time. Just for an experiment I added a few drops to a dried out piece of copper clay and worked it in. It worked, the clay was malleable again (though a little sticky, think that was a matter of working out how much to add) highly recommend paste maker to any metal clay artist
