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The first polymer clay by an artist, for artists

project plectrum

strum in style!

Kato Polyclay behaves most like your ordinary guitar pick. Rigid, hard, but also slightly flexible. In this project, you will learn how to make a patterned guitar pick. Take it to the next open-mic or make a hole and wear it on a necklace!

materials

striped guitar pick

-Kato Polyclay: Red, Orange, Yellow, White and Black

-Pasta machine

-Clay blade

-Scalpel or craft knife

-Ceramic tile

-Medium grit sanding block

-Guitar pick, teardrop shaped cutter or teardrop shaped Template by artist Cara Jane (www.carajane.co.uk)

- Suitable workspace for polymer clay; i.e., large tile, glass cutting board, marble slab

CREATE A SIMPLE SLAB

1. Condition 1/2 a package of Red, Orange, Yellow, White, and Black.

2. Using your pasta machine, stack your conditioned sheets to create a simple slab as follows:

Red – thick

Black – thin

Orange – medium

White – thin

Yellow – medium-thin

Cut the slab in half, then press the yellow sides together

Cut the pressed slab in half as shown

Press a thin sheet of white next to the red side of one half

Press the other half to the white clay

Cut a 3mm thick slice

Roll the 3mm slice through the thickest setting of the pasta machine – stripes are perpendicular to the rollers. Reset the machine to the next thinner setting – roll through. Repeat this until you have reached the desired thickness

Press thinned slice to ceramic tile. Place *template on clay and cut the shape with a scalpel.Cure at 300 – 315°f

**You can substitute the template by tracing a guitar pick or using a suitable tear-dropped cutter.

+cover your work with an aluminum foil "tent" or wax paper to stabilize colors.

Lift pick off of the tile when cool. Gently sand the sides and edges of the striped pick with a sanding block

There are so many ways you can make your guitar pick uniquely You! SHOW US WHAT YOU GOT WITH #katoclay