Okay, so maybe a little extreme! Especially for $400.... lol. but still neat 
I like the idea.
Hi, very interesting. But I got this one.
http://www.almondart.com/acatalog/info_KLAY50.html
Very useful.
i dont recommend the green little one you have to push with your thumb! it is a killer!
I think they just made an attachment for a drill... i don't own just randomly found it
**insert Tim (The Tool Man) Taylor-esque grunting here**
Now THAT's an extruder!! I need to get a better one.. maybe not THAT much better though.. 
Now my brain is thinking though... on how you could make something like that. It's just a drill with something like a caulking gun end on it. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.........
duh! I forgot the link!
http://polymerclayexpress.com/clay_extruder.html
I don't think their guns seem good.. ? just to big and awkward, and still too much effort.
Jeanne,
I think if you had the twisting extruster, I wonder if you could get your drills chuck to attach? It would be "ghetto" but save your hands... I don't know if that makes sense.. lol. it does to me 
so thats not a good sign
Oh it makes sense to me too.. no worries. I think that's exactly the concept.. nuthin' wrong with a little ghetto fabulousness. 
Hey Sari66 -- You like the clay extruder that you got from Hobby Lobby? Like it's reallly good to get? And works pretty good? Thanks!
I'm not Sari, but I have the same one from Hobby Lobby, and I love it. It is SO much easier to use than the thumb plunger type, much easier on the hands. I even paid full price for it, and don't regret it at all. HTH
sorry, but what do you use this for?
What CAN'T you use it for!
here is one example,
sorry,
instead of rolling out snakes, you can just extrude them! Makes them perfect every time
I bought the little green one for $5 just to see if I liked the results. I liked the results but not pushing with my thumbs. So, I bought the green metal one by Makins and I like it much better. I've used it all day today and I couldn't have done that with the thumb-push one. It was worth every penny to me.
I could not live without my extruder. One time I had a bride that wanted to make her own wedding cake. She asked me for a list of tools that she would need. When she saw the extruder was $55 she almost died, but then when she saw it would cost her more to make her own cake than to get it from me, she knew she was in over her head, but just wouldn't admit it.
Can you make ropes longer than the length of the extruder tool, or do you have to piece together little 6" ropes to wrap around a cake?
Hand rolling is not that big of a deal to me compared to washing yet another tool. It seems like it would be faster to plop a blob of fondant down and roll one long rope than to keep loading bits of fondant into an extruder.
Am I missing something?
I do have the green one unopened in my supplies--I just keep looking at it and thinking it's more trouble to use it than to roll it out by hand.
Well when you think that you aren't making a 1" snake.. you can get a VERY long snake of clay that is a couple mm's thick from one load of the extruder.. and if you needed to you can re-load it and keep going.. sometimes you will get a little indent or bubble, but you can roll that out.
I hate rolling out thin snakes of gumpaste.. it's a pain in the ass.. but it's easy to extrude them.. and I have one of those crappy thumb press ones. I'd rather use that little beast than roll it out by hand.
sorry, but what do you use this for?
What CAN'T you use it for!
here is one example,
Rocketgirl, on that little bow example, exactly what parts are extruded and what parts aren't?
the green edges are.
you can also use extruders in different shapes to make picture frame boarders, snakes of different sizes to make scrolls, hair, you can make flat bars... umm just lots of stuff!
i was just trying to buy one of these today at hobby lobby...the only thing they had that said "extruder"on it was a small stainless steel one that looked like a thumb pushed one...it was $10.99. there was a peg beside it that was empty but had a label that said something about clay tool with battery...when i asked the girl about it, she said that wasn't an extruder, the only one they had was that small steel one...and they can't even order a different one. i really need one, at the latest tomorrow...anybody have any ideas to help? we have a michaels, hobby lobby, and joannes here, along with super walmart. we also have a two cake shops, but i;ve already checked with both, and they'd have to order it. help!
Sometimes when I used my green Makins extruder, my snakes have rough feathered edges all around. It is not a smooth snake. What am I doing wrong? Is my fondant to dry, need more shortening? Too moist?
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