How To Make Findings With Silver Clay

[@milouschmidt]

This series is great. Easy to follow, step by step with good image resolution it is all great thank you ❤

[@cooksongold]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@annacretu2595]

What do you use to keep metal from sticking to your fingers?🫶🙏

[@cooksongold]

Balm www.cooksongold.com/Precious-Metal-Clay/Metal-Clay-Balm-prcode-700-576

[@annacretu2595]

@@cooksongoldthank you ❤

[@lieslroos1449]

Loving your videos! Is it possible to turn the metal clay into a casting slip? Thanks😊😊

[@cooksongold]

Sian says: "Thank you! So you can buy silver clay slip/paste or make it by adding water to silver clay. This paste is great to join pieces of silver clay together. I'm not sure if you could cast with it, I've tried it in a mould before and it didn't work but I know when you cast ceramic clay slip in a plaster mould the mould draws out the moisture and the clay then goes almost leather hard. It could be quite costly to try this but I'd love to know!"

[@nooshinpaydar9319]

Is the finding has to be silver sterling too? And if not , wouldn’t be melted when firing the whole thing? Thanks for helpful videos x

[@cooksongold]

Sian says: "Cooksongold sell embeddable findings that you can put in the clay and then fire. You can add sterling silver findings and solder these to your piece too. If you do this then you must take into account The Hallmarking act 1973 as you are adding sterling silver to fine silver (British law only)."

[@vladnickul]

this material is suitable for large pieces? Large as in huge... lets say a bowl?

[@cooksongold]

Difficult to say, you would definitely need to kiln fire anything large to get an even temperature to sinter the particles.

[@rubenducheny2788]

Excellent!

[@cooksongold]

Many thanks!

[@lp9074]

Do you offer courses?

[@cooksongold]

Not at the moment but we sell a huge amount of books and can answer all if not most quesitons!

[@ShelleyFerguson-o5x]

Stop saying precious metal clay , just say clay it's grating me so much I can't finish watching !

[@cooksongold]

Sorry we just love precious metal clay too much!