Kristie Foss did a little experimenting with her extrusions and worked up an extruder mokume gane. The extruded parts are made into the mokume gane slab and you take shavings off that. The key here would be to load your extruder with colours that work together so that when you slice into your slab the shavings work together. Add your shavings to a sheet of clay and then use the sheet to build your piece whether that’s pendants or pens.
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kristie Foss says
Thanks for spreading my version of extruded mokume gane. Yes, the bits I shaved off were placed on backgrounds and used as separate sheets for other projects. This is one of those “no left-overs” project methods – and it’s lots of fun, too. ~Kristie Foss
Elaine Robitaille says
It’s a great technique! Thanks for sharing it with clayers!