http://byzarah.com/pmc3-precious-metal-clay-silver creative beading Sun, 01 May 2011 01:35:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://byzarah.com/pmc3-precious-metal-clay-silver/comment-page-1#comment-9926 Shasha Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:24:36 +0000 http://byzarah.com/?p=1922#comment-9926 Hello, and thank you for your ideas, they give inspiration! For your readers, they should know how amazingly gratifying Silver PMC can be. A death in the family had left me depressed, and bad weather had me stuck indoors, so I got out the pack of low fire silver PMC, and in a few minutes I had set up everything I needed to sculpt a couple of items. After rolling, cutting and shaping the clay, I dried it on a mug heater in about 2 hours, then I put another good 2 hours into carving fine details, and refining surfaces using an inexpensive set of files, all fun things to do, as well. But nothing could compare to the joy that came from the fire! Using a small fire proof screen set on top of my gas stove burner, I heated the peices, and also added flame from a hand held torch. In less than 5 minutes the peices were glowing red, and soon achieved the shimmery silvery look of an item that is completely fired. A quick quench in cool water and 2 minutes later I was polishing them to a near mirror finish with a simple wire brush, and they were done, ready for a bail & jump rings for mounting. When I showed my family what I'd made at the breakfast table that afternoon, they were in awe that Mom had baked cookies and by the way had also made beautiful strong substantial silver jewelry. I cannot stress how fun and easy this is! With practice, I know I will be making keepsakes and items I custom design for clients and sell for profit. PMC is positively the best way to start metalsmithing, and making real jewelry! Hello, and thank you for your ideas, they give inspiration! For your readers, they should know how amazingly gratifying Silver PMC can be. A death in the family had left me depressed, and bad weather had me stuck indoors, so I got out the pack of low fire silver PMC, and in a few minutes I had set up everything I needed to sculpt a couple of items. After rolling, cutting and shaping the clay, I dried it on a mug heater in about 2 hours, then I put another good 2 hours into carving fine details, and refining surfaces using an inexpensive set of files, all fun things to do, as well. But nothing could compare to the joy that came from the fire! Using a small fire proof screen set on top of my gas stove burner, I heated the peices, and also added flame from a hand held torch. In less than 5 minutes the peices were glowing red, and soon achieved the shimmery silvery look of an item that is completely fired. A quick quench in cool water and 2 minutes later I was polishing them to a near mirror finish with a simple wire brush, and they were done, ready for a bail & jump rings for mounting. When I showed my family what I’d made at the breakfast table that afternoon, they were in awe that Mom had baked cookies and by the way had also made beautiful strong substantial silver jewelry. I cannot stress how fun and easy this is! With practice, I know I will be making keepsakes and items I custom design for clients and sell for profit. PMC is positively the best way to start metalsmithing, and making real jewelry!

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