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[navigator9]

Light gray, dark gray, slate blue gray, green and gray, brownish gray. More and more reason to love gray but last, the best reason of all, my beauty girl.

Looove the confetti soaps. And the pooch! He makes me want to snuggle him. :grin:

 

[newbie]

I love my girl but she's not much for snuggling. My other two dogs are complete lovers, sometimes too much, so it balances off.

The green and gray one looks like a spinner to me. I love the dark colors in it. I can't think of how else, other than spinning, that they would get those lines and that overall shape of the swirls.

Navigator, have you thought about getting a cutter where you can set the wire across the platform that holds the soap? You can then slice of the slab of soap needed for the rim. I think you need to invest because I can tell how much you absolutely LOVE the rimmed soaps.

 

[newbie]

Going for relative opposites today.

 

[jules92207]

OMG newbie your baby is so beautiful...oh the soaps are too.

 

[newbie]

I can only say thank you from her, because alas, I had no hand in creating her looks!

Love these two packaging ideas.

The last one- soap sausages? That just turns me off, I must say.

 

[dibbles]

What a pretty girl you have Newbie. She looks so regal.

 

[jules92207]

The last one- soap sausages? That just turns me off, I must say.

Yeah, agreed. Soapfetti, maybe?

 

[navigator9]

I love my girl but she's not much for snuggling. My other two dogs are complete lovers, sometimes too much, so it balances off.

The green and gray one looks like a spinner to me. I love the dark colors in it. I can't think of how else, other than spinning, that they would get those lines and that overall shape of the swirls.

Navigator, have you thought about getting a cutter where you can set the wire across the platform that holds the soap? You can then slice of the slab of soap needed for the rim. I think you need to invest because I can tell how much you absolutely LOVE the rimmed soaps.

First of all "her", not "him".....I should have known by the girlie pose, with the paw tucked under!

Second, yes I really do love those rimmed soaps when they are done as artistically and precisely as those posted here. As for the cutter, the only ones I've seen similar to what you mention, are the big slab cutters used for cutting huge slabs into logs, and they cut vertically, not horizontally. Do they make some that would do that, and are adjustable? You're right, I'd love to give this technique a try.

 

[rparrny]

As for the cutter, the only ones I've seen similar to what you mention, are the big slab cutters used for cutting huge slabs into logs, and they cut vertically, not horizontally. Do they make some that would do that, and are adjustable? You're right, I'd love to give this technique a try.

Just thinking out loud here...but I'm imagining a wire any width you want;...each end wrapped around wood so I could hold it taught...then having two pieces of wood at either end of my slab as a guide for my wire...I hold the wire taught...using the wood planks on the edges of my slab of soap as a guide for depth and then drawing the wire across the slab making a nice even cut....(I hope)

 

[newbie]

The one or two I have seen have the wire strung across the platform and the height can be adjusted. That is held stationary by the posts and then you push the slab through so that the wire slices a uniform piece off the surface. It's much like the vertical ones, where you push the big block of soap through to cut it into logs. Let me dig a bit and see if I can find a pic or two.

 

[newbie]

Well, there you go. Steso has a step by step on how to build a horizontal cutter as her latest post. The other pic is a cutter that cuts horizontally but doesn't look as clearly for soap, although it's listed a soap cutter.

http://bysteso.blogspot.com/

 

[DeeAnna]

"...wire strung across the platform and the height can be adjusted..."

Like this example?

 

[Saponista]

How do u think they achieved this lovely wood grain effect? It sort of looks spin swirl esque, but not. I hate when I can't work things out.

 

[newbie]

Yes, DeeAnna, much like that and with the ability to cut much lower as well.

Do you have the source of that picture? It looks to me like they poured and maybe just did a back and forth over it, very finely, with a few slight loops in spots. Looks like they may have poured some of it in bullseyes. I can see that some of the pulls were across one direction and some the opposite but I can't tell if they had done some swirling before that. I think they did. I'd love to see a blown up picture.

And for today.

 

[DeeAnna]

Could it be done this way??? Mix cocoa in glycerin, sprinkle droplets of the cocoa syrup over the top, do a little blending and swirling with a chopstick to pull some of the cocoa into lines, but leave other parts alone. I could even see using a toothbrush dipped in the cocoa syrup and used to spatter droplets that small -- kind of like what we used to do as kids in art class. Would be pretty with a little gold mica syrup spattered on before swirling.

 

[Saponista]

It was from an Indonesian poster on Facebook. I can't find the post now, that's what I hate about Facebook! I did comment to compliment them and asked them how they did it, so if they reply or anyone else comments I will get a notification and be able to find it again. Will post if it reappears!

I think it looks like a combination of pour and swirling with a tool.

 

[navigator9]

Well, there you go. Steso has a step by step on how to build a horizontal cutter as her latest post. The other pic is a cutter that cuts horizontally but doesn't look as clearly for soap, although it's listed a soap cutter.

http://bysteso.blogspot.com/

"...wire strung across the platform and the height can be adjusted..."

Like this example?

OMG, you guys are too much! I'm off to check out Tatsiana's site....O.K., I just looked at the tutorial, my God, she was generous to do such a beautifully detailed one. And even with the lousy Google translation, I think I understand the construction, but for the life of me, when I look at the picture of the completed cutter, I can't seem to figure out how it works. It still looks to me, like it cuts vertically. I had imagined the part with the wire had to be stationary and the soap got pushed against it. In the picture, it almost looks like the cutter acts like a miter box, and the wire comes down and cuts off a slice. I think I'm missing something.

 

[DeeAnna]

No, I think you've got the right idea, Navigator. Did you see the other pics here: http://bysteso.blogspot.com/2015/04/blog-post_7.html -- that show a little more about how she uses the cutter? I do think the wire slices vertically, using the edges of the two uprights to guide the wire.

The very last photo in her tutorial hints at how she set up an older version of the cutter to take a 4 mm horizontal slice off the bottom of a soap log. You could cut grooves higher up to take thicker slices.

I would think it would take two people -- one to hold the cutter in the grooves and the second to push the log through. Unless she has a way to fix the wire in place so it doesn't pop out of the grooves -- she doesn't mention anything about that. The way I'm understanding this is the soap would want to push the wire out of the grooves as the cut is made.

 

[Saponista]

I'd love the correct tool to be able to do this. I have wanted to make the rimmed soap for a while. I am so not handy and neither is my husband.

 

[navigator9]

No, I think you've got the right idea, Navigator. Did you see the other pics here: http://bysteso.blogspot.com/2015/04/blog-post_7.html -- that show a little more about how she uses the cutter? I do think the wire slices vertically, using the edges of the two uprights to guide the wire.

The very last photo in her tutorial hints at how she set up an older version of the cutter to take a 4 mm horizontal slice off the bottom of a soap log. You could cut grooves higher up to take thicker slices.

I would think it would take two people -- one to hold the cutter in the grooves and the second to push the log through. Unless she has a way to fix the wire in place so it doesn't pop out of the grooves -- she doesn't mention anything about that. The way I'm understanding this is the soap would want to push the wire out of the grooves as the cut is made.

I did see those pics DeeAnna, but they didn't clear up the question I had. Is the piece with the wire, connected to the other piece with screws, or is it separate? If it's separate, do you just slide the wire into the grooves when you want to use it as a planer as opposed to a cutter? Hope that makes sense.