Lots of orders give me little time to do creative work, but I squeezed this one in. Thanks for all your holiday shopping everyone!
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Ring-A-Day: Simple Silver Ring
Ring-A-Day: Buckle Ring
Small and mumpy bumpy lumpy. I’m loving these BronzClay experiments. I get something similar with sand casting, but even that has sharp edges and fine details. The MetalClay is free to move about the cabin while in the kiln going about its atomic sintering.
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Ring-A-Day: BronzClay with holes
I pierced this band and scored a centerline with interesting results. There was one big bubble, probably from a piece of wax that got mixed into the clay. It’s like the bubble on a pizza crust, but really hard. I left the piece rough. There’s something nice about how un-geometrically these pieces fire.
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Ring-A-Day: Leggy Prongs Ring
The setting ended up really tall. It seems to have shrunk more than the rest of the ring. The prongs hold a 5x7mm fire citrine.
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Ring-A-Day: BronzClay Pinky Ring
So, this was supposed to fit my wife, but the BronzClay isn’t shrinking the 2 sizes indicated in the instructions. It’s actually only shrinking one size, and I can stretch it one size on the mandrel. In other words, I can pretty much make metal clay rings at their final size. Let me know what you think of the rough texture. I’m used to putting a mirror polish on all my work, this craggy organic texture on metal is inspiring and simple.
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