Hadar’s Blog

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• January 2020 Intensives, May 6, 2019
• Compatibility of Hadar's Metal Clays, March 25, 2019
• Save the Date, September 11, 2018
• Enameling on Bronze, August 15, 2018 (14)
• New Templates are Now Available!, July 19, 2017
• Coming Soon! Hadar's Templates™ for Metal Clay, July 9, 2017 (1)
• Enameling Workshops 2018, June 24, 2017 (1)
• Workshop: Color on Metal Clay, March 9, 2017
• Mixed Metal Jewelry from Metal Clay - Second (Revised) Edition, September 15, 2016
• Call for Entries, June 14, 2016
• Travel-Teaching Classes 2017, June 3, 2016 (2)
• More Class Samples for Sculptural Carving Workshop, May 13, 2016 (6)
• New Metal Clay Techniques and Upcoming Workshops, April 26, 2016 (18)
• Next 5-day Workshop: October 6-10, 2016, March 18, 2016 (5)
• DIY Protective Box - Cheap, Easy, and Portable, March 7, 2016 (4)
• Answer to the Third Multiple-Choice Question, February 10, 2016
• Third Multiple Choice Question, February 7, 2016
• New Feature: Multiple-Choice Questions, February 4, 2016
• 5-Day Intensive on January 2-6, 2016, November 10, 2015 (1)
• One-fire Flex Pearl Grey Steel is Now Available!, October 6, 2015
• One-fire Flex Rose Bronze and One-fire Flex White Bronze are Now Available, September 16, 2015 (1)
• The Handbook of Metal Clay: Textures and Forms - The CD, August 25, 2015 (2)
• One-fire Flex White Satin Clay is Now Available, August 18, 2015
• New Links, Programming Instructions, and the Rationale of the One-fire Firing Schedule, August 10, 2015 (1)
• One-fire Flex Clay Is Now Available, August 4, 2015
• One-fire Flex Clay Follow-up: Projects and Video, July 28, 2015
• What Other Things Can Be Done With the New One-fire Flex Clay?, July 20, 2015 (4)
• Same Products - New Names, July 11, 2015 (1)
• What is This Blog About?, July 10, 2015
• New Arrival Coming to the One-fire Flex Group, July 8, 2015 (10)
• Making Progress - One-Fire Flex Clay for the SILie, July 1, 2015 (14)
• One Link at a Time, June 25, 2015 (4)
• One-fire Flexible Clay, no glycerin, for the Silhouette Machine, June 13, 2015 (2)
• New Ways of Working with White Bronze, March 22, 2015 (12)
• Making It Simpler, March 11, 2015
• Adjustable Rings from Metal Clay - Yes, No?, March 5, 2015 (9)
• Now Available: Hadar's Cold Inlay Powders, January 23, 2015
• Coming Soon - Hadar's Cold Inlay Powders, January 18, 2015 (9)
• Wood and Wood Grain, December 19, 2014 (9)
• Project for the Holidays - Chip Inlay, December 3, 2014 (21)
• Accredited Teachers' Contributions to My Upcoming Book, September 30, 2014 (7)
• Now Available for Pre-order: Architectural Jewelry in Metal Clay, September 7, 2014 (7)
• Updates to the Accreditation Program and an Upcoming Workshop, August 12, 2014 (2)
• One-Fire Friendly Brilliant Bronze is Now Available, August 5, 2014 (10)
• 600-gram Piece Fired, July 22, 2014 (8)
• Working Big, July 19, 2014 (22)
• Coming Soon: Friendly Brilliant Bronze (One-fire), July 7, 2014 (10)
• In the Never-Ending Quest for Hollow Forms, June 25, 2014 (12)
• Deadline for Book Submissions, June 9, 2014 (1)
• Description of My Distance Learning/Online Teaching Programs, June 3, 2014 (3)
• Hadar's Ongoing Online Classes, May 6, 2014 (5)
• Patterns in Black and White: What Metals Are These?, May 3, 2014 (10)
• Call for Submissions and Workshop, April 25, 2014 (3)
• Medallion Cuff Bracelet - Free Tutorial for Dark Champagne Bronze, April 8, 2014 (4)
• Coming Soon: Hadar's Clay™ No-Fire Furry Clay, April 1, 2014 (62)
• New Book Update, March 21, 2014
• Mokume-Gane "Twist and Shape", March 18, 2014 (4)
• Mokume-gane - Free Project for Beginners ("Twist and Slice"), March 16, 2014 (7)
• New Clays are Now Available - Part 2: Mid-fire Clays, March 13, 2014 (3)
• New Clays Are Now Available - Part 1: High-fire, March 13, 2014 (3)
• Architectural Ring from White Satin, March 12, 2014 (10)
• Book Updates, March 4, 2014 (10)
• Married Metal - Free Project, February 28, 2014 (5)
• White Satin is Now Available and Future Plans, February 19, 2014 (9)
• Accredited Teachers for Hadar's Clay, February 12, 2014 (2)
• Coming Soon! White Satin, February 6, 2014 (24)
• Mystery Guest - Answers and More, February 3, 2014 (8)
• Who is the Mystery Guest?, February 1, 2014 (16)
• Champagne Bronze and Steel, January 20, 2014 (17)
• One-fire Trio Follow-up, January 14, 2014 (14)
• Hadar's Clay™ Champagne Bronze and Friendly Copper are Now Available, January 3, 2014
• New Year's Day Serendipity, January 1, 2014 (15)
• Friendly Copper - A Welcome Development and a Change of Plans, December 30, 2013 (8)
• Meet Hadar's Clay™ Champagne Bronze, December 17, 2013 (8)
• New Molds Added to the Collection, November 7, 2013 (7)
• Instruction Manual Update and Workshop, October 24, 2013 (7)
• Hadar's Molds - Inlay in Empty Circles, Mirror Image, and Mokume-Gane, October 18, 2013 (7)
• Hadar's Molds - Inlay, October 10, 2013 (2)
• Firing Two Phases in One Uninterrupted Session, October 7, 2013 (16)
• Hadar's Molds - Exploring the Donut, October 3, 2013 (13)
• Hadar's Molds - A Project for Two Molds, September 27, 2013 (1)
• "Yet Another Quilt" Follow-up - Introducing Hadar's Molds, September 22, 2013 (12)
• Yet Another Quilt, September 19, 2013 (27)
• Another Free Project: a Watchband/Bracelet (and Earrings), July 20, 2013 (7)
• Log Bracelet with ClayMill Extruder - Free Project, June 23, 2013 (7)
• Change to The Structure of the Accreditation Program for Hadar's Clay, June 17, 2013 (6)
• Accreditation Program for Hadar’s Clay™ Teachers - Group of Summer 2014, May 31, 2013 (6)
• Drying Low-Shrinkage Steel XT, May 27, 2013 (11)
• Instruction Manual and Pre-firing, May 15, 2013 (46)
• Free Project for Smart Bronze - Solid Ring, May 5, 2013 (20)
• Smart Bronze is Now Available, April 30, 2013 (11)
• Map of Hadar's Clays, April 28, 2013 (3)
• Meet Smart Bronze, April 24, 2013 (44)
• What Would You Say?, April 22, 2013 (173)
• Accreditation Program for Hadar’s Clay™ Teachers - Follow-up, April 16, 2013 (3)
• Free Project - Bulls Eye Earrings Without Caning, April 2, 2013 (12)
• My NEW EMAIL ADDRESS, March 29, 2013
• Issues with My Email Account, March 29, 2013 (2)
• Updates to the Instruction Manual, March 21, 2013 (14)
• Pics from Lafayette Workshop, March 19, 2013 (11)
• Accreditation Program for Hadar’s Clay™ Teachers, February 26, 2013 (19)
• Movement and Mechanisms - Call for Submissions and Workshop, February 17, 2013 (11)
• No Pre-firing for White Bronze; One More Update to the Manual, February 10, 2013 (16)
• Pictures from ArchiteXtural Intensives 2013, February 5, 2013 (6)
• Manual Updates and Changes, February 1, 2013 (9)
• One More Discovery, January 27, 2013 (22)
• Breakthrough in Firing Schedule - Further Tests, January 22, 2013 (5)
• Breakthrough in Firing Schedules, January 18, 2013 (23)
• Another Project for the ClayMill Extruder - Part III, January 13, 2013 (3)
• Free Project for the ClayMill Extruder - Part II, January 9, 2013 (8)
• Tips for Using the ClayMill Extruder:
  Part I, January 2, 2013 (7)
• Updates for the New Year, December 31, 2012 (4)
• ClayMill Metal Clay Extruder is Available at Last, November 28, 2012 (16)
• Holiday Project - Golden Spoon (and Fork), November 18, 2012 (9)
• New Use for White Bronze, November 11, 2012 (16)
• Now Available: Traditional (Flex) Brilliant Bronze, November 11, 2012 (7)
• 2013 Travel-teaching Schedule, November 1, 2012
• Oyumaru/Instant Mold and Images from a Workshop in Hamburg, October 15, 2012 (14)
• My New Book is Now Available, October 10, 2012 (3)
• Golden Threads - Free Project for Brilliant Bronze, September 24, 2012 (10)
• Brilliant Bronze Follow-up - How to Finish Fired Metal Clay, September 17, 2012 (12)
• Brilliant Bronze Is Now Available, September 15, 2012 (10)
• Which is the Gold Ring? - Brilliant Bronze Follow-Up, September 13, 2012 (17)
• Which is the Real Gold Ring?, September 12, 2012 (29)
• Second Free Project: Multicolor Lentil II, September 8, 2012 (12)
• Free Project: Multi-Color Lentil Earrings, September 4, 2012 (13)
• A Few Updates, September 3, 2012 (7)
• My New Book, August 21, 2012 (9)
• Architextural Jewelry Intensive, July 4, 2012 (4)
• Two Files Added to My Blog - Instruction Manual Updated, June 25, 2012 (5)
• What Clay to Use?, June 12, 2012 (21)
• Low Shrinkage Steel XT Now Available, June 11, 2012 (13)
• Workshops Update, May 29, 2012 (3)
• Two More Projects for Bronze XT, May 16, 2012 (5)
• Project for Bronze XT - Onlay, May 13, 2012 (1)
• Three Metals, One Shot: Bronze XT Now Available - Part 3, May 10, 2012 (5)
• Coming Soon! Bronze XT - Part 2, May 1, 2012 (14)
• Coming Soon! Bronze XT - Part 1, April 28, 2012 (9)
• Research Underway, April 13, 2012 (22)
• Firing in Layers Can Work, March 10, 2012 (27)
• Information About Two Upcoming Workshops, February 28, 2012
• Old Pearl Grey Steel is Back, February 22, 2012 (12)
• Flexible Clay, a Bigger Extruder, and Submissions for a New Book, February 12, 2012 (9)
• Report from Architectural Jewelry Workshop, January 13, 2012 (23)
• New Products and Updated Instruction Manual, January 1, 2012 (5)
• Project for the Holidays, December 20, 2011 (16)
• Combining the New Sterling Clay with Copper Clay, December 19, 2011 (15)
• Updates to My 2012 Class Schedule, December 1, 2011 (1)
• My 2012 Class Schedule, November 14, 2011 (2)
• Changes in Product Line, New Products, and New Distributors, November 8, 2011 (6)
• New Video - Shortening the Firing Time, November 3, 2011 (13)
• Hadar's Clay™ Sampler, October 6, 2011 (5)
• What a Bigger Extruder Can Do, October 4, 2011 (7)
• Shortening the Firing Time - Follow-Up, September 21, 2011 (41)
• Pre-Conference Class on Mokume-Gane Band Rings, September 14, 2011 (5)
• Shortening the Firing Time, September 13, 2011 (71)
• Notes About Upcoming Classes, September 8, 2011 (3)
• Upcoming Special Workshops in January-February 2012, August 21, 2011 (1)
• SpeedFire Cone System, August 16, 2011 (14)
• Pearl Grey Steel XT - Follow-up, August 5, 2011 (33)
• Introducing Pearl Grey Steel XT, July 24, 2011 (4)
• Rose Bronze Now Available, July 15, 2011 (23)
• My New Book is Now Available, July 6, 2011 (13)
• One Correction and Interesting News, June 25, 2011 (19)
• Instruction Manual Updated - June 2011, June 23, 2011 (16)
• My Fourth Book is Available for Pre-order, June 9, 2011 (7)
• Magnetic Clasp - Part 2, May 23, 2011 (5)
• Magnetic Clasp from Metal Clay, Part 1 - Free Project, May 15, 2011 (15)
• NY Workshop and New Video Clip, May 3, 2011 (7)
• Follow-up on Mokume-Gane with Copper and Silver, April 23, 2011 (8)
• Bead Extruder, April 18, 2011
• Sterling Silver Clay, Copper Clay, and Mokume-Gane, April 4, 2011 (3)
• Copper and Silver Mokume-gane from Metal Clay, April 2, 2011 (3)
• Sterling Silver with Hadar's Clay™ Quick-fire Copper, March 31, 2011 (12)
• Call for Entries, March 14, 2011 (8)
• Shortening the Time Between Phases - Follow-up, March 2, 2011 (9)
• Shortening the Wait Time Between Firing Phases, February 26, 2011 (14)
• Updated Instruction Manual and a New Workshop, February 22, 2011 (2)
• Firing Issues, February 11, 2011 (47)
• Back from Mexico, February 4, 2011 (11)
• Travel-Teaching Schedule Updates and Carbon/Kiln Logistics, January 15, 2011 (3)
• Photos from January 2011 Intensive, January 14, 2011 (22)
• How to Make Rose Gold Color in Metal Clay, January 9, 2011 (22)
• New Classes in 2011, January 6, 2011 (3)
• A Wish Come True, December 10, 2010 (26)
• In the Spirit of Thanksgiving, November 27, 2010 (11)
• Updates, November 14, 2010 (1)
• Home-Made Extruder and Discs, November 14, 2010 (5)
• Class Updates, a Dress, and New Mokume-gane, November 7, 2010 (15)
• Answers to Some Questions, November 2, 2010 (5)
• The Book is Here!, November 1, 2010 (1)
• Intensive Workshops at my Studio, October 31, 2010 (1)
• Four Clays in One Firing, October 26, 2010 (14)
• More Mokume-gane and a Redesigned Website, October 22, 2010 (4)
• Instruction Manual Updated, October 11, 2010 (5)
• Storage of Mixed Clay,
  and More about the Compatibility of Pearl Grey Steel, October 8, 2010 (4)
• We Made the Kiln
  Work for Us, October 5, 2010 (7)
• Good News about Pearl Grey Steel, and Gradient Surfaces, September 19, 2010 (13)
• Second Edition of My First Book, and Some New Work, September 12, 2010 (10)
• An Update to My Travel-Teaching Schedule, September 1, 2010
• "Mini-kilns" - Even Better, August 29, 2010 (34)
• Little Boxes, August 26, 2010 (16)
• Please Make Us a Box!, August 13, 2010 (25)
• Compatibility Chart for Firing Different Clays Together, July 21, 2010 (10)
• Pearl Grey Steel Clay is Now Available, June 18, 2010 (9)
• Additions and Corrections to My Travel-Teaching Schedule, June 12, 2010 (7)
• Three Metals, One Firing, June 7, 2010 (14)
• My First Book, June 4, 2010 (4)
• Updates, and Pearl-grey Steel Clay, May 22, 2010 (15)
• Update to Firing Schedule of White Bronze, May 5, 2010 (15)
• The Sintering Bracelet Project, April 28, 2010 (7)
• Firing at High Altitudes - and a Project for White Bronze, Copper, and Bronze Clay, April 18, 2010 (3)
• What is the Correct Firing Temperature?, April 13, 2010 (10)
• Troubleshooting Copper, April 7, 2010 (5)
• White Bronze Clay is Now Available, March 31, 2010 (15)
• Improving Your Torch-firing Results, March 24, 2010 (6)
• Understanding Metal Clay and the Firing Process, March 22, 2010 (10)
• Introducing White Bronze - Continued, March 16, 2010 (16)
• Introducing Hadar's Clay™ - White Bronze, March 14, 2010 (35)
• Podcast, March 12, 2010 (1)
• Which Carbon to Use?, March 2, 2010 (9)
• Starting and Finishing Firing in a Hot Kiln, March 2, 2010 (3)
• Removing Fire Scale, February 12, 2010 (7)
• More Options for Firing Copper, February 12, 2010
• Workshop in The Netherlands, February 12, 2010
• Instruction Manuals Updated, February 7, 2010
• How to Make a User-friendly Firing Box, February 6, 2010 (6)
• Make Your Own Shibuichi Clay, February 6, 2010 (25)
• New Firing Method - Continued, February 3, 2010 (13)
• Workshop in France and other Scheduling Issues, February 2, 2010
• New Firing Method, January 31, 2010 (11)
• Workshop In NY, January 20, 2010 (10)
• Instruction Manual Updated, January 16, 2010 (2)
• Rethinking the Firing Pan, January 16, 2010 (6)
• Photos and Discoveries from Phoenix Workshop, January 16, 2010 (6)
• Quick-fire Steel Clays, December 31, 2009 (5)
• Instruction Manuals for Hadar's Clay in French, December 29, 2009 (4)
• Updates to Travel-teaching Schedule, December 28, 2009
• Torch-firing Hadar's Clay™ - Quick-fire Copper, December 13, 2009 (20)
• Update to the Firing Schedule of Quick-fire Copper and Quick-fire Bronze, December 8, 2009 (6)
• NEW: Hadar's Clay™ Quick-fire Bronze, December 6, 2009 (3)
• NEW: Hadar's Clay™ Quick-fire Copper, December 4, 2009 (10)
• Steel Clay is Available, November 29, 2009 (4)
• Workshop in France, November 27, 2009 (3)
• Steel Clay Updates, November 18, 2009 (12)
• Improved Formula for Hadar's Clay™, November 9, 2009
• Compatibility of Steel Clay with other Metal Clays, November 6, 2009 (16)
• Stainless Steel Clay, October 30, 2009 (4)
• Toolkit for my Workshops, October 27, 2009
• What is this blog about?, October 24, 2009 (15)
• Steel Clay, October 24, 2009 (37)
• My Book Has Arrived!, October 19, 2009 (7)
• Free Project: Tricky Balled-up Ear Wires, October 18, 2009 (5)
• Back from Australia, October 14, 2009 (12)
• Workshop in the UK, September 22, 2009 (2)
• My New Book, September 16, 2009 (3)
• This and That Before Leaving for Australia, September 15, 2009 (7)
• The Story of Gourdelia, August 29, 2009 (19)
• A Heartwarming Surprise, August 22, 2009 (3)
• Sintering Issues, August 12, 2009 (6)
• Photos from My Workshop in Rhode Island, August 9, 2009 (9)
• Patina Revisited and a Source for Lids, July 21, 2009 (1)
• Photos from a Workshop in San Diego, July 8, 2009 (9)
• Photography Tip (Continued), July 5, 2009 (5)
• Photography Tip, July 5, 2009 (11)
• Questions about the "Collage Pendant" and "Fused Glass" Postings, June 28, 2009 (3)
• Using Fused Glass with Metal Clay, June 26, 2009 (11)
• How to Begin?, June 26, 2009 (5)
• Third Rock (Free Project), June 21, 2009 (4)
• Addition to My Travel-Teaching Schedule, June 4, 2009 (1)
• Enameling on Hadar's Clay™, May 27, 2009 (20)
• Creating an Alloy by Mixing Silver Clay and Copper Clay, May 25, 2009 (11)
• My Next Book, May 17, 2009 (13)
• My Second Big Piece, May 13, 2009 (7)
• Instruction Manual for Hadar's Clay™, May 8, 2009 (8)
• What is this blog about?, May 2, 2009
• Another Project Translated to Bronze and Copper Clay, April 25, 2009 (1)
• My First Huge Piece in Bronze and Copper Clay, April 20, 2009 (19)
• Landscape Earrings Project and More, April 16, 2009 (4)
• Concentric Circles Project, April 14, 2009 (2)
• Project: Images in Bronze and Copper Clay, April 9, 2009 (4)
• Testing the Strength of Fired Pieces, April 2, 2009 (16)
• Archive, April 1, 2009
• Combining Bronze and Copper Clay, March 31, 2009 (2)
• Bronze and Copper Clay are Compatible!, March 25, 2009 (9)
• Gallery, March 24, 2009
• About Core Material, March 22, 2009 (2)
• Flexible Clay, March 22, 2009 (10)
• About Repair, March 22, 2009 (2)
• Combining Silver and Copper Clay, March 20, 2009 (5)
• Copper Clay Project: Cinnamon Stick Earrings, March 16, 2009 (1)
• Using Copper Wire, March 16, 2009 (4)
• Bronze/Copper Clay - My Work, March 14, 2009
• More About Patina, March 14, 2009 (4)
• About the Carbon, March 13, 2009 (5)
• About Patina, March 13, 2009 (1)
• Powder Metallurgy, March 8, 2009 (4)
• Books, March 4, 2009
• The Firing Box, March 3, 2009 (7)
• Website, March 1, 2009 (1)
• What This Blog is About, February 28, 2009 (32)