Product Description
Art Clay Silver Clay - 5gm.
Art Clay Silver Clay can be sculpted and shaped easily by hand, and once fired is real, pure, fine silver.
Art Clay Silver has been around since 1995. Since its launch, there have been a few different types of Art Clay Silver. When Art Clay created this clay formula they picked the best parts from their most popular clays - easy moulding, slow drying, and a possible low firing temperature making it suitable for combining with glass and porcelain, and allowing torch and gas hob firings. We think this might just be the ideal silver clay!
Why use Art Clay Silver Clay?
- Excellent workability and a longer working time.
- Art Clay Silver can be hallmarked as fine silver (999) at any UK Assay Office.
- Shrinkage 8-9%.
- It retains and accepts moisture beutifully, which means it is easy to keep supple and a dream to reconstitute if it dries.
- You can carve, engrave, and reshape with files easily in the dry stage; it is firm and hard to carve into, but not so hard that it is brittle.
FIRE WITH EASE
- You can fire with a kiln, torch, or gas stove.
Pack size: 1 x 5gm package.
Q: HOW MUCH CAN I GET FROM A 5G PACK OF CLAY?
A: It goes further than you think. A 5gm package is enough to make a 5mm wide and 2mm thick ring, in size F.
A 5gm pack of clay rolled out to 1.5mm (or 6 cards) thick will give you roughly a 20x20mm size sheet. Perfect for two little pendants or charms, or a pair of earrings and thick enough to take a good imprinted texture.
And if you roll it out to 1mm (or 4 cards) you will of course get a bigger sheet, and at 1mm thick it will still be strong enough for decorations, pendants, charms, earrings, and similar.
WHY SHOULD I CHOOSE ART CLAY?
Don't just listen to us - here is some feedback we've had on Art Clay Silver from users:
- I attempted plenty of rolling out, cutting and then ‘scrunching’ up and re-rolling and didn’t observe any cracking, drying-out or the usual deterioration in the ‘condition’ of the clay that one would expect at that stage....very ‘user friendly’ for beginners who struggle with working fast enough to prevent the clay drying.
- The clay is definitely easy to manipulate if you are designing as you go. Mistakes and cracks are very easy to repair/fill with a wet brush and it goes smooth quickly and nicely.
- I bonded to pieces together beautifully, and only needed a little sanding. No problems and no minor surface edge cracking! I polished with the ‘sunshine’ cloth and was really amazed at the beautiful deep shine, it took me by surprise. The pieces also felt dense, and strong.
- With its ability to blend so well when pasted, this makes putting the 3D pieces together seamless. The clay seems to take longer to dry out which gives more time for creating a piece. The clay has a lovely soft smooth texture and works for much longer than the existing 650.
- It carved well. When dry, it feels nice and velvety, not chalky. Collected all my sandings, drilling dust and tiny dried bits and reconstituted them. They came together really easily.
