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5gm Art Clay Silver Syringe - no tip, perfect for adding decoration to your metal clay creations!
Syringe type silver is a special formula of silver clay which allows you to extrude it from a syringe. It comes pre-packed in a syringe, using a special formula giving you a perfect smooth extrusion with no air bubbles or the extruded clay breaking.
Use Art Clay Silver syringe to:
- decorate your unfired silver clay with squiggles and lines - it makes beautiful leaves, twigs, and flowers!
- add little dotty decorations
- create bezels to set lab-created and other safe-to-fire stones before firing. Simply draw a little donut shape and then push your stone in.
- use without a tip and make clay "ropes" or snakes, which can be braided, shaped into bail loops, make chain loops, wrapped around a mandrel to make a ring, and more.
- as it is, on its own to make hollow filigree like designs. Simply create a core shape with an burnable material like wood clay and cover it with the syringe. When you fire the piece, the core will burn away and leave you with a hollow delicate piece.
TOP TIP!
Keep your syringe standing with the tip in a glass of water when you're not using it. Put it back as soon as you stop extruding, so the tip doesn't dry out.
When fired, the syringe shrinks about 10-12% which helps enhance fine details. It can be fired with a gas torch, on a gas hob, or in a kiln.
Different tips lets you extrude fine, medium and large sized clay ropes/snakes. You can find replacement syringe tips here.
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9 Reviews
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Silver clay syringe
I find this neat and useful for joins and making sure little gaps are filled
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silver syringe
Good quality, very useful.
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silver syringe
'm happy as usual
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art clay syringe
I love having a syringe on hand in my studio, I use it for decoration and also doing finish patching in pieces. I keep it stored in a little bottle with the tip barely submerged in water so it does not get hard and this keeps it perfectly and it lasts a good while.
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Brilliant
This was a top up for my 10g silver syringe (misjudged how many things I'd want to make!) and it was great. Takes a little bit to get used to syringing things, but I can honestly say it's something I'm going to be doing more of! I used this pack to make 3 small neckalce outline-pendants (think, size of a 10p, not solid) Easy to fire at home, and polish up!
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Just the right amount of silver clay...
... for smaller decorative parts. For the larger parts you will mostly use the "normal" clay - at least, I do...
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Lasts longer than you think...!
The 5gr size is a more economical way of buying syringe clay especially if you save the tips from an old syringe. It's surprising how much you can do with 5grams, keep the tip standing in water and you can keep them for a long time without drying out.
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Precision
Great for adding small details, accessing hard to reach places. Very easy to use. Nice consistency.
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the product is good but . . .
you need more than one - does anyone know how to clean the tip so you can swap? Definitely good to have separate tips but you need one syringe per tip so you have to have more than you would use. The clay gradually soaks down into the water you keep the syringes in. Can't we have a tip cover too - I could keep them in an airtight plastic container then, with damp tissue, of course. *****RESPONSE FROM METAL CLAY***** You can store the syringe in a glass of water, any silver that eventually seeps out will fall to the bottom of the glass so can be recycled into silver paste (which you can use to repair broken clay, to paint on back of leaves, lace and other burnable materials to create fine silver replicas). After silver has gathered for a while, and it is settled at the bottom, pour out as much water as possible, then using a clay shaper scrape out the silver 'sludge' into a paste pot. You can also leave it to dry out completely and scrape it out, and then reconstitute it into paste with a little water. There shouldn't be much silver coming out of the tip though. You might want to give the plunger of the syringe a very gentle tug upwards before you set the syringe in the water to pull the clay back into the tip. It isn't recommended to store clay in a removed tip for a longer period of time, then it is better to clean it out; using a pointed tool scrape out as much as possible and put in a paste pot. The last bit can be rinsed in your syringe glass, and then you reclaim all the silver at the bottom of the glass in one go. You could store syringes wrapped in a tiny bit of cling film, covered in wet tissue and then in a airtight container or plastic bag - but personally I prefer the glass solution.
