[Jewelry making - Article 00772] - Re: [Orchid] Article: Minimal Metalsmithing

[SusanThornton]

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Hello All,

    I ordered a disc or coin shaped piece of fired metal clay with a
    decorative front and a plain back. I wanted to use it in an project I
    was doing and i don't work in metal clay but I wanted the unusual
    textural element. I received it and then I started to gently shape it
    (I was going to create a SLIGHT dome to the disc) a bit, as I thought
    I probably could, and the disc broke and crumbled into 3 pieces. The
    core of the disc didn't look like silver, it had a pale khaki color.
    I took one of the pieces and balled it up and it was really acting
    much different from the milled products I am accustomed to. When I
    drilled into it it powdered up instead of creating the swirly strips
    drilling usually produces. I think my experience was odd and could
    anyone tell me why these things happened if it supposed to be fine
    silver ? 

Susan

 
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