[Jewelry making - Article 00474] - Re: [Orchid] Article: Minimal Metalsmithing

[Carla M. Fox]

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>     I suspect the entire meta clay trip will be a fad that will just go
>     away in a few years after the market becomes saturated with PMC and
>     art clay objects, that if were as you say, would be being bought up
>     for little money and remelted, but again, that is not possible.. 

    There is currently a locked thread on the Warm Glass Forum (fused
    glass) because of an heated argument over cheap fused glass
    pendents. The main issue was someone saw no problem with producing
    cheap, glued together pendents and lowered her prices mid-show to
    undercut the other fused glass pendent vendor next to her. 

    Bottom line: Dichroic glass pendents have saturated the art & craft
    scene. Buyers, gallery owners, show directors, are tired of them.
    Glass pendents have been done by hobbyists as well as well-trained
    professionals, but they have been done to death, with little
    imagination and skill, glued-on findings, and the public is no
    longer buying them. The Chinese are now also making them. 

    I suspect what RE sez is true, unless things change substantially.
    Anything that is as easy as pmc claims and is sold to hobbyists can
    eventually shoot itself in the foot. I have looked at length at the
    images of pmc presented in a recent magazine. They are of tower
    rings. For the life of me I can't see the appeal. The edges are
    rough, the slip shows & looks like a pitted badly executed solder, it
    looks like clay. But that is me. PMC doesn't threaten my livelihood
    anymore then dichroic glass pendents did. But if it is being done so
    poorly that it falls apart and doesn't last......the buying public
    will soon be wary of it-just as they are of glass jewelry. 

Carla
www.carlamfox.com
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