About Faux Bone
Hi and welcome to Robert’s Real Faux Bone weblog. On our blog we invite you to post comments on your experiences in using Faux Bone. We welcome tips, tricks, project suggestions and of course images of the fabulous pieces you have created using Faux Bone. Faux BoneTM is a new, user friendly, inexpensive and extremely versatile material. Faux BoneTM can be cut, and carved, sawn and sanded. It can be filed, hammered, polished, drilled, stamped, riveted, inlayed, dyed, and painted. It can look like ivory, have the patina of aged ceramic, be polished to a pure white, or, of course, look like bone. You can heat and bend it with nothing more than a small embossing heat-gun. It is so strong you can rivet on it, die form right into it, or hammer metal around it. Faux Bone_ is perfect for artwork as varied as jewelry and book making, sculpture, or printmaking. It can be easily embossed to make texture plates for PMC and basket makers can use it to simulate Scrimshaw on the tops of Nantucket Baskets. Rounds of Faux BoneTM can be heated and dapped (formed into a bowl shape) and filled with other materials or combined to make hollow beads. Its strength makes it ideal for use in tool making such as bone folders for bookmaking or as handles for files and stamps. It can be carved and used for printmaking and then the Faux BoneTM “plate” can be patinated as a finished piece itself.
And all of this is just the beginning!
judyfreyerthompson
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