{"id":216,"date":"2012-06-21T16:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T22:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=216"},"modified":"2012-06-18T18:53:18","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T00:53:18","slug":"the-sealant-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/the-sealant-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sealant Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To seal or not to seal? Isn&#8217;t that too often the question? We want our work to be durable and keep our surface treatment protected but the addition of a clear glaze or finish can alter the look.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"217\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/the-sealant-debate\/sealants\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/sealants.jpg?fit=1600%2C1066&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1600,1066\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sealants\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/sealants.jpg?fit=430%2C286&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-217\" style=\"border-width: 2px; border-color: black; border-style: solid; margin: 10px;\" title=\"sealants\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/sealants-300x199.jpg?resize=279%2C186\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/sealants.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/sealants.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/sealants.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Well, there is\u00a0no easy\u00a0answer to this but if you want to read up on what options you have, what works best for what kind of work and recommended techniques, take a look at this detailed post over at <a href=\"http:\/\/2goodclaymates.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/to-glaze-or-not-to-glaze-that-is.html\">2 Good Claymates&#8217; blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Do you have any good tips regarding sealants and how and when to apply them?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To seal or not to seal? Isn&#8217;t that too often the question? We want our work to be durable and keep our surface treatment protected but the addition of a clear glaze or finish can alter the look. &nbsp; Well, there is\u00a0no easy\u00a0answer to this but if you want to read up on what options&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[81,12,11,80,16],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supplies-other-fun-stuff","category-tips-and-tricks","tag-2-good-claymates","tag-polymer-art","tag-polymer-clay","tag-sealants","tag-the-polymer-arts-magazine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-3u","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}