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Firing Disaster Continues

Still not having much luck with the firing. As a recap, I planned to refire a number of pieces of bronze clay which were under-fired first time around. In the same tub I included two copper clay “bags”.
This is the schedule I used.

Ramp: 253 F per hour (137 C)
Target (Hold) Temperature: 1530 F (830 C)
Hold [...]

Firing Disaster

As I mentioned in a previous post, these holidays I have been working my way through Hadar Jacobson’s books. I put quite a bit of work into two bracelets and they came out look like this! I wanted to give up metal clay completely. A week later I think I can talk about it… and [...]