{"id":8630,"date":"2015-10-06T22:07:37","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T06:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/?p=8630"},"modified":"2023-02-22T14:36:20","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T22:36:20","slug":"one-fire-flex-pearl-grey-steel-is-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/06\/one-fire-flex-pearl-grey-steel-is-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"One-fire Flex Pearl Grey Steel is Now Available!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One-fire Flex Pearl Grey Steel is now available on our <a href=\"http:\/\/store.artinsilver.com\/cosoonpegrst.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online store<\/a>. This completes the release process of the <a href=\"http:\/\/store.artinsilver.com\/onflcl.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One-fire Flex Clays<\/a>, which include One-fire Flex Copper, Brilliant Bronze, Dark Champagne Bronze, Rose Bronze, White Bronze, Low-shrinkage Steel <em>XT<\/em>, White Satin, and Pearl Grey Steel.<\/p>\n<p>Please download the <a href=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/One-fire-clays_instruction_manual.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instruction Manual for One-fire Clays<\/a> by clicking on the link in this sentence, or directly from the right-hand panel of my blog. The instructions for One-fire Flex clays are on pp. 7-8. <\/p>\n<p>One-fire Flex Pearl Grey Steel works best in combination with other metals (One-fire Bronze or Brilliant Bronze and one-fire Copper) for color effects (caning, mokume-gane, and gradients). The photos below show One-fire Flex Pearl Grey Steel as part of a gradient surface, fired at mid-fire schedule. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  aligncenter size-full wp-image-8631\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/t-PG-grdient-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/t-PG-grdient-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"571\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8631\" srcset=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/t-PG-grdient-1.jpg 471w, http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/t-PG-grdient-1-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  aligncenter size-full wp-image-8636\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/t-PG-gradient-23.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/t-PG-gradient-23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"484\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8636\" srcset=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/t-PG-gradient-23.jpg 556w, http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/t-PG-gradient-23-257x300.jpg 257w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The following photos show One-fire Flex Pearl Grey Steel fired in a stripe pattern with One-fire Copper and Brilliant Bronze at mid-fire schedule.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  aligncenter size-full wp-image-8638\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/t-Stripes-positive1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/t-Stripes-positive1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"395\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8638\" srcset=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/t-Stripes-positive1.jpg 648w, http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/t-Stripes-positive1-300x286.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  aligncenter size-full wp-image-8637\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/t-Stripes-negative.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/t-Stripes-negative.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"366\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8637\" srcset=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/t-Stripes-negative.jpg 648w, http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/t-Stripes-negative-300x264.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Information about creating patterns of color such as canning, mokume-gane, stripes and gradients can be found in my books <a href=\"http:\/\/store.artinsilver.com\/cosopaofcoin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patterns of Color in Metal Clay<\/a> and  <a href=\"http:\/\/store.artinsilver.com\/cosomeclpr.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Metal Clay Practice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One-fire Flex Pearl Grey Steel can also be fired on its own at 1750\u00b0F but will be too hard to bend and drill. To fire steel on its own it is recommended to use Low-shrinkage Steel <em>XT<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One-fire Flex Pearl Grey Steel is now available on our online store. This completes the release process of the One-fire Flex Clays, which include One-fire Flex Copper, Brilliant Bronze, Dark Champagne Bronze, Rose Bronze, White Bronze, Low-shrinkage Steel XT, White Satin, and Pearl Grey Steel. Please download the Instruction Manual for One-fire Clays by clicking [&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\/8630"}],"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=8630"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9324,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8630\/revisions\/9324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}