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 Using
this exciting fine silver clay material to make jewellery, you will learn
the techniques to model it, sculpt, texture, pierce, stamp, engrave, cut or
tear, join or assemble separate pieces of it, then texture and fire it.
PMC3 can even set stones or can be oxidized. Finally you can choose mat
finish or burnishing to high gloss finish.
By the end of the course and following our projects you will have finished ready to wear Jewellery
pieces. You
can choose your own design, brooch, ring, earrings, hair pin, lucky charm,
pendant, silver bead etc.
 The course will
teach you how to use effectively the various silver clay products, the clay
type,
the silver paste type, the silver clay syringe type, how to use the brush, to come up
with fascinating designs and jewellery.
You will be learning how to create hollow
jewellery (see earring picture above), natural forms jewellery, (see the
leaf picture on the right), or other exciting projects using the brush
(see the flower photo on the bottom right)
A brief explanation -
What is PMC3? / Silver Art Clay
Precious
Metal Clay is a patented material developed in the early 1990s by
Mitsubishi Materials Corporation of Japan
The PMC3
material after fired may be hallmarked and will assay as .999 pure silver.
It uses particles that are even smaller than silver dust. To give you an
idea, it would take as many as 25 of these particles to make up a single
grain of table salt. This dense packing allows this material to fuse at
(relatively) very low temperatures, (1290°F) which not only allows implants
but means alternative, low-tech firing devices become possible.
Metal clay is really an amazing art material which is made of three
ingredients: water, an organic binder, and pure metal particles of either
silver or gold. The particles of binder and metal are so fine only a few
microns in diameter. Before you fire the metal clay, it is a soft material,
which you can manipulate just like other clays. Roll it out or model it,
pierce, stamp it, engrave it, cut it, or tear it, join or assemble separate
pieces of it, then texture and fire it! What’s more, with the metal clay
in its unfired form, you have minimum amount of wasted precious metal, any
leftovers, filings etc, can be re-used. Simply add some water to make it
moisture and soft again!! |
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Extending the Use of PMC into other jewellery making techniques
After forming and sculpturing you can wear PMC3 finished pieces as-fired
or in addition you can also apply the different finishing techniques by
joining our
Silversmithing Fine Jewellery Design and
Making Course
such as:
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Soldering your PMC3 item to a chain, add the hinges or some other part of
findings to develop different items and to make more fascinating pieces of
jewellery.
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Although with PMC3 you can set gemstones in the kiln, some stones cannot
be fired because of their properties and hardness and cannot withstand
high temperatures so they cannot be placed inside the kiln. In these
cases the bezel would need to be created before hand, using traditional
Silversmithing skills or buy a ready made one. This way you can get the perfect setting
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When
the PMC3 item has been fired, you can add more texturing by using sand
blasting, wire blasting techniques to get the special effect or by using
proper polishing method to get a high gloss finish.
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Add unlimited colours to your jewellery by joining our
enamel course
You can add opaque or transparent colours
In what other ways can you combine your PMC3 item?
You can combine your PMC3, pendant, clasp, bead, brooch and other items.
Jewellery produced using PMC3 can be easily combined with semi-precious
stones in our
Bead Jewellery Design and Making course
Through our course projects you can experience the exciting colour of
semi-precious gemstone and silver finding and how to turn you dream design
into reality.
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