Have you ever looked at some of the Lucy clay tools and wondered if they were
worth the money? Well, I ordered a few things from the Lucy clay store and I
thought I would show you not only what I got but also how to assemble the slicer
that I ordered. Hi there, Sandy here, welcome to another Friday findings video
at keepsakecrafts.net. One thing I have always been a fan of is really well
designed, well engineered tools and the Lucy clay tools fit that category
perfectly. Whereas for polymer clayers we tend to grab tools from all different
sorts of things, whether it's cake decorating or metal smithing or leather
working, and we make them work for our polymer clay, but the Lucy clay tools are
specifically designed for clay. So I recently placed an order with the Lucy
clay store and I got a few things including a mini slicer. First of all I
got some stencils, they were much smaller than I expected them to be but
actually I think they'll be really good. They're a good scale for the jewelry
that I do in polymer clay and it's a nice little set. I've just grabbed a dark
piece of paper so you can actually see them. So these are kind of fun sort of
spider webby looking but really it depends on what portions of them that
you use in your projects, you can get different kinds of looks.
It'd be fun to play with mica powders, paints inks different products. That
one's kind of fun, I think this one was the reason I got this set, sort of a
tumbling blocks quilt kind of pattern look. So those are the stencils, I think
they're about three inches square, a nice set, and like I said, the scale actually
is very good. It can be tricky to find ones and I think it was only like eight
dollars U.S. for this. There's six? Then I seem to be missing one, no, there's only five, hmmm.
It says set of six, but pictured here there's only five.
I'll have to look into that further. I also got a magnet which is a safety
protection device for the slicer since I plan to leave it out on my table I
figured it would be a good thing to have this. I tend to be kind of clumsy and
klutzy and bang into things I don't mean to so this seemed like it was worth it. I
think it was just under three dollars for that. But of course the main reason I
placed the order was to get this, the mini slicer. I don't do a lot of cane
work so I wondered if I really even needed to bother with getting the slicer
but when I do make canes I often have trouble cutting them evenly and thinly
so I thought it would be worth the while to get the slicer to make the most of my
canes and not waste so much. I got the mini one because really all I cut are
canes, I don't cut big huge things and I don't have a lot of space on my table. So
everything came packaged beautifully, you can see this is in this kind of egg
crate foam. In fact the entire package was wrapped in an outer wrap, wrapped
with bubble wrap and then wrapped in an inner wrap, it was really well packaged
and I appreciated that since it did have a long way to travel. Let's see, first of
all we've got some glue and a magnet and some hardware, and then all of these
parts, yes, that's the blade, and a magnet, and the base, and looks like a sticker
for the base. I'll have to find a use for this, huh? Hmmm, have to think about that. Now I'm one of those
people, I actually really enjoy putting things together. Like I love getting a
piece of furniture from Ikea and assembling it. I know I'm weird that way.
But, so when I saw that this was some assembly I was like, "Oh boy!" So I thought
I would walk you through it because I know not everybody loves to do that.
All right probably the most aggravating part is getting these little bags
open. There we go. It looks like we got a magnet, some hardware and some glue,
that's cool. Okay, and the directions are pretty straightforward. There's a list of
everything you have and then how to put it all together. So the first step number
one is to remove the protective film from both sides of all of the parts. So
even if it looks like it's white and
maybe there isn't a film there, there we go, just kind of work it the edge and you've
get this protective film so you have a nice neat thing to start. I don't know
about you, but I doubt that mine will stay that way, but at least it's nice and
shiny and clean just start with. So I've now removed all of the protective liner
papers and just in the interest of full disclosure, this is actually my second
time assembling this. I had some struggles the first time and then I
realized that there are a couple of videos online showing you how to
assemble it. They help supplement the instructions that you get, which aren't
as complete as one might hope. I'll link to those. So after removing the
protective layer it says to insert the magnet which mine has disappeared to
parts unknown but I'll find it or I'll get another one. It's not going to stay
in here, that's what the little glue is for, or one of the things that's for is
to glue the magnet in. So that'll wait till I'm all done. Next you have to bend
several parts one thing I found really helpful in the video was that they
showed when you bend these you want to press them against a surface so that you
get a nice crisp bend. So you do that with... for this big piece you bend both of
those pieces up. Now this one unfortunately I've bent it a couple
times and didn't bend them nice and crisply and ended up cracking this one.
It's fine, it's going to hold together for me. I'll probably throw a piece of
washi tape or something on here, but it'll be fine. And by the way, this
stuff is really interesting, what it's made of it's called Dibond and in the
middle here it's actually a plastic. it's a very hard plastic and then it's
sandwiched by a layer of aluminum on either side, it's a very strong material.
Now this one's a little tricky to bend to get a crisp edge. What I'm actually
going to do is bring it over to a counter and bend it down over a square
corner so that I get a nice square edge, cuz you can probably see here this
is kind of rounded, and this is where your blade slides, and if it's rounded
you're going to have problems with it getting in the way of the blade, so you
want to make sure that this bend is nice and crisp and square. I don't want to do
it undo it and do it again because I'm afraid it's gonna break like this one. So
just hold it on the edge of a counter, so pretend my hand is a counter and then
bend it over get a nice even... use a bone folder or something to kind of
press firmly and get a nice square, crisp edge. So that I don't have that rounded
part sticking out, which is what I had before and that was a problem. Now don't
be confused by these slots on the side, these lower slots are where your blade
is going to go so these little bumps that are at about the middle of the slot
is where these slots are going to rest. So the part with the long part goes out
here, actually first we want to insert these. So the one with the three goes on
the the edge that has the longer part away from the slots, if that makes sense.
These help keep your piece nice and square which helps you in getting nice
clean cuts. There we go, and then I'll do the same on this side, this one can go
either way, there. You can see how that's holding the whole assembly rigid and
then this just fits right on there. The tricky part is you have to make sure
that this is sitting against this lip and that the back of this is against
this edge with the lip because, you'll see in a moment, that's where your blade
needs the clearance on this side that goes down to the longer channel, that's
where your blade is going to swing so you kind of have to just push straight
down and then see there's a little gap here, and I'm just gonna push that over
and now you can see there's a gap here for the blade, the same over here. Okay!
In the video they actually had a pretty good tricky way of installing the blades
so that you never had it exposed by leaving this protective sleeve on.
There's kind of a little bit of gymnastics going through so I'll just do
this side just by pulling the sleeve partly out. Tt was a little confusing: you
got these two sets of nuts & bolts and neither, none of these pictures showed clearly
which set you were going to use and I was also very confused by this one
because it seemed redundant whether to use the wing nut or the hex nut, and in
fact it said in the video to pick one. So I'll just use the wing nut since it's
easier to tighten on. If I find it's in my way later on I'll swap out that nut.
So you just want to line up the hole in the blade, make sure that it's facing
down so this part with a little tab is facing you, the blade is facing down, line
up the hole, let's just squeeze this around it, put your bolt in and put your
nut. So this isn't the one that needs washers because this is just a handle
that's holding it. Now I'm just gonna go ahead and pull this off and live
dangerously, but carefully, and slide this in place.
See? And now what we're gonna put over here will be the hinge, this is kind of
like a paper cutter, except much, much sharper. So then you have this assembly
here: you have two washers, and you need one on each side of the board, that's
what allows your blade to move. So only one will fit over this part of the bolt.
So we put the bigger one on, slide it through the blade and the board, then put
the other washer on, and this is a... whoop, and this is a locking nut. You can see that
little flange on the right side there, inside there is a nylon or a rubber
bushing that's just a little bit smaller than the threads of the bolt and then
what that means is that it will not come off and that wants to go on the outside
of your assembly, by the way. I'll get that as tight as I can and then you need
to get a screwdriver to hold that slotted screw and a pair of pliers to
tighten it. Yeah, nowhere in these directions does it
say what to do with the glue, but on the video they show putting glue on these
edges and I'm assuming that's to keep this rigid and square and out of the way
of the blade. The magnet, once it's glued in up here, will hold your blade up here.
Not that you want to store it like, that but while you're working, and then this is
your sliding tray. Now I just put the grid sticker on. Let's see, in the
interest of doing it evenly I'm going to peel just half off. Oh, get off! Argh! Look at that,
stop that! Kind of hold the edges up until I'm pretty sure have them aligned,
this looks like you get one shot to do it right, and then, just like putting down
a sheet of polymer clay, kind of smooth it out try to avoid
air bubbles.
Not bad! And then chop! Or,
slice. So that's pretty cool and then you can use the markings, you don't have the
fancy little dial that advances things evenly, but you can certainly use the
markings to get a nice fine slices. Now I've gotta go find that dratted magnet, I
don't know where it disappeared to. You probably were looking at it and laughing
at me because as soon as I turned off the camera... it's stuck to the screwdriver,
hooray! Yeah, it's not gonna stay gotta glue that in,
and I think I'll make sure put my glue on this front side, push the magnet
through so that if there's any glue slop, make sure that's flush, but if there's
any glue that oozes out and maybe has a little edge it'll be on the other side,
oh cool, and not in the way of the blade. So here I am back again the next
day. So the glue is all dry, I've got my little magnet glued in place, and you can
see that works really nicely for holding the blade right up there. I also
added some glue on these corners just to hold this in place, to keep that slot for
the blade free. And I'm thinking this must be like superglue and so what you
need to do when you first open it is actually twist this on tighter and what
that will do it will puncture that hole, you've probably used glue like this
before, but I thought I'd mention it in case you haven't, and then this black cap
is actually two parts, which isn't immediately obvious, and then you have a
little spout. I'd recommend you have like a wet wipe on hand before you start
gluing because. like I said. it's like superglue. it dries pretty fast. it's kind
of oozy. So, like I said, I put the glue in this hole and then pushed the magnet in
from this side so any extra ooze was on the back side, and wiped that with a wet
wipe. Reinforce these, wipe the excess with a wet wipe. A couple other things: I
had said that I'd bought the magnet for the slicer, well, this is for
the big slicer, it doesn't fit, but what I realized was that this came with it, it's
just a magnet that slides there so that's awesome, but when you have it on
your workspace nobody's gonna get hurt. It's not easy to lift this up. Of course,
you don't want to leave it out when children are around, but it's definitely
a good safety precaution just to have that magnet there. So, hey, a magnetic
ruler, I'll find use for this. And then another
thing was I solved the mystery of the stencils. This is set number 6 which
contains 5 stencils. So yeah there's that, this was all complete, 5 stencils, set
number 6. So this video is long enough for one day.
I am now going to take some time and play with it, so next week I'll have a
video showing you how this is used and things I've found out about using it. So
I hope you enjoyed this video. Be sure to subscribe to my channel if you haven't
already for two new video tutorials every week. Happy creating, bye bye.
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