{"id":5824,"date":"2012-11-11T18:57:17","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T02:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/?p=5824"},"modified":"2023-02-22T14:36:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T22:36:26","slug":"new-use-for-white-bronze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/11\/new-use-for-white-bronze\/","title":{"rendered":"New Use for White Bronze"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is something I should have thought of long ago. In all my instructions for using White Bronze in combination with other metals I said that the other metals have to be fired first, then White Bronze has to be added in a MECHANICAL WAY and then fired again at low-fire schedule.<\/p>\n

That is still true, but there is an easier way. You can make the whole piece out of higher firing clays, and then paint White Bronze on parts of it.<\/p>\n

I was looking at an old piece of mine that I made when only bronze and copper clay were available. Now that we have so many more options, it looked boring to me.<\/p>\n

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

I made some paste from White Bronze, and painted the roofs and the road with it.<\/p>\n

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

I let it dry, and repeated this three more times, just like we used to do with gold on silver. <\/p>\n

I recreated the texture on the road, using a needle tool.<\/p>\n

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

Then I fired it for one hour, no pre-firing, at low-fire schedule<\/strong>. I sanded the roofs with 220- and 400-grit sandpaper. The White Bronze did not come off.<\/p>\n

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

I recently made this ring from Brilliant Bronze.<\/p>\n

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

I painted the roof with 4 layers of White Bronze paste.<\/p>\n

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

Fired 1 hour, no pre-firing, at low-fire schedule. The White Bronze picked up the texture of the Brilliant Bronze underneath, so I just buffed it and left it not sanded. <\/p>\n

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

This works with copper and all types of Quick-fire Bronze. It does not work with steel, since the temperature is not high enough for the two metals to fuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is something I should have thought of long ago. In all my instructions for using White Bronze in combination with other metals I said that the other metals have to be fired first, then White Bronze has to be added in a MECHANICAL WAY and then fired again at low-fire schedule. That is still […]<\/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\/5824"}],"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=5824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9407,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5824\/revisions\/9407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}