{"id":5801,"date":"2014-01-29T09:31:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T22:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=5801"},"modified":"2014-02-01T07:21:18","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T20:21:18","slug":"danaca-enamel-workshop-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=5801","title":{"rendered":"Danaca Enamel Workshop 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

My enamel practice for 2014 started with teaching a Saturday mini-workshop at a local jewellery studio here in Seattle. The owner of the studio, Dana, was holding this class for a bunch of her close friends and so most of the attendees were acquaintances, if not actual friends of mine.<\/p>\n

So what was I to do when shenanigans ensued?<\/p>\n

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kiln forks at 2 paces…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Luckily they all worked as hard as they played – here’s some of their test firings on steel can, regular mild steel and Thompson’s Low Carbon Steel test squares. Dana even made a pair of ‘potato chip’ earrings, firing the beige onto ovoid sections of the rippled steel can.<\/p>\n

\"Montage<\/a>
Montage of samples produced<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was also my first opportunity to test the Thompson GC-16 Cobalt <\/a>Blue, otherwise know as their ground coat. It worked really well, though a couple of people remarked to me that they actually preferred the colour of the clear enamel on the raw steel and so would probably stick to that as a base coat. I’m inclined to agree, but I’m happy to have some of the GC-16 in my supplies for more stubborn pieces of recycled steel.<\/p>\n

As a real test for the ground-goat I slathered a layer over a piece of low carbon steel that I had not sandblasted, only washed with some detergent and scoured it with a pretty crummy piece of Scotchbrite. It actually fared better than I expected.<\/p>\n

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Thompson GC-16 fired on a low carbon steek square. Not great, but I didn’t sandblast it first, so not bad…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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