{"id":6486,"date":"2013-04-02T17:40:31","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T01:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/?p=6486"},"modified":"2023-02-22T14:36:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T22:36:25","slug":"free-project-bulls-eye-earrings-without-caning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/02\/free-project-bulls-eye-earrings-without-caning\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Project – Bulls Eye Earrings Without Caning"},"content":{"rendered":"

These bulls eye earrings are made without using a jellyroll or an extruder, but with a technique called “onlay,” which I am currently working on with my first group of accredited teachers for Hadar’s Clay. <\/p>\n

Materials: Quick-fire copper, quick-fire bronze, and Low-shrinkage Steel XT<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Special tools: you will need a few square cutter tubes in different sizes. Any other shape will do as well.<\/p>\n

1. Roll a large layer of copper clay, 8 cards thick.<\/p>\n

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2. Roll a layer of bronze, 2 cards thick.<\/p>\n

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3. With the biggest square cutter, cut two squares off of the bronze layer.<\/p>\n

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4. Lay the squares on top of the copper layer, at a significant distance from each other (you are making both earrings at the same time).<\/p>\n

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5. Using a glass or clear plastic board, press on both squares until they are flush with the copper layer.<\/p>\n

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6. Remove the board. You can smooth the surface gently with your fingers.<\/p>\n

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7. Cut two smaller squares from a 2-card layer of steel. Place them on top of the bronze squares.<\/p>\n

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8. Repeat step 5 with the board.<\/p>\n

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9. Repeat step 7 and 8 with smaller copper squares.<\/p>\n

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10. And again, with smaller bronze squares.<\/p>\n

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

11. And last, with smaller steel squares.<\/p>\n

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

12. Cut the copper backing layer into equal squares.<\/p>\n

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

13. Insert a bronze embeddable at the top of each earring.<\/p>\n

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

14. Dry, then sand lightly, since the onlays are very thin now. Fire at mid-fire schedule.
\n15. finish the earring following the instructions in the document entitled “Finishing Fired Metal Clay,” available on the right-hand pane of my blog.<\/p>\n

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These bulls eye earrings are made without using a jellyroll or an extruder, but with a technique called “onlay,” which I am currently working on with my first group of accredited teachers for Hadar’s Clay. Materials: Quick-fire copper, quick-fire bronze, and Low-shrinkage Steel XT. Special tools: you will need a few square cutter tubes in […]<\/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\/6486"}],"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=6486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9393,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6486\/revisions\/9393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}