Hamster Hair??? How To "scrape" Hair Texture Into Sugar Paste Or Fondant.
Decorating By emarcomd Updated 31 Dec 2014 , 9:05pm by -K8memphis
So my nephew adopted himself a little hamster which he named "Cannoli".
He's got a Christmas birthday so I thought I'd make a cake with a hamster topper, and I found this photo online, and it's blowing my mind.
Yes, I can tell that they "scraped" the texture. It looks too fine to be a fork that they used, so perhaps I'll just tape some safety pins together.
If you look closer, you'll see how intricate that hair is... it's actually... I don't know... scraped and then... scraped again?
How in heavens did this person get such a texture? And can folks tell if this was airbrushed, painted on, colored fondant or.... oh my, I don't even know!
Ayes it does look double 'scraped' -- is it ceramic maybe? but anyway my thought is scrape #1 was randomly rolled over the surface looks like the fine thread of a tiny screw --
then scrape #2 could yes like you said just be from a pin but you could get that effect with one fine tipped pin --
i see me in times past trying to put together a device like you said and getting frustrated and spending more time doing that than it took to just use one needle to what i needed to do -- maybe you'll do better that way but just a heads up in the wee hours of the saturday before christmas --
what a sweet project -- best to you, the special nephew and the lively italian pastry
What about scraping with a brand new toothbrush? Or maybe a brand new thinly toothed comb like a lice/nit comb? Then you would get many hairlines per scraping
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Go get a flea comb with metal teeth, They're really close together and will give you a fine texture like that.
AI have this wonderful limitless tool that does a BUNCH of different effects. It is a gum stimulator that you find in the toothbrush isle. It has a soft rubber pointed tip you can use to scrape lines, mash tiny indentions, push tiny indentions, remove tiny scraps from edges... The list goes on and on! It is one of my favorite tools that I seem to use on every single cake in one way or another.
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I have this wonderful limitless tool that does a BUNCH of different effects. It is a gum stimulator that you find in the toothbrush isle. It has a soft rubber pointed tip you can use to scrape lines, mash tiny indentions, push tiny indentions, remove tiny scraps from edges... The list goes on and on! It is one of my favorite tools that I seem to use on every single cake in one way or another.
That would work really well too...They have sculpting tools that are similar so why not.
Hmmmm..... perhaps that it's clay makes the difference...
...since I'm constantly swearing that I'll floss, yet never do, maybe I'll invest in one of those "gum stimulators!"
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i see me in times past trying to put together a device like you said and getting frustrated and spending more time doing that than it took to just use one needle to what i needed to do --
THAT IS ME **EXACTLY**!!! Spending ten hours creating a tool to make the project "go faster"....
Here is the one I have. I really can't tell you how many things this little bugger can do!
What does Cannoli look like? Different hamsters have a bunch of different "hair styles." For example, there's the one in my avatar. hahaha
oh you did a great job -- and he's putting the star on the tree -- too cool -- love it -- bet your nephew was thrilled
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