How do I joint silver wire and silver precious metal clay in jewelry making?
I’m new to jewelery making and I’m trying to create a necklace that will be made mostly of 18 gauge dead soft silver wire. I’d like to add some other bits like tiny hearts and flowers and thought the precious metal clay would be the easiest way to sculpt those parts. I’ll be using a butane torch to solder the wire parts but how do I go about joining the clay bits once they are fired? Will I need solder or flux?
I don’t know the answer to that for sure, but after it’s cured and cleaned, Precious Metal Clay (and Art Clay Silver) are pure silver. so I’d guess you could use whatever you’d normally use for that. There may be some differences though with the various versions of PMC, etc, though?
If you don’t get a good answer here, you should check out one of the sites for PMC (or Art Clay) and/or ask in their forums.
You can find links for those sites on this page at my website:
http://glassattic.com/polymer/Characteristics.htm
(… click on *Metal Clays* at the end of that list at the top of the page to jump down to the category on metal clays)
HTH,
Diane B.
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