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Post by billieanne on Jun 24, 2013 19:28:15 GMT
Zed, You can make some beautiful things with any of the metal clays, silver, copper, bronze. You need the least amount of equipment for firing the silver clay. If you buy the silver clay that can be fired with a hand torch (you can even use those crème brulee torches) you just need to be able to hold the flame on the piece for about 5 minutes. I think that was the time for some of the clay I had. I think you'd like it because it goes with your polymer clay. I think those are great design you have for your polymer. Instead of seed beads you could use cubic zirconia. You can fire cubic zirconia in place and they come in a lot of different colors, shapes and sizes. You need to plan the piece before you take any silver clay out of the package. Silver clay dries out fast in the air and your hands actually pull moisture from the clay. So it's best to know what you're going to do and do it as fast as you can. I've only worked with silver not the copper and bronze. There are some great web sites with a lot of info online. If I can be of any help let me know. Here's a link to a company in UK that sells cz's I don't know the company. I just posted the link because they show all the shapes you can order. Click here>>> www.diamondcz.co.uk/
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Post by zed on Jun 25, 2013 9:12:50 GMT
Thanks Billie, I did look at the clay briefly earlier this year then forgot about it until I was asked if I knew whether getting a custom made pendant was expensive. My first thought was to look for someone on etsy, then I remembered the clay. I did tell them to practise with fimo or air hardening clay first actually Those cubic zirconia gems are gorgeous
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Post by billieanne on Jun 25, 2013 10:36:17 GMT
Zed, The cost of silver has finally dropped here so I'm sure it's lower where you are. Even so, silver clay is still expensive for such a small amount. But you can make quite a few items from the small amount and you don't have to buy all the tools that I have to make the same piece from a sheet of raw sterling silver. I like cz's. I think but I'm not sure that you can add them to polymer clay too. I use to buy them when I was learning to "set" stones for rings. Much cheaper than real stones. Here's a link that was on my old laptop with tips on working with PMC (brand name Precious Metal Clay, there's another brand but I can't think of the name but they're all very similar) click here>>> www.riogrande.com/Search/pmc_guild/?tab=1 Wonder why the links don't show up like links?
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