Hello! I posted the other day curious about baking for polymer clay, and have tried to research this question and am hoping to get it answered here. Got a Dash mini toaster oven today for my projects and today when looking noticed that it doesnt have a temperature gauge, only a timer. Instructions say that temperature goes to 400 and for lower temps to have a shorter time, but wondering if this just wont work for polymer clay.

https://bydash.com/products/mini-toaster-oven

This is the link to the toaster oven i have. If it doesnt work its not the biggest deal, i got it for free. Thank you in advance!

I decided to look into this company when I realized that the product and customer ere both coming from China. I have nothing against China overall, but take interest in how companies work when orders arrive with missing items, and when customer service stops responding upon being asked for a tracking number.

Keoker's own website, amongst others, has 2 different stories and sets of names about who founded their company. One says a set of friends named Kara and Kevin, the other says a married couple named Kennedie and Kettering. I understand that name translation may be part of this error. However, when I try to find information about the current ownership of this company or any other information, I can't seem to find it. Although the cutters themselves are very good, the rest of my experience with this company is making me very hesitant to order through their website again. Any and all info is greatly appreciated!

Note: I need to bake it for many more times to add hair etc.

Ok so I've learned my lesson and going forward will be using 2-part resin for these, however, I've put a lot of work into the ones that are already made and am wondering if I can salvage what I've made. Onto the issue:

I've made 10 ramen bowl magnets for an upcoming pop-up. After everything was baked, I filled them with a brown UV resin and cured it so it would look like broth.

Here is the issue: the top layer of the resin cured, and the bottom did not, so, when I put them on the fridge on their sides, resin started leaking out of them.

What I've done to salvage them: I drilled a couple holes in the bottoms of the bowls so that the raw resin could leak out. They still look fine from the top, however, I would like to be more certain that they won't continue to leak resin.

I'm wondering if I could put them in the oven at a very low temp to heat the raw resin and hopefully get the rest of the raw resin out. Any advice or recommendations would be so appreciated. Thanks!

Made this today

Whenever I am painting eyes onto my figure, the paint looks cakey. (I don’t know how else to describe it) Is there any way to make the paint look smoother when applying these small details?

Hi! Very new to this, and just bought a kit off amazon to begin to make little things. I know I have to oven bake to cure it, and ive read online that you can use turkey bags to bake them in. Just wondering if thats true :) i have a little dog with allergies so would rather just be safe than sorry with any fumes or anything, hence the turkey bags to hopefully contain any (even if it says nontoxic idk, i am paranoid though). Thanks in advance!!

I love playing around with polymer clay! I feel like this is the first thing I've made, 1.without a mold 2.doesnt look like a 6 year old made it! I would love opinions or criticism please!

My sculpture needs a stand. And I have already hot glued the armature into the wooden platform. I will have to add more clay to finish my sculpture. Would hot glue withstand the oven?