Help baking supersculpey with wooden base!

[darkgaze]

Hi there guys. New here.

I just did a sculpture and the base was hard wire in a wooden base..

bad idea, later i realized i had to bake it ... now i´m affraid it will burn out or whatever... or something worse. I don´t know what to do. I can´t take it away. i don´t care if it turns black but i don´t want my sculpture to be damaged...

What can i do? will it work or not?. How could i protect it in that case.

It´s not pure wood, it has (i think that´s the worst thing) a thin layer of dark paint, to turn the wood dark... maybe THAT will burn. Or not?...

Some people told me to keep it 3 hours in there, others 15 min. I don´t reall y know what to do. U_U

[modi123]

Get a heat gun from somewhere like Home Depot and slowly go over it by hand?

http://www.homedepot.com/Tools-Hardware-Power-Tools-Heat-Guns/h_d1/N-bauoZ1xr5Z5yc1v/h_d2/Navigation?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053

[Gorgonzola]

The temperature that's required to burn wood is far higher than what sculpey needs to bake and fuse properly. The highest temp that Sculpey would need is somewhere around 240-250 (not necessarily for a long bake though, but that's a different topic.)

Worst I've had with wooden bases is sometimes sap likes to ooze out of the knots in the wood, but besides that, nothing happens. At 200-220 degrees (if memory serves me, that's recommended temp on the sculpey box,) the wood isn't anywhere near the level needed to catch on fire. So go ahead and do your three-hour bake.