With any luck we may soon have a guide that sets standards we can all work in with options for measuring your clay thickness by measuring the clay output itself or the space between the rollers of your machine.īottom line. Or you can write us here at with your thoughts!įurther experimentation at the start of 2012 between Sage Bray and Maggie Maggio looks like it will result in a guide that will include mm as well as card measuring and a simple equivalence to the thin-medium-thick descriptions often used in books and tutorials to date.

If you want to let us know what you think about this, drop a note on Facebook at ‘The Polymer Arts’ page. This particular subject started a very lengthy conversation on our Facebook page. Setting #1=8 cards, etc.) and keep it near your machine, you only need to ever do this once.įor those of you without a deck of cards at the moment, this chart can be your general guide: To measure a machine’s sheet thickness you just need to see how many cards will slip between the rollers on each setting without forcing it. 10 cards should equal approximately 1/8” or 3mm (stack 10 cards and hold the edge of the stack up to a ruler to measure). Cards from boxed games, flash cards or kid’s playing cards may be too thin.

Standard decks are made from card stock (now you know where that term came from!) with a thin plastic laminate. You can get a standard deck of cards used for games like Poker or Bridge at a drug, grocery, toy or department store in most countries.

To find the settings on your machine that matches up to our simple 1-8 cards references all you need is a deck of playing cards. In The Polymer Arts magazine, we use card measurements as the standard for measuring sheet and rope thicknesses. EXCERPT FROM Winter 2011 issue's article:

1st playing cards thickness