Sunday, April 01, 2012

Hadar’s Copper Clay

    
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Hadar’s jewellery
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The clay powder was easy to mix when the distilled water was added and felt creamy when rolled.
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Sarah drilled the holes in her pendant. I attached a bail to the back of one of my pendants and insert a coil of copper wire for the bail of another.
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Sarah wrapped a river rock with a sheet of clay and then had to mend the crack. I made another pendant from my cuttle fish mould.
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Sarah made a piece with holes so I could show her how to add PMC3 after the copper was fired.
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Torch firing PMC3 was a completely new experience for Sarah. She inserted the silver through the hole in the copper pendant. The washed pebble was cut into three pieces.
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Sarah’s finished pendant. My gingko leaf with a silver insert. The abalone shell pendant has a silver insert with a wire embedded. I am going to add a half drill pearl.

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