Kind of Strange

As a bit of an experiment with bronz metal clay I wanted to try something a bit less abstract to see what the results were.  I took the earlier design of Happy Fox and applied it to this material, trying to adjust for shrinkage rates and some of the quirks I’ve seen with the Bronz.

The result:

Some notes:

• Bronz clay is trickier to use when attempting a very specific, outlined piece.  It’s stickier in nature than PMC3, which makes it harder to move pieces around before they’ve dried more, which presents its own difficulties.
• When firing a piece, put the side you want to have a smoother surface face down in the carbon.  The bit facing up appears to suffer from far more ‘bubbles’ and other surface distortions.  These can be sanded and polished down, but it can be a pain.
• Dichroic glass should really be bezeled in after firing.  While it doesn’t reach melting temp in the kiln, it distorts, changes color, etc.  I have very little experience using glass outside of firing with PMC, so this was news to me.
• Rubberized sanding wheel + Bronz metal clay = fantastic

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