{"id":4370,"date":"2012-03-30T15:08:46","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T08:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/?p=4370"},"modified":"2012-03-30T23:12:13","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T16:12:13","slug":"worldwide-pasta-machine-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/2012\/03\/worldwide-pasta-machine-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Worldwide Pasta Machine Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Last week Sage Bray, the editor of The Polymer Arts magazine, and I had a guest post on Polymer Clay Daily<\/a> about measuring thicknesses on pasta machines. We asked the polymer community to follow\u00a0measuring instructions<\/a> and fill out a short survey.<\/a>\u00a0 We’ve heard from artists all over the world and so far we’ve collected more than 60 responses, not including my 12.<\/p>\n

I have over a dozen pasta machines picked up over the years at garage sales and thrift stores. Most of them are similar to the Atlas 150 but two of them are very different. The large white one on the left is a Bialetti, an electric machine with plastic rollers that are slightly textured. The mini one on the right is an old Ampia with the noodle maker permanently attached. I’ve measured them all with both the metric stacking system and the playing card system and found a huge variation. It was an eye opener!<\/p>\n

Why does it matter so much to me personally that we come up with a way to consistently and accurately refer to the thickness of pasta machine settings?<\/p>\n

In my Watercolor Technique Tutorial<\/a>\u00a0I show how to create sheets with the appearance of a watercolor wash. The basic version of the technique is to lay a thin sheet of color on a thick sheet of white and run them through at the thinnest setting on the pasta machine.<\/p>\n

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I tested three different machines by following the basic Watercolor instructions – thinnest color over thickest white. \u00a0I used a 3\/4″ square cutter to cut out the same size squares for each sample. The clay run through on the Atlas 150 did not wash – the white does not show through the color. The clay run through the Pasta Queen washed a little bit and the Ampia washed beautifully.<\/p>\n

The differences in the amount of color washing are entirely the result of variations in the thick and thin settings.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are now so many different pasta machines, and the range of settings is so large, that I can no longer use the basic instructions for the Watercolor technique. I need a way to insure that all the students in my classes will get the same results regardless of what pasta machine they use. I need a standard for measuring thickness.<\/p>\n

If you’ve already sent in the survey, thank you! If you haven’t, there’s still time. Just\u00a0go to PCD<\/a>, measure your pasta machines and fill out the survey. If you do it by Saturday, March 31st at midnight my time, Pacific Standard (PST), you will be entered to win one of the prizes.<\/p>\n

We will be publishing a summary of the results on PCD next week. The more data we get from around the world the better! Let’s do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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