JoolTool Introduction | Buffing Polymer Clay

00:00:03 –> 00:00:09 Hi guys, its Cindy Lietz, your Polymer Clay Tutor, and today’s studio tip is using a JoolTool

00:00:10 –> 00:00:12 for buffing Polymer Clay.

00:00:12 –> 00:00:19 Now this is a new tool I’ve got in my studio, I’m very excited about it, it can do a gazillion

00:00:19 –> 00:00:20 things.

00:00:20 –> 00:00:28 Its Jool spelled, J-o-o-l and tool, T-o-o-l, so that’s… but what’s really neat about

00:00:28 –> 00:00:36 it, is a bunch of things, it’s a rotary tool, here I’ll just quickly spin it, and you can

00:00:36 –> 00:00:41 see that it spins like that.

00:00:41 –> 00:00:48 But what’s great about it is you can buy all these little disks, and they’re called Ninja

00:00:48 –> 00:00:56 Disks, and with the design… with this cut through design, when you use them you can

00:00:56 –> 00:01:03 actually see through the top, and it’s the first tool, or rotary type tool that I’ve

00:01:03 –> 00:01:05 seen that works in that manner.

00:01:05 –> 00:01:12 So they have all these different types of disks, you get this plastic disk first and

00:01:12 –> 00:01:19 then you add different sanding disks and things for them, and you can get them in… you can

00:01:19 –> 00:01:25 basically sand anything, polish anything, grind anything with them, there’s…

00:01:25 –> 00:01:31 I’m waiting on an order for some one’s that will work better for Polymer Clay, and actually

00:01:31 –> 00:01:33 it works best if you have a cushion there.

00:01:33 –> 00:01:40 But I want to today show you the buffing, the way I do buffing with this tool.

00:01:40 –> 00:01:47 Now I’ve got a shop-vac hooked up to it, it doesn’t come with it, you can order quite

00:01:47 –> 00:01:54 an expensive vacuum system for it if you want, but I just have this $30 Shop-vac that I’ve

00:01:54 –> 00:02:02 just plugged into the side here, which is beautiful for collecting any dust that you

00:02:02 –> 00:02:03 have.

00:02:03 –> 00:02:06 When you’re buffing, you don’t have any dust, so I won’t need to turn on the vacuum to show

00:02:06 –> 00:02:08 you this part.

00:02:08 –> 00:02:14 Now down below here is the dial, and it’s such a quiet little machine.

00:02:14 –> 00:02:21 It takes hardly any space on your desktop, I have it on a little table that’s a little

00:02:21 –> 00:02:25 bit lower, so that I can see up above it.

00:02:25 –> 00:02:29 And like what I was saying with… these little disks sorta spin on and off, so you could

00:02:29 –> 00:02:34 change out whatever grits you were using really easily.

00:02:34 –> 00:02:39 The surface that… the work surface that you’re working on goes face down, and what

00:02:39 –> 00:02:46 happens is… so you just spin them on like that, because of these little cut throughs,

00:02:46 –> 00:02:52 when it spins fast, you can actually see your work through it.

00:02:52 –> 00:03:00 So I’m gonna lift my piece up to the… to the spinning disk here, and you can see your

00:03:00 –> 00:03:07 piece through it, and that makes it completely different than anything else that I’ve ever

00:03:07 –> 00:03:08 worked on.

00:03:08 –> 00:03:12 A Dremel you have to kind of keep bringing it up to the spinning surface, on a buffing

00:03:12 –> 00:03:18 wheel, same sort of thing and then you have to keep checking back, here you can work on

00:03:18 –> 00:03:19 it the whole time.

00:03:19 –> 00:03:24 So if you’re sanding and buffing, you can tilt your hands and work with it really nicely,

00:03:24 –> 00:03:28 and see it the whole time that you’re working on it.

00:03:28 –> 00:03:34 Like I said, this particular setup, the way I’ve got it setup, works beautifully for polishing

00:03:34 –> 00:03:37 or buffing your Polymer Clay.

00:03:37 –> 00:03:45 Now here’s a piece here that I have buffed on one side, and I haven’t buffed on the other,

00:03:45 –> 00:03:51 and there’s just an enormous difference in how shiny these 2 pieces are, I’ll show you

00:03:51 –> 00:03:53 how I buff it in a sec.

00:03:53 –> 00:04:02 Now what I did for this one is I bought the Black back plate, and a felt disk, now these

00:04:02 –> 00:04:10 disks come with kind of this White stick that’s… it’s kinda like a White version of Rouge that

00:04:10 –> 00:04:17 jewelers use to polish metal and stuff, and they tell you to charge up your felt wheel

00:04:17 –> 00:04:20 before you…with the stick.

00:04:20 –> 00:04:28 I recommend, if you’re gonna use it for Polymer Clay, don’t put any of the White stick on

00:04:28 –> 00:04:31 the wheel, leave it clean.

00:04:31 –> 00:04:37 Another thing is, that you want to… it’s pretty firm, what you wanna do is you wanna

00:04:37 –> 00:04:43 end up scratching up the surface, and a fork works well, I saw somebody do this with some

00:04:43 –> 00:04:49 other type of wheel the other day online, so I thought it was a good idea, but you can

00:04:49 –> 00:04:54 do it while it’s working, I’m just gonna start it up.

00:04:54 –> 00:04:59 Now always make sure, with any rotary tool, make sure your hair is tied back, if it’s

00:04:59 –> 00:05:07 long and it could get caught in here, no loose clothing, no scarves and dramatic jewelry

00:05:07 –> 00:05:09 and things like that.

00:05:09 –> 00:05:17 Also the way this spins, it has the rotation here, it goes this way, so it will spin away

00:05:17 –> 00:05:22 from you and get caught in here if you end up letting go of it, always use a really light

00:05:22 –> 00:05:24 touch.

00:05:24 –> 00:05:26 But when you… you can scratch it up, what I’m gonna show you here, is I’m just gonna

00:05:26 –> 00:05:33 start it up, and it starts… this is the slowest it’ll go, and this is as fast as it’ll

00:05:33 –> 00:05:39 go, I generally kinda work on a half speed, and then you can just take your fork and just

00:05:39 –> 00:05:46 kinda hold it up against the surface and scratch up that felt.

00:05:46 –> 00:05:51 Because it’s spinning so fast it doesn’t act like there’s any holes in there at all, so

00:05:51 –> 00:05:56 you’re not gonna slip through the thing, but this will… and you can kinda scratch up

00:05:56 –> 00:06:02 the edges here, and this will just soften up the felt a little bit so it has lots of

00:06:02 –> 00:06:09 nice little hairs for polishing your Polymer Clay, like that.

00:06:09 –> 00:06:16 Now when you’re…when you’re buffing your pieces, now I’ve already sanded right down

00:06:16 –> 00:06:21 to the finest grit I’m gonna go on here.

00:06:21 –> 00:06:28 You lift the piece up towards the disk, so you may be used to… if you’re using a buffing

00:06:28 –> 00:06:33 wheel of the other types, coming in from the side, don’t do that, come up from underneath

00:06:33 –> 00:06:37 and practice coming up straight from underneath.

00:06:37 –> 00:06:43 And use a light touch, if you push really hard on here, it’ll grab it and fling it away,

00:06:43 –> 00:06:48 so I’m just gonna…oh, and you should know, it’s soft, like it’s fine on my hands, I’m

00:06:48 –> 00:06:52 not worried about that even when it’s going fast.

00:06:52 –> 00:06:56 On the edges, it can kinda give you bit of a rug burn ‘cause it’s really going fast

00:06:56 –> 00:07:01 on the edges there, but underneath, even if your fingers do touch it, it’s… the felt

00:07:01 –> 00:07:03 especially, is no problem for your hands.

00:07:03 –> 00:07:12 So you just wanna lift the piece up, and gently touch it, and kinda move it around, and hopefully

00:07:12 –> 00:07:20 the camera can see it well, and it’s already starting to get a bit of a dull sheen to it

00:07:20 –> 00:07:26 which is really nice for these Mica Shift beads here.

00:07:26 –> 00:07:32 Mica Shift is just an amazing technique that looks 3D but it’s completely flat, but it

00:07:32 –> 00:07:35 looks especially great if it’s buffed up.

00:07:35 –> 00:07:46 So I’m just gonna keep going, and you can see it comes shinier and shinier and shinier.

00:07:46 –> 00:07:53 So this is a wonderful tool to bring in to your studio, it’s kinda in the $300 range,

00:07:53 –> 00:07:57 depending on the different accessories, I mean you can spend a $1,000 dollars if you

00:07:57 –> 00:08:02 wanted to, and get all kinds of different wheels and things for it.

00:08:02 –> 00:08:07 As I get it more perfected with the sanding and that kind of thing, I will start showing

00:08:07 –> 00:08:12 you my best methods for working with Polymer Clay on it.

00:08:12 –> 00:08:17 And then of course you can use a tool like this for all kinds… you can sharpen your

00:08:17 –> 00:08:26 blades with it, with the right accessories, you can grind glass, you can do all kinds

00:08:26 –> 00:08:27 of cool stuff with it.

00:08:27 –> 00:08:31 So I’m really excited to get to play with this and show it to you.

00:08:31 –> 00:08:40 I think it’s gonna be a beautiful tool for all of you Polymer Clay artists that like

00:08:40 –> 00:08:46 to do things in an easier way, in a cleaner way, faster way.

00:08:46 –> 00:08:51 Oh, look at that gloss I’m getting on there.

00:08:51 –> 00:08:58 It’s fast, easy, beautiful, and hopefully the camera is seeing that, but it’s just amazing.

00:08:58 –> 00:09:02 So I’m really excited about the JoolTool for Polymer Clay.

00:09:02 –> 00:09:09 And as soon as I get more of the accessories and figure out exactly the right grits of

00:09:09 –> 00:09:13 sand paper and stuff that will work beautifully, I will let you know.

00:09:13 –> 00:09:15 So I hope you enjoyed that.

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00:09:23 –> 00:09:28 If you have any questions or if you’re excited about this tool, make sure to let me know

00:09:28 –> 00:09:33 in the comment section below, and we will see you next time.

00:09:33 –> 00:09:35 Bye for now.

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