{"id":5460,"date":"2012-09-15T20:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/?p=5460"},"modified":"2023-02-22T14:36:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T22:36:27","slug":"brilliant-bronze-is-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/15\/brilliant-bronze-is-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Brilliant Bronze Is Now Available"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Hadar’s Clay\u2122 quick-fire Brilliant Bronze (golden color bronze) is now available on my Online Store<\/a>. Since Brilliant Bronze works pretty much like quick-fire bronze, I have not updated the instruction manual; instead, there is a link to Instructions for Hadar’s Clay\u2122 Brilliant Bronze in the right-hand pane of this blog. It’s only one page, which you can print out and add to your printed instruction manual for Hadar’s Clay.<\/del> Instructions for Hadar’s Clay\u2122 Brilliant Bronze have now been incorporated in the latest version of the Instruction Manual.<\/font><\/p>\n

Flat pieces of Brilliant Bronze shrink 23.5%; rings shrink 2\u00bd sizes.<\/p>\n

Please be sure to make test pieces. If you see ant blistering on smooth pieces, drop the temperature by 5-10\u00b0F (3-6\u00b0C). This won’t have any effect on the sintering of other metals that are fired in the same piece.<\/p>\n

Brilliant Bronze can be combined with other metals, just like regular bronze. For details, please refer to the documents Introduction to Mixed Metal Clays<\/a> and Which Clays to Use and When<\/a>, linked in the right-hand pane of this blog.<\/p>\n

All the projects in my upcoming book, Metal Clay Practice<\/a>,<\/em> can be made with either regular bronze or Brilliant Bronze.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here are some more samples:<\/p>\n

\"Cracks<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I had to make this one again with black star diopside.<\/p>\n

\"Wedding<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Wedding<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Eggshell<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Holey<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Holes\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Wire<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The ring above, which looks like it’s wrapped with wire, is only a texture. Look it up in The Handbook of Metal Clay: Textures and Forms<\/em><\/a>, second edition, p. 48.<\/p>\n

\"Ball<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Solid balls from Brilliant Bronze and low-shrinkage Steel XT,<\/em> with gold wire balled up at the ends. For instructions on how to make the balled-up wires invisible see my book Mixed Metal Jewelry from Metal Clay<\/a>,<\/em> p. 18.<\/p>\n

\"Necklace\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Necklace<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Bead necklace from Brilliant Bronze, White Bronze, and low-shrinkage Steel XT<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Twist<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Mokume-gane style earrings from copper, low-shrinkage Steel XT,<\/em> and Brilliant Bronze.<\/p>\n

\"Stack\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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

\"Flared\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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

Hadar’s Clay\u2122 quick-fire Brilliant Bronze (golden color bronze) is now available on my Online Store. Since Brilliant Bronze works pretty much like quick-fire bronze, I have not updated the instruction manual; instead, there is a link to Instructions for Hadar’s Clay\u2122 Brilliant Bronze in the right-hand pane of this blog. It’s only one page, which […]<\/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\/5460"}],"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=5460"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9415,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5460\/revisions\/9415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}