Here's a prototype of something new I'm working on- hoop earrings in metal clay. I fired these flat and then bent them and added sterling ear wires. I still have a few bugs to work out but I think they're pretty promising. It's hard to tell from the photo what they look like on so I will have to get a photo of that soon.
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These earrings are perfectly beautiful! I have fired a ring flat and bent it as a bypass - scary but fun.
Kathy
Thanks! I was a little nervous about bending them but I figured it was the best way to fire them in my little tiny kiln.
The love these earrings...your impressions are so crisp and deep.
i have broken so much metal clay trying to bend it. want to share what type it is? i'm totally curious. i won't bogart your awesome design. :) really, what great innovation of materials. clean, simple: silver.
It was PMC3. I use a hotplate kiln to fire my pieces, so I can take them out when they're still really hot and quench them right away, so they're annealed for bending. I think that helped. I wasn't sure if it would work but it worked fine this time. Hopefully it wasn't just beginner's luck.
These are lovely! I've made hoop earrings with metal clay and used a similar technique. I used the Dynasty stamps for bypass rings from Riogrande. I fired mine flat also, then shaped. When I make metal clay pieces that I want to bend, I fire at 1650 for 2 hours (the optimum firing schedule for metal clay)to insure full sintering. Anything less seems to break. Again, lovely!
Tracey
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