{"id":2571,"date":"2010-03-16T16:24:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T00:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/?p=2571"},"modified":"2023-02-22T14:36:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T22:36:33","slug":"introducing-white-bronze-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/16\/introducing-white-bronze-continued\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing White Bronze – Continued"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is a report on my further testing of White Bronze clay.<\/p>\n

1. I’ve been asked how White Bronze reacts to patina<\/strong>. You can see the result in the photo below.<\/p>\n

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2. How well does it pick up textures<\/strong>? I tried to make my Collage of Textures pendant (first project in the my first book) with White Bronze. It reacts well with liver of sulfur and seems to pick up textures very well.<\/p>\n

\"Before<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>

Before Firing<\/p><\/div>\n

\"After<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>

After Firing<\/p><\/div>\n

3. Smooth\/matte\/satin finish<\/strong>. Achieving these finishes was no harder than with silver, copper or bronze clay.<\/p>\n

\"t-Earrings2\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

4. Combining copper with White Bronze.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"t-Rock\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"t-2<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

5. Reaction with bronze.<\/strong> I fired both bronze and White Bronze on a copper piece, without sealing the bronze as I would have done with silver. Both sintered, and there was no alloying or change in color.<\/p>\n

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The following bead has been waiting for this moment for about two years. I fired the copper and the bronze with the intention of adding silver to the bottom part. It was just then that I found out about the reaction of silver and bronze (you can read all about it in my second book), so I stopped working on the bead.<\/p>\n

\"t-3-tone<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"t-3-tone<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

6. Sticking to copper and bronze.<\/strong> Since the firing temperature of copper and bronze is higher than that of White Bronze, copper and bronze need to be fired first. I placed an unfired piece of White Bronze on a fired piece of copper and a fired piece of bronze, and re-fired.<\/p>\n

\"t-Sticking\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The results were inconsistent. I repeated it a few times and sometimes they stuck, sometimes they didn’t, regardless of whether it was copper or bronze. My guess is that they will stick if there is a way of creating some pressure between them. The following test supports this hunch. It seems that the pressure of the carbon on the piece was not enough.<\/p>\n

7. Inlay.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"White<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>

White Bronze in copper<\/p><\/div>\n

\"White<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>

White Bronze in bronze<\/p><\/div>\n

The following photo shows side by side inlay of White Bronze in copper (R) and inlay of copper in bronze (L).<\/p>\n

\"Color<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>

Color comparison<\/p><\/div>\n

As you can see, the contrast between bronze and White Bronze doesn’t seem very sharp. Over time it may improve when the bronze yellows some more. White Bronze has not changed in color so far.<\/p>\n

The inlay pieces above were only partially successful. In the center of the pieces the metals bonded well with each other. On the peripheries some of the inlay chipped off and required repair and re-firing. It seems that on the peripheries the pressure is lower than in the center.<\/p>\n

In the following piece I avoided inlaying the White Bronze on the borders of the piece. The bonding was fine.<\/p>\n

\"t-Inlay\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is a report on my further testing of White Bronze clay. 1. I’ve been asked how White Bronze reacts to patina. You can see the result in the photo below. 2. How well does it pick up textures? I tried to make my Collage of Textures pendant (first project in the my first book) […]<\/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\/2571"}],"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=2571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9230,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions\/9230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}