Thursday, October 3, 2013

Flexibility Test On All Polymer Clay

Testing for flexibility on Fimo Classic, Fimo Soft, Premo, Sculpey III, Bakshop, Cernit, Filani,Kato And Pardo polymer clay at 2.0mm thickness baking at 140ºC for 30 minutes.


Test samples prepared for baking at
2.0mm thickness




Test samples from original clay packing

Fimo Classic flexible
Fimo Soft flexible
Premo Sculpey flexible
Sculpey III weak brittle
BakeShop is brittle

Cernit is hard but brittle

Filani is very flexible


Kato very hard but brittle
Pardo is flexible but cracked after a
few bending

Test shows that Sculpey III, Bakeshop, 
Cernit and Kato are brittle. As for Pardo 
it cracked after a few bending. At 2.0mm
Filani is the most flexible beside 
Fimo Classic, Premo and Fimo Soft.




1 comment:

  1. Kato would be less brittle if baked at higher temp, as package instructions say.

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