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Pmc3 Assortment Price: 76.95 PMC3 clay, paste and syringe work beautifully together to create pure silver works of art. Buy the assortment and save 20%. An excellent value and convenience, giving you artistic freedom in PMC. PMC3 is a lower firing PMC and ideal when firing wi...	Pmc3 Deluxe Jewelry Clay Kit Price: 99.95 Create Fine Silver Jewelry Using Clay Discover the creative possibilities of Precious Metal Clay. Shape it like a clay, and fire it to 99.9% pure silver. PMC3 fires at a low temperature, no kiln or torch is needed. Create intricate silver projec...	Pmc Ring Kit Price: 42.95 Make Beautiful Silver Rings. Discover how easy it is to make your own personalized pure silver rings. This kit contains handy tools, plus creative accessories and ring sheet clay to make custom pure silver rings. With finger gauges and a mandrel ...
Quick Takes Pmc Basics Dvd Price: 29.95 Learn at Your Own Pace Master metal and PMC jewelry artist Tim McCreight has teamed up with White Dog Arts to create an instructional video that breaks new ground. It features digital technology to present information modules that can be controll...	Pmc+ Clay - 18 Gm Price: 31.95 Making Your Own Silver Jewelry is Now Unbelievably Easy. Silver Jewelry Clay is Easy as 1-2-3. 1) Molds Like Clay 2) Fires Fast 3) 99.9% Fine Silver. Jewelry clay is a revolutionary way to make fine silver jewelry that is 99.9% pure silver. PMC ...	Pmc+ Clay - 45g Price: 77.95 Jewelry clay is a revolutionary way to make fine silver jewelry that is 99.9% pure silver. PMC (Precious Metal Clay) is a mixture of tiny particles of silver, an organic binding agent and water. This user-friendly clay can molded and worked like c...
Deluxe Pmc Enamel Kit Price: 49.95 Bring Exciting Color to Your Silver Jewelry Paint your next metal clay project. Now you can add a delightful touch of color to your silver clay pieces. This deluxe enameling kit has everything you need to get started. Enamels are best fired in a ...	Pmc+ Sheet Clay - 5 Gm Price: 14.95 Making Your Own Silver Jewelry is Now Unbelievably Easy. Silver Jewelry Clay is Easy as 1-2-3. 1) Molds Like Clay 2) Fires Fast 3) 99.9% Fine Silver. Jewelry clay is a revolutionary way to make fine silver jewelry that is 99.9% pure silver. PMC ...	Pmc3 Syringe Price: 22.95 Making Your Own Silver Jewelry is Now Unbelievably Easy. Silver Jewelry Clay is Easy as 1-2-3. 1) Molds Like Clay 2) Fires Fast 3) 99.9% Fine Silver. Jewelry clay is a revolutionary way to make fine silver jewelry that is 99% pure silver. PMC (P...

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Add Texture to Precious Metal Clay

Just finished another new article about how to add texture to Precious Metal Clay with some ideas of what you can use to add the texture. To read the entire article, follow this link.

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How to Make a Simple PMC Pendant

I have just completed an article called How to Make a Simple Pendant from Precious Metal Clay for anyone who is just starting with PMC, or would like a step by step guide.

Take a look and if you have any questions feel free to leave them in the comment section of the article so that everyone can read the answers. I am planning to come out with an ebook early in 2010 which will be very affordable. I am hoping to sell it for about $5.00 just to pay for my time so that anyone can afford it. It will be instructions for anyone starting out with PMC, so that they can go it on their own.

If you are looking for a gift to give a PMC enthusiast for under $20, I recommend any of the following items:


These are all great gifts that any PMC enthusiast can never use enough of, and they are very inexpensive. Amazon Prime members get free 2 day shipping, and if you are not an Amazon Prime member, you probably still have time to get these items if you have them shipped ground.


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Starting Your Precious Metal Clay Library

If you are just starting your Precious Metal Clay reference library, or you want to give a good gift to someone that you know who is a PMC artist, my favorite book for new PMC artists is still Working with Precious Metal Clay by PMC Master Tim McCreight.

This is not the newest book on the market, but it is still an excellent resource by someone who pioneered the use of Precious Metal Clay. It is available in hardcover or paperback, although if you are going to use it a lot, the hardcover will hold up better. The link that I have provided above is for the hardcover version, but you can click through to the paperback or spiral version.

This book is a good choice because the explanations are excellent with lots of pictures to help you understand, and Tim McCreight goes over the basics as well as provides projects that anyone can do and feel good about. Here is a sample page from the book.

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Incorporating Glass into Precious Metal Clay

Incorporating fused glass into PMC can turn a good piece into a stunning piece. I am not going to teach you how to fuse glass in this blog, but if you are looking for glass to fuse, and instruction books, a great place to look is Delphi Glass. You can fuse glass in your PMC kiln. Glass kilns are approximately the same size, and PMC and fusing glass are great partners.

Remember that you need to use low fire PMC3 when combining glass and PMC. PMC3 was formulated to fire at a temperature low enough not to melt glass.

Create your piece from Precious Metal Clay the way you normally would, embed your fused glass into the raw clay, then fire at the lowest temperature possible.

Because of the glass, the kiln needs to ramp up very slowly, and cool slowly as well. Glass has unique properties that cause it to go into temperature shock if you heat or cool it too rapidly. The shock causes cracks or breakage in the glass. Let your piece cool inside the kiln overnight. Do not pull it out early. The cooling process is just as important as the heating process.

You can wrap PMC around the fused glass or you can create a bezel for it.  The best practice is to have a hole or open area behind the glass to let the light shine all the way through front to back.

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New Source for Precious Metal Clay

I want to pass on some information that I just learned to you to let you know about a new source for Precious Metal Clay. The source is a company that specializes in glass which can be used in conjunction with PMC3, but I didn't know that they also carried the PMC products. The name of the company is Delphi Glass, and if you click the links in this post, it will take you directly to their PMC section.

As you know, I prefer to use the Precious Metal Clay instead of Art Clay Silver, so I will always write with that bias. Delphi Glass carries the Precious Metal Clay brand and Art Clay Silver.

One of the things that they carry is this PMC Hot Pot Kit below which is good for people who do not want to buy a kiln.


I used to be able to get this from Dick Blick but I can't anymore.

They also sell a very nice kiln that can be used for PMC and fusing and annealing glass.



I found this out when I was looking for sources of dichroic glass which I will be writing about in my next post. Here is a link for the dichroic glass and fuseable glass.



So definitely follow the links and check out this website. They have a lot of great tools and supplies for working with PMC.

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Using Precious Metal Clay Syringe Techniques

I will tell you right off that using a Precious Metal Clay syringe is not my favorite technique, and if you look at any of my work, you will be able to see that. I rarely use a syringe because I do not love the filigree look, my hands shake making the syringe almost impossible for me to use, and they are too delicate for my style.

That being said, there are many PMC enthusiasts who love using the syringe, and it is another great way to add style and detail to your piece. If you notice the earrings in the above picture are made completely out of a beehive of syringe technique. This will make your work very lightweight, but also would be very delicate and need special care.

My personal recommendation is to use the syringe as a layered detail on a solid piece of PMC. Syringes come with three different width tips or you can make your own out of thin plastic. It is important that once you open your syringe that you keep the tip in a container of water or your PMC inside the syringe will dry out very rapidly. Do not open a syringe until you are ready to use it. You can refill a syringe once it is empty with a thick slip, but it won't have the perfect consistency that the premade syringes have.

The best way to use a PMC syringe is as a filigree decoration on top of another design, to smooth an edge where two pieces come together, or as a bezel for a stone. I have seen some extremely clever use of syringe technique by fellow artists. The syringe takes a steady hand, and a lot of patience to master.

As you use the syringe, keep in mind the rules about how thick PMC needs to be to have enough strength for regular wear and tear.

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