The Saga of My Copper Paperweight
Hadar's Friendly Copper Paperweight For the last two weeks I've been experimenting with a copper paperweight that I started making in Hadar’s class. My last post explained base metal clay and I showed you some of my successful jewelry projects. (While this post might be a little technical for those of you not working in metal clay, it does illustrate my tenacity or perhaps just my stubbornness.) And perhaps you will enjoy the pictures. This paperweight actually started out as a possible pendant. The basic hexagonal box was made with Hadar’s Friendly Copper clay. I rolled the bottom layer 4 cards thick (that’s playing cards) and added the 6 sides after the bottom dried. Since I was going to put on a top, I needed supports. The supports were to be placed less than ½” apart. I think I made mine a little too close but I did not take a picture of each step. I wish I had. The supports dried and I placed the top on my 2”+ box. The next step was to texture 1 card