Janet H Walker on mon 29 apr 96
I am making some porcelain pendants for a school fair fundraiser.
I want to fire them on both sides. I assume I can put some thread
through the hole to dip them in glaze and then clean the hole.
What next? Could someone who has experience with firing ornaments
or pendants please let me know what not to try? I don't have quite
enough time to make all the blunders myself!! I was thinking maybe
I would suspend them on hi-temperature wire but I'm not confident
that it would hold the weight of even a thin pendant to ^6 and if it
does can I put more than one on the same wire? etc etc. Advice or
pointers to expertise much appreciated.
The pendants are thin, about 3cm across. Firing to ^6 electric.
Jan Walker
Fun & Functional Arts
Cambridge MA USA
Skye Etessami on mon 29 apr 96
Jan,
You might try using bead rods to suspend the pendants when firing.
The hole will have to be bigger, but I'v had beads/earrings/pendants
on wire before & the wire sagged during firing (^06) & all the pieces
slid together & glazed together! I don't use bead rod stands, just
supported between two kiln posts.
good luck!
Skye (etessams@ccmail.orst.edu)
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I am making some porcelain pendants for a school fair fundraiser.
I want to fire them on both sides. I assume I can put some thread
through the hole to dip them in glaze and then clean the hole.
What next? Could someone who has experience with firing ornaments
or pendants please let me know what not to try? I don't have quite
enough time to make all the blunders myself!! I was thinking maybe
I would suspend them on hi-temperature wire but I'm not confident
that it would hold the weight of even a thin pendant to ^6 and if it
does can I put more than one on the same wire? etc etc. Advice or
pointers to expertise much appreciated.
The pendants are thin, about 3cm across. Firing to ^6 electric.
Jan Walker
Fun & Functional Arts
Cambridge MA USA
c. van riemsdijk on mon 29 apr 96
My advice would be to use the sensing rod from the kilnsitter, they are very
strong, no problem up to cone 8, no deforming, can take quite a bit of weight.
Make a "tree" of clay and fire to high bisque before using.
good luck
Carolien, Haarlem, Holland.
Eleanora Eden on tue 30 apr 96
Hi Janet and all,
I fired pendants on kanthal wire at cone 10 and they bent the wires
alot. So if you're going to do it be sure your set-up allows for that.
Definitely only one pendant per wire-span. I've also done it by putting
a little hole down into the top and firing the piece upside-down stuck
onto a piece of kanthol wire, but then an "eye" of wire has to be glued
in there to string it. This works real well in fact but it's some
considerable trouble unless you find some cheap jewelry findings that
will do the job. Lately when I do this, as I've less patience these days,
I just fire the thing on a fresh three-pointed wire stilt and grind off
the little marks on the back on the theory that no other method is
economically viable. You will notice that in the marketplace the
sucessful lines of porcelain ornaments are unglazed at least on the backs.
Otherwise they have to be too expensive.
Hope this helps.
Eleanora
Eleanora Eden 802 869-2003
Paradise Hill
Bellows Falls, VT 05101 eden@maple.sover.net
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