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 enlarge | Author: Grant Diffendaffer
Publisher: Lark Books
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 207599
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 10.2 x 8.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 1600590241
Dewey Decimal Number: 745.5942
EAN: 9781600590245
ASIN: 1600590241
Publication Date: January 1, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: BRAND NEW; never used; clean and crisp!! (no dustcover)
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 Great book, not for beginners February 22, 2008
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
Grant's book is filled with amazing photos of techniques and finished works that will inspire any artist. As a how-to book, this one is not for beginners. Grant has many advanced techniques so if you've been working with clay for awhile, or have taken work shops with him, you will appreciate this book. For the rest of the polymer clay world, read and drool over the fabulous photos and use it as inspiration to reach higher in your craft!
 Worth waiting for! February 20, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I took a workshop with Grant about 5 years ago beacuse I love the look of his textures and wanted to lean his techniques. Wow! with this book he really does give it all away! There is so much more in the book than what he was doing a few years ago when I took the workshop with him. What a great wealth of knowledge, ideas and techniques all bundled up in one little book! Great job! I look forward to his next book!
Something a little bit different February 10, 2008
20 out of 21 found this review helpful
Like many people who work with Polymer, I eagerly was awaiting this publication by the very talented Mr Diffendaffer. I was not disappointed.
This book seeks to take many artists outside of the normal practices of hand rolling and creating beads, by using small lathes and mandrels to form and shape a huge variety of beads.
Starting with the obligatory Essential Tools section, - ho hum I here you say...not so, I guarantee that you will find items here that you either don't have, or had not considered using even if you had them. I have dapping blocks that I use for metalwork, but had relied on plastic moulds to create shape, I had not considered using my dapping block before!
The pictures are excellent, hard pressed to make a mistake in the projects and he is very clear in his intructions. Of course he covers Mica Shift, one of the techniques he is well known for. I enjoyed all the sections, from the Pearlized Mica Clay Beads through to Textured Beads, Lathe-Turned, Recursvice molded Beads, Hollow Form and Mandrel Formed Beads.
This lovely book finishes with a stunning gallery of the "masters" - Dustin,Fago,Toops,Dever,Wallin Malinow and Cormier are a sample. Thank you for producing a "different" book on this wonderful medium.
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