Super Sculpey Sculpting Compound Extra-Firm Gray Oven-Bake Clay - Shatter and Chip Resistant - 1 Lb, Pack of 3

I've been using this for certain parts of the hand-crafted gnomes I've been making. Love this stuff.

Excelente.

They clay is very hard initially but rolling between the palms softens it up easily. Once conditioned, the clay is easy to use , works well with clay tools and holds intricate details. It is reasonably priced compared to competitors. I’ve tried many brands of polymer clays and always cone back to Sculpey brand products.

Bought this for our 8yr old grandson, a budding artist. He immediately started sculpting some of his favorite TV and movie characters. This clay was very easy for him to be creative. We had to let him create numerous objects so as to only heat up our oven once to bake them. Now the sculptures are baked and preserved forever.

easy to use, but you do have a set amount of time. may have to work in some mineral oil if it sits in a drawer more than a year or so, but we love sculpey. It is the basis for many of our sculptural pieces prior to casting.

Its gooda but too soft for a beginner sculpture practitioner

This Sculpey material is labelled "Extra Firm". There is no extra firm, This is just Sculpey Firm. Exact same labelling, product number and exact same bar code.That said, I will buy this package of 3 again and again because the price is about $5 less per pound than the individual pound packages of Sculpey Firm.The material is wonderful to work with, especially if doing detailed work. The gray color shows light/dark contrast in lighting much better than any other polymer I have tried and the firmness holds detail, but as another reviewer suggested, use a blow drier to "bake" details as you go. Great product.I would give it 5 stars, but I dislike being lied to.

All three of the boxes arrived completely hardened out. The clay inside the boxes was not wrapped in any plastic, so perhaps the individual boxes themselves have drawn out the oils from the clay. I attempted to chip off a small piece of the clay from a corner of the block, and it was very brittle and had no malleability. I trust the Sculpey brand, as so many of the sculptors that I watch on Youtube use it. Maybe mine was just a bad batch? Maybe it was just really old? Either way, the clay needs to be checked before it is shipped out. (And no, this was not salvageable with baby oil or any other substance. It would have been like mixing completely dry flakes of clay with oil. I think that would take hours, which is not the intent of this product and not worth the price if I have to condition it myself with my own oils.)