Toni Ransfield is an Award Winning Polymer Clay Artist and an acknowledged pen maker, who was accepted into the Pen Makers Guild. Her Polymer Clay art has been seen all over the world through numerous publications.
She has been working with clay for very close to 30 years
now and is a wealth of knowledge for any artist working with Polymer Clay or Woodworking. In a recent article Toni writes,
"Polymer clay itself does not really need a coating, however due to the construction of the pen blanks (pen tubes), and the harsh and often abusive environment that pens are subjected it is preferred to have a treatment coat over the pen blanks (pen tubes) to help bond everything together and add strength. The pen blanks on the inside provides structural support and the coating on the outside provides a skin like mesh that prevents the cane slides from sheering off and causing a disaster to happen.
In the polymer clay community a number of products are used such as Varathane. However in the pen community we have a few options. Namely CA and Casting . . ."
Read the rest of: Cyanoacrylate ‘CA’ Treatment by Toni Ransfield
