$10 Clay Gun Good For Mmf? Help Quick!
Decorating By projectqueen Updated 3 Dec 2006 , 5:12pm by BklynSuze
I'm going out soon and was thinking about picking up the clay gun I saw at Michaels for $10. Does anyone use that one? Is it worth it or too cheap to be any good?
I need it to make long ropes out of MMF. Will that work? I'm wondering how you get enough MMF in there to make a continuous rope without it breaking.
Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
If it is the silver one, in another thread members were saying that the silver coating on the inside would break off, and didn't recommend it for that reason.
If you have a coupon or can wait until you get one, look at the Makins Professional Ultimate Clay Extruder. It is green metal and in an orange and green package.
I bought the cheap one from Michael's that is sold in the sculpty clay aisle.
I hate it!!! It is so hard to push and the fondant has to be warm to use it...I would save your money and buy a good one especially for fondant!
Laurel
Thanks, I'm going to look for the green one.
I have a coupon!!!!! 
I saw a lady on Food TV Challenge using a pasta attachment on her Kitchen Aid Mixer to do her fondant. I haven't tried it on mine and she WAS using the "flat" attachment, but, I don't see why you couldn't put the fondant through the spaghetti attachment OR the macaroni attachment. I don't even know if you own a Kitchen Aide but if you DO...this might be the answer.
PS I have tried the Play Doh tools with NO success, so I'm thinkin' you might needs something a little more sturdy than the Michael's tool.
You can check out the Makins one at this website:
http://www.clayalley.com/tools.htm
Michael's price is about $30, but with a coupon it brings it down to reasonable. Janice
Earlene Moore sells and adapted cookie press for longer lenghts of fondant.
I have the green one..DO NO LIKE IT. I have to PUSH so very very hard to get the fondant through, but the young man that comes here once in a blue moon loves it...
He's got 20 year old strong hands! lol..So I gave it to him for helping me and got myself the 30 dollar one from BERYLS.COM that has all the little silver discs in a little round plastic container...I love my little gun so much that it's like my 3rd one..lol
I'm saving for Earlene's gun
I have this one you are talking about and I HATE it, it is so hard to push and get the rope out, no matter how soft the fondant is, and I also noticed that the rope came out with black spots, so my white fondant looked dirty... no clue why! I washed it several times and nothing! Also the discs came not perfectly perforated causing my fondant to not be smooth, my DH fixed it with a tiny nail and a hammer. Now I got the sugarcraft clay gun, I got from Beryls, they are the cheapest online. Still learning how to use it. HTH
I have the large green Professional Clay Extruder. It is packaged in a hard case with several dics. You don't have to push with this one. You just turn the handle. SOOOO much eaiser, and it holds a LOT more than the last one I had.
I have used it so much, I bought two more for back up incase they disappear.
I have the large green Professional Clay Extruder. It is packaged in a hard case with several dics. You don't have to push with this one. You just turn the handle. SOOOO much eaiser, and it holds a LOT more than the last one I had.
I have used it so much, I bought two more for back up incase they disappear.
Which one is that one? Do you mind sharing? Thanks!
This is the green one that you turn the handle.
You can look at it here http://www.clayalley.com/tools.htm
Michael's has it, but they don't have it online. Janice
Thaks Janice!! And just if you don't mind, one more Q, when the fondant comes out with the larger discs, is it cracked? As if the fondant was really dry? I've been having this problem with the one I have right now and I use tons of crisco to try avoid this... just wondering... thanks!
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