Precious Metal Clay Jewelry Projects

For many jewelry makers who have dreamed of working with metal but have had nightmares about using the torch metal clay also called precious metal clay pmc and art clay may be their dream come true.

Precious metal clay jewelry projects.

Making jewelry with metal clay combines the accessibility of clay with the look feel and value of precious metals and non precious metals alike. It is a very user friendly material. But there are a few different ways both direct and indirect to harvest the fingerprint and impress it into the clay and each has advantages and. You can mold it stamp it shape it file it carve it glaze it and texture it while it s in its clay like form.

Are you interested in working with precious metal clay pmc art clay silver pmc gold art clay gold aura 22 etc or in buying jewelry or other items created with metal clay. Precious metal clay pmc developed in the 1990s by the mitsubishi materials corporation is actually powdered metal suspended in a clay like binding medium. In this tutorial you ll find four metal clay jewelry making projects that demonstrate how to combine different metal clays work with metal clay and wire wrapping make earrings pins and rings and use silver copper bronze and steel metal clays. In my experience all metal clays types can take fingerprints beautifully.

The real trick to making fingerprint jewelry in metal clay is getting a clean detailed print impressed into the clay. This is a great first project for those wanting to explore precious metal clay. Keep in mind that while you don t need to use a torch to necessarily solder metals together it can be helpful to know a little about metal work in order to clean and finish metal clay pieces. The project can be made with any form of pmc or art clay silver lump clay and can.