Post #144655 by freddiefreelance on Fri, Mar 4, 2005 1:40 PM

On 2005-03-03 22:07, yumyumkid wrote:
What if you were to tape say, 15-20 toothpicks together, creating a toothpick/stippling stamp! After using the "stamp" you could hit a few spots with a pencil creating larger wholes so it looked more natural. I'm fresh out of toothpick's but will get some by this weekend and try it out. Thanks teaKEY!

I thought of this, too, but mentally took it another step: Take a tuna fish or sardine can & fill the bottom of the can with sculpty. Stick round toothpicks into the sculpty to fill the can, trying to not make the grouping too regular. Some of the toothpicks get pushed further in than others, some of the toothpicks you could put a layer or two of scotch tape around them to make a bigger space around it, replace some toothpicks with woodem skewers broken off to the length of a toothpick, replace others with pins or thin metal rods of approximatly the same length as a toothpick, etc. (whatever you want to do to vary the spacing & size of the toothpicks). Bake it to harden the sculpty & you have a bulk stippling block. You can stipple a larger area with this block by stamping it into the mug, then turning the mug to another unstippled area, twisting the block to change the pattern of holes & stamping it again, or lay the block on your work area & roll the mug across it.