{"id":354,"date":"2014-03-14T15:06:08","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T15:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katieluper.com\/?p=354"},"modified":"2014-03-14T15:06:08","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T15:06:08","slug":"metal-clay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/?p=354","title":{"rendered":"Metal Clay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I took a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metal_clay\">metal clay<\/a> class at the <a href=\"http:\/\/dallasmakerspace.org\/\">Dallas Makerspace<\/a>. Metal clay is basically around 90% of the metal you desire (bronze, copper and silver are all examples) and 10% organic binder and some water. You shape the metal clay into whatever shape or size you want (with a few limitations), let it dry and then fire the clay.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/katieluper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/photo-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-355\" alt=\"photo (5)\" src=\"http:\/\/katieluper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/photo-5-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/photo-5-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/katieluper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/photo-5-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/katieluper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/photo-5-900x675.jpg 900w, https:\/\/katieluper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/photo-5.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Firing the copper and bronze clay requires a kiln to maintain a temperature for a longer period of time, but the neat thing about the silver clay we were using was that it could be fired with a simple butane torch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/katieluper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/photo-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-356\" alt=\"photo (4)\" src=\"http:\/\/katieluper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/photo-4-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/photo-4-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/katieluper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/photo-4-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/katieluper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/photo-4-900x1200.jpg 900w, https:\/\/katieluper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/photo-4.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The class at the makerspace was taught by Jenny Vestal, who also teaches an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craftsy.com\/class\/torch-fired-precious-metal-clay\/108\">online course on the subject on Craftsy.com<\/a>. We made some simple charms to begin with, and we were given extensive instructions for further projects. Here are the earrings I made!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/katieluper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/photo-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-357\" alt=\"photo (3)\" src=\"http:\/\/katieluper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/photo-3-222x300.jpg\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/photo-3-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/katieluper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/photo-3-760x1024.jpg 760w, https:\/\/katieluper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/photo-3-900x1212.jpg 900w, https:\/\/katieluper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/photo-3.jpg 1535w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have a few fun ideas for some electrical engineering themed pieces. Transistor symbol keychain anyone??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I took a metal clay class at the Dallas Makerspace. Metal clay is basically around 90% of the metal you desire (bronze, copper and silver are all examples) and 10% organic binder and some water. You shape the metal clay into whatever shape or size you want (with a few limitations), let it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/?p=354\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Metal Clay&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360,"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}