{"id":2408,"date":"2010-02-07T19:00:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T03:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/?p=2408"},"modified":"2023-02-22T14:36:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T22:36:33","slug":"instruction-manuals-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/07\/instruction-manuals-updated\/","title":{"rendered":"Instruction Manuals Updated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the discoveries that were discussed in the last posting regarding the firing method, the instruction manuals for Quick-fire Copper, Bronze, and Steel have now been updated. They can be downloaded from the right-hand pane of this blog. The date on the top of the front page of each document is 2\/6\/10.<\/p>\n<p>I tested this firing method with steel clay (not stainless). I fired in a fiber blanket box at 1800\u00b0F\/982\u00b0C in my top loader kiln (1880\u00b0F\/1026\u00b0C in a front loader kiln). The total firing time was 2 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Pieces shrank some more (about 20%) and were easier to clean up. The surface was textured with a subtle texture of fine sandpaper. With some buffing with a coarse mini-fiber wheel they became shiny. I liked them as they were, so I did not follow up with sanding. That was the easiest finishing job I ever did.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2409\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/t-Foldi-earings-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/t-Foldi-earings-1-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"t-Foldi earings 1\" title=\"t-Foldi earings 1\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2409\" srcset=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/t-Foldi-earings-1-300x210.jpg 300w, http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/t-Foldi-earings-1.jpg 504w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>So, I may bring some steel clay to my next travel-teaching workshops. It seems that we may have time to play with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the discoveries that were discussed in the last posting regarding the firing method, the instruction manuals for Quick-fire Copper, Bronze, and Steel have now been updated. They can be downloaded from the right-hand pane of this blog. The date on the top of the front page of each document is 2\/6\/10. I tested this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9238,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions\/9238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}