{"id":624,"date":"2009-03-22T13:48:40","date_gmt":"2009-03-22T21:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/?p=624"},"modified":"2023-02-22T14:36:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T22:36:37","slug":"about-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/22\/about-repair\/","title":{"rendered":"About Repair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silver clay is easy to repair. The fresh low-shrinkage clay applied to fired silver seems to stick pretty well. This is not the case with bronze and copper clay. Fresh clay doesn&#8217;t stick, and if it does, once it&#8217;s dry it tends to separate and peel off. So here is what I&#8217;ve found:<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><strong>Applying the Clay<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>Spit helps to adhere fresh clay to fired clay. Place some saliva on the spot to be repaired and the clay will stick and won&#8217;t peel off when it&#8217;s dry. You can smooth the repaired area with some saliva on you finger, but please, if there&#8217;s clay on your finger, don&#8217;t put it back in your mouth!<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><strong>Firing<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>When you do a small repair, the first phase of firing can be replaced with torch firing. Fire the repaired area with a torch for about 30 seconds, then move on to the second phase. That saves a lot of time and energy. You can put aside a few pieces that need repair, torch fire them and then fire them together according to the directions for the second phase of the firing schedule.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  aligncenter size-medium wp-image-625\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/t-repair.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/t-repair.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Repair\" width=\"216\" height=\"150\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-625\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<!--subscribe2--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silver clay is easy to repair. The fresh low-shrinkage clay applied to fired silver seems to stick pretty well. This is not the case with bronze and copper clay. Fresh clay doesn&#8217;t stick, and if it does, once it&#8217;s dry it tends to separate and peel off. So here is what I&#8217;ve found: Applying the [&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\/624"}],"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=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9298,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions\/9298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}