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For extra grip – texture your sugru

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August 2, 2010 Filed under: making, tip

Sometimes lovely smooth surfaces are great, but sometimes you need some extra grip, or you just want a more unusual or unique look.
With the help of a little soapy water to prevent it sticking, you can emboss or stamp your sugru with all kinds of textures before it’s cured. Watch the video to see how.

Oh and it’s fun as well to think of unusual things to use as texturing tools – you can find them everywhere when you start looking… we’ve seen people use the heads of screws, the tops of pens and even the soles of trainers!
Any more texture tool tips?

Posted by Jane
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Cooooooooooooooooooooooool :-)

Gavri on August 2, 2010 at 2:31 am

awesome!

Oleg on August 2, 2010 at 2:56 am

Another thing you can do, is sprinkle sugar over the sugru when soft, then press the crystals gently into the sugru. After it hardens, rinse out the sugru, presto, no-skid

Jim on August 2, 2010 at 7:20 am

In repairing the corner of a leaf panel in my Formica table top that got injured in moving, I needed flat smooth edges to fit closely to the adjacent panel, and to level with the table top.  I found the stiff aluminum individual Sugru package to be the perfect tool for cutting the Sugru evenly while it was still soft, and for pressing it level to the table top.  Thanks!

Elaine on August 2, 2010 at 8:31 am

I have used a towel after allowing the sugru to cure a little. Press the towel in for a somewhat random but still appealing texture.

Micha on August 3, 2010 at 12:27 pm

you can skip the sugar and press it with rough grit sandpaper ;-)

xhozt on August 3, 2010 at 8:00 am

(I posted about what I used for texturing on one project some time ago, but it’s apparently lost in the sugru triangle. :) )

In my experiments, the sugru closest to any surface that’s contacted the soapy water release agent has seemed to cure a bit faster; the stuff works slightly “stiffer” near those areas.

Re: using sandpaper for texture—I suppose if you used the soapy water trick and fresh sandpaper you’d be OK, otherwise I’d be concerned about pulling grit off the paper.  On the other hand, sugru being a variant of silicone, I’d bet that, using sugru with no release agent, you could get good adhesion of a thin layer of many varieties of abrasives if you wanted that.

Michael M. Butler on August 4, 2010 at 4:48 am