A Change of Plan
When I start a project I try to have a plan – at least a loose idea of where I’m heading. This experiment started out with me wanting to make links for a bracelet with mokume gane that I learned to do in Hadar’s class in Tucson. I used Friendly Copper, Friendly Bronze and Pearl Grey Steel clay in my extruder to make a long square rope that I cut into sections. The sections had all 3 types of clay in concentric circles that mimicked the Japanese mokume gane. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokume-gane I made the back layer for the 8 links in bronze and placed the cut squares in rows making sure I had good contact with the backing. The nice thing about using these there clays is firing them all at one time and in one stage. So much easier. Before I started the project, I made U shaped wire tabs (nickel chromium) to insert between the bronze backing and the mokume gane squares. I thought that would be the best way to connect...