Thank you for this super tutorial, Roger. As much as anything, I am fascinated by your home made kiln and would love to know how you made it. Can you do a tutorial on that? Kilns are so very expensive to buy and I am wondering if one like yours would cost less?
Excellent video. It wasn't overly long, showed every step and gave grassroots hope to those of us just starting in this medium. I had considered using the lost wax method, but after watching your video, I think fine silver clay is the way to go! Nice music and the lack of speaking actually made it easier for my brain to fully absorb the process, start to finish in one view...tho I'm sure to watch many more times. The idea you provided for creating your own form was simply brilliant! Consider me a subscriber from now on!
Funny, was just watching the vid and your description about building the kiln was cut off. Would love to have the complete description as well. Beautiful work you do, appreciate your taking the time to post the video. Looking forward to whatever you dream up next!
PLEASE Share how you made the small electric kiln for firing metal clay.. do you have a video showing how already somewhere? It would be SUCH a help to know how. For those who asked..yes, it is .999 SILVER !! almost 100%..cool eh? Thank you for this video, very helpful.. now all we need is that little kiln :) I have a small store bought one you burn a gel in, but it doesn't cook the clay all the way through..would love to build one like yours with some control over the heat and time. Thank you!!
+Jody Todd Ok ok...i was planning to make a vid on making this kiln,Give me some time, been very busy lately with other projects so sorry for not replying The most important things you need: -Insulating fire brick (the aluminium oxide type) -Nichrome wire (if you stay under 1100 deg c) or Kanthal wire ( for high temp pottery kiln 1400 deg c) -You need a PID Ktype thermocouple temp controller. -Solid state relay.The litlle output reay in most PID controllers can't handle high current so you need to connect a SSR to it. For small kilns around 1000W (like mine in the vid) a 16 Amp rated is ok.For bigger kilns around 3000W take 25 Amps rating. You can find most parts on ebay ( the fire bricks are brittle and can break easy, so find a local dealer and ask for good impact protection during shipping) Link to some basic info: ruclips.net/video/en4yhzLuD9A/видео.html
+Roger Jonker I too would also like to see that. Whenever you get the chance, please make a video of making it. I am aware of kanthal wire, because I use it on a daily basis, but never made anything like a kiln using the wire. My RDA's use coils made from Kanthal A1 Resistance wire. I make the coils myself, and am very familiar with resistance, and how to make the wires/coils to a specific resistance.
Can the bits of clay you cut-off be reused? Just it's quite expensive stuff and that clay looks like it was pretty hard when you were chipping it away from the shape. It would be great if there was a way to reuse that stuff
You can soak in water not too much and let sit and into paste or slib when you need to attach your pieces together ...maybe grind it down will be much faster to blend with water.
Love the video. Amazed by yoir homemade kiln, stencil and also that poliahing "plate"(?) ... may l know what that polishing plate is? Where can l get one. Love to build a kiln like yours too. Thank you ao much for sharing all these.🙏
+Captain Capellini The ingredients i use to make the clay is all orgaic. methylcellulose,Gum Arabic,lavendel oil,water,dish soap. If the clay is heated above 500C it completely burns away and only the 99.9% silver powder remains.
did you ever get a video made. I would love to make the stuff since I have a lot of silver. but I cant see buying the glay since it cost more then the the item made from it. if I can make it at home and have the silver then it will save me money. thanks
+Margaret Dent Good question. Maybe i'm used to do it this way. I'm into pottery to (with normal clay) and throw a small vase on the wheel, let it dry for a day and then trim it.
Where do you buy the plastic stencil/imprint from? So when you cut away the clay and started soft filing it, the clay was dried out at this point? Sorry, I am learning about PMC and their techniques. Thanks for sharing btw!
Omg I have been trying to make these little shapes but couldn’t get how it was done. Where do you get the little plastic stencils? Also will a small jewelers kiln do the job?
Would you say this sort of thing is a good method for beginners to make jewellery as opposed to making a mold and casting things with a liquid metal? I'd imagine it is, but have never done either before. Also is there the slightest chance of this process working using an oven instead of a kiln, much like when using oven-bake clay, or will that ruin it somehow? I ask only because the chances of me being able to access a kiln of any kind are low.
I don't understand how u got the silver from casting clay 😕 u showed us putting a clay figue in a kiln and fired it when did the silver come into play?
+ROGER JONKER, can I ask u a very important question?!?!?! Ok, So..... WHAT IS THAT THING THAT YOU RUBBED THE LIZARD ON AT 435-446?!?!?!?!?! 😃😃😃😃😃😃 👇if you wanted to ask the same question.👌?
This video shows you how to make clay become silver. The government shows you how to make paper become currency. I could also show you how to make "grass" become money, but that would violate youtube terms of service :)
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This is indeed a magical material and a good quick peek at silver metal clay. There is so much more to this and if you would like to learn more, please join us at Metal Clay Now on FaceBook We are a friendly, international, bunch who love to give out all kinds of information to all no matter what you skill level is. There is so much information on the net now about metal clay just google! A great place to start is Metal Clay Academy a great resource for learning, tools, etc. good luck and have fun,
sounds amazing yet pretty unrealistic, how would you keep all the metal powder together if all the organic components burn at low temperatures? would it stick because of the carbon particles left behiknd? if so, then your final piece would have a lot of carbon inside..... hmmm sounds fantastic.
Lovely tutorial! Can I ask a couple of questions? Did you make the acrylic block from a laser cut or is there somewhere to buy it from? And is the kiln a handmade one or can you get it from a supplier? Beautiful piece, my son would absolutely love it as he's fanatical about reptiles especially lizards. Much love xxx
I am trying silver clay myself, and its not turning orange in the firing process. I am using a firing torch. Does this mean the torch is not strong enough? Pls help me :(
I'm not an expert in torch firing, but yes, you have to heat the whole silver item evenly until you see a faint glow. At this point the particles bond together and you see it shrinking in size.
Wow where can you get this metal clay of different types like silver , gold , copper ,...etc could have fooled me from the really deal stuff. Also this is a really cool way to make jewelry findings and pretty much any design you want thru stencil /stamping and firing ...so cool metal clay... i curious how its made from regular pottery clay is it just mixed with powder metal.
Smells Like Silver After all silver particles are sintered together the surface looks white. All i did was brushing it with a steel brush (not shown in the video) and polishing the surface with a cloth and polisching paste.
+Marilyn Davenport I made the stencil with my cnc engraving machine. Details: The disign is drawn in vector lines using coreldraw, then exported the disign as plotter file (.plt) to the cnc router software. The material used is delrin 3mm thick (same material as guitar picks) I've never tried it before but you can use a fretsaw to make stecils like this. Good luck...
hi Roger, how did you refine your metal to make the powder? I have a bunch of old fired PMC pieces from my early days of metal clay that I'd like to reuse.
+dotti calhoun Ther are 2 options The fast way is to desolve all silver waste in nitric acid and cement it out with copper( be sure to burn of all organic binders first)There are instructions videos on how to on youtube.This way you get fine silverpowder back you can use again to make silverclay. The slow but safer way is to melt the it all to a bar and use electrolysing for refining to 999.This is done with sulfuric acid (lead battery acid) in destilled water. The ratio is +- 5% sulfuric acid so its preaty safe.You connect the bar to positive and a stailnlessteel wire to negative. Voltage around 1.5 to 2.2 volts.It takes days / weeks to grow silver crystals. hope it helps.....
Hallo, danke fürs Video. Eine Frage kann man den Silberschmuck glänzend polieren? Habe jz einige Videos geschaut und einige Bilder auf Instagram gesehen und finde es sieht alles etwas rustikal aus bzw etwas abgenutzt, nicht das es schlecht ist aber ich mag mehr das cleane wenn es auf Hochglanz poliert ist. Ich weiß nur nicht ob sowas möglich ist daher Frage ich einfach Mal. Vielen zu!
Thank you for this super tutorial, Roger. As much as anything, I am fascinated by your home made kiln and would love to know how you made it. Can you do a tutorial on that? Kilns are so very expensive to buy and I am wondering if one like yours would cost less?
This is unbelievably cool and beautiful
This is awesome!!! Would you teach us how to build that kiln?
Yeah
Roger is secretly a chemist lol Beautiful job on all counts, amazing! I am certainly intrigued.
;-)
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@@RogerJonker Roger, can you reuse that silver clay that you cut off the sides?
Thanks you so much for getting back to me. I appreciate your answering me and your work is great.
Excellent video. It wasn't overly long, showed every step and gave grassroots hope to those of us just starting in this medium. I had considered using the lost wax method, but after watching your video, I think fine silver clay is the way to go! Nice music and the lack of speaking actually made it easier for my brain to fully absorb the process, start to finish in one view...tho I'm sure to watch many more times. The idea you provided for creating your own form was simply brilliant! Consider me a subscriber from now on!
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I'd also love to see how to make the kiln. Love your salamander. :)
@@PandawdyBob Yes, that's how I've been doing it for the last 10 years. It saves an enormous amount of time.
Funny, was just watching the vid and your description about building the kiln was cut off. Would love to have the complete description as well. Beautiful work you do, appreciate your taking the time to post the video. Looking forward to whatever you dream up next!
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fantastic video. short & with only 1 bit of text. was able to watch the whole thing on x4 speed!!!!
( wish all how-to videos were like this )
Un saludo desde Colombia
Hi!
The music sounds SOOO familiar, but I can't place it..... ?
What is it???
Thank you for generously sharing your knowledge with us all!
Love this video...surprisingly relaxing/spiritual for a guy. lol :)
Thank you for the video! Do you have any videos on how you made the firing kiln?
Roger, how did you make your oven??? That is a work of art itself!
yeh. another request for a video about how you made your oven. its cool as f**k
Adding another request for kiln tutorial! :)
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PLEASE Share how you made the small electric kiln for firing metal clay.. do you have a video showing how already somewhere? It would be SUCH a help to know how.
For those who asked..yes, it is .999 SILVER !! almost 100%..cool eh?
Thank you for this video, very helpful.. now all we need is that little kiln :) I have a small store bought one you burn a gel in, but it doesn't cook the clay all the way through..would love to build one like yours with some control over the heat and time. Thank you!!
+Jody Todd Ok ok...i was planning to make a vid on making this kiln,Give me some time, been very busy lately with other projects so sorry for not replying
The most important things you need:
-Insulating fire brick (the aluminium oxide type)
-Nichrome wire (if you stay under 1100 deg c) or Kanthal wire ( for high temp pottery kiln 1400 deg c)
-You need a PID Ktype thermocouple temp controller.
-Solid state relay.The litlle output reay in most PID controllers can't handle high current so you need to connect a SSR to it.
For small kilns around 1000W (like mine in the vid) a 16 Amp rated is ok.For bigger kilns around 3000W take 25 Amps rating.
You can find most parts on ebay ( the fire bricks are brittle and can break easy, so find a local dealer and ask for good impact protection during shipping)
Link to some basic info:
ruclips.net/video/en4yhzLuD9A/видео.html
+Roger Jonker I too would also like to see that. Whenever you get the chance, please make a video of making it. I am aware of kanthal wire, because I use it on a daily basis, but never made anything like a kiln using the wire. My RDA's use coils made from Kanthal A1 Resistance wire. I make the coils myself, and am very familiar with resistance, and how to make the wires/coils to a specific resistance.
+Roger Jonker I'm subscribing to your channel and wait for this video. Thank you!
Mark II we get it bro you vape
Audi Quattro huh :D where can I buy this clay?
nice work of art. I'm going to try that. How do you make your Kiln? Please share?
NIce video, thanks for sharing!
Breathtaking
love this! Many of us want to know how you put together the kiln????!!!!!
Thank you for an excellent tutorial, it is much appreciated.
That is so cool
Where did you get the lizard mold
Thank you for the video. I'd love to find some templates like the one used in the video. Would you tell me where to find them?
Did you end up making a tutorial on the kiln? I would love to see it as well.
Everytime I come across this video..I think the exact same thing.
Can the bits of clay you cut-off be reused?
Just it's quite expensive stuff and that clay looks like it was pretty hard when you were chipping it away from the shape.
It would be great if there was a way to reuse that stuff
You can soak in water not too much and let sit and into paste or slib when you need to attach your pieces together ...maybe grind it down will be much faster to blend with water.
very informative
Love the video. Amazed by yoir homemade kiln, stencil and also that poliahing "plate"(?) ... may l know what that polishing plate is? Where can l get one. Love to build a kiln like yours too. Thank you ao much for sharing all these.🙏
Beautiful!
Nice work. How did you make your own kiln?
Your creation was beautiful. How did you make the home-made kiln?
how did you make the Kiln? Make a DIY video please!
Someone just gave me some Mitsubishi PMC from her stash she no longer uses. I'm gonna try this for sure. Thx for sharing.
you're welcome...have fun...
Where did you get the lizard mold? Thanks for sharing it!
I don't understand, if it is a 99.9% purity product by the end, then how come it was like a clay at the start? I'd like to know what it is made of.
+Captain Capellini The ingredients i use to make the clay is all orgaic.
methylcellulose,Gum Arabic,lavendel oil,water,dish soap.
If the clay is heated above 500C it completely burns away and only the 99.9% silver powder remains.
Hi Roger, can you make a vid on how to make the metal clay?
Yes..i want to share the compleate process on how to make gold silver or copper clay.
Not sure when i can make it ... give me some time...
The clay is what holds the metal particles and is cooked away, when baked in such a hot oven, leaving the metal only.
did you ever get a video made. I would love to make the stuff since I have a lot of silver. but I cant see buying the glay since it cost more then the the item made from it. if I can make it at home and have the silver then it will save me money. thanks
nice vid, cool
Wow. How can I make a heater like that?
Woah too cool what kind of kiln is that? Sorry just into pottery never seen that before 😊
Amazing
I hate to see that waste. Can the harden pieces be recycled? Thanks for the beauty full work 🥰
Thanks! Yes, just add water, let it soak for 1 day and wedge a lot.
How did you build the kiln?
Brilliant!!!
This clay metal thing blows my mind
Edit:how much does the clay sell for?
Just a quick question: is there any reason why you would not cut the shape out when the clay is still soft?
+Margaret Dent Good question. Maybe i'm used to do it this way.
I'm into pottery to (with normal clay) and throw a small vase on the wheel, let it dry for a day and then trim it.
+Roger Jonker That makes sense ;-). I guess it's a matter of personal preference. Excellent tutorial, btw. Thank you for sharing it!
Where do you buy the plastic stencil/imprint from? So when you cut away the clay and started soft filing it, the clay was dried out at this point? Sorry, I am learning about PMC and their techniques. Thanks for sharing btw!
Wow! So it's clay but once it's baked it becomes silver? Where do you buy this clay?!?
you can buy the clay on ebay
I think he used metallic paint
Choki Moon No, that’s a metal clay. It turns into solid metal after baking. Check about PMC (Precious Metal Clay) or ArtClay.
Thankyou for explaining. U learn something new everyday ☺
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May I ask where can buy those templates'
What type of sand paper was that in the end.
Lol I have that exact lizard tattooed on me from over 20 yrs ago!
Amazing. Thank you
Omg I have been trying to make these little shapes but couldn’t get how it was done. Where do you get the little plastic stencils? Also will a small jewelers kiln do the job?
IT'S SO COOL! Is there any video for the metal clay diy? I wanna make my own silver accesories without buying those expensive clay😂
Would you say this sort of thing is a good method for beginners to make jewellery as opposed to making a mold and casting things with a liquid metal? I'd imagine it is, but have never done either before. Also is there the slightest chance of this process working using an oven instead of a kiln, much like when using oven-bake clay, or will that ruin it somehow? I ask only because the chances of me being able to access a kiln of any kind are low.
How does the clay turn to silver ?
I've never heard of metal clay! Cool! Doe's your little kiln heat up the room terribly?
I don't understand how u got the silver from casting clay 😕 u showed us putting a clay figue in a kiln and fired it when did the silver come into play?
+ROGER JONKER, can I ask u a very important question?!?!?! Ok, So..... WHAT IS THAT THING THAT YOU RUBBED THE LIZARD ON AT 435-446?!?!?!?!?! 😃😃😃😃😃😃
👇if you wanted to ask the same question.👌?
I had the same question!! I need one of those!
Looks like a whetstone for polishing
omg you made a clay became silver now show us how to make grass become money,please! \o/
This video shows you how to make clay become silver. The government shows you how to make paper become currency. I could also show you how to make "grass" become money, but that would violate youtube terms of service :)
The silver was already in the clay, it wasn't made from clay. The clay burns off and only the silver remains.
azmeatball i laugh xD
Wait. Where did he find that?
LOL IM gonna grow it too
hey i thought that's about snake making , can you do a video about making the snake
nice. thanks for sharing.
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if this gets wet will it ruin it after it's finished? also, can we use a normal stove or does it have to be this one in peticular?
I wanna know how you made your kiln?
did you make your own kiln? if so, how did you do it. i would like to make my own.
Can somebody tell how you make a mould for a 3D charm.. for example say a sitting dog,
Wait does this end up as real silver? If it does, then that's amazing!
yes almost pure silver 99%
This is indeed a magical material and a good quick peek at silver metal clay. There is so much more to this and if you would like to learn more, please join us at Metal Clay Now on FaceBook We are a friendly, international, bunch who love to give out all kinds of information to all no matter what you skill level is. There is so much information on the net now about metal clay just google! A great place to start is Metal Clay Academy a great resource for learning, tools, etc. good luck and have fun,
where can I get a lil oven like that?
Is it possible to slip cast with metal clay or would the water mess up the metal in it?
like the gecko Mold. any certain kind or brand or place to buy?
Damn for real
How heavy is it?
How did you make the mold ?
Did you purchase the mold?
hey this is 3 years ago but I could tell you how to get custom of these molds made pretty easily if you'd like, its a bit lengthy though
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Muy bueno, gracias
sounds amazing yet pretty unrealistic, how would you keep all the metal powder together if all the organic components burn at low temperatures? would it stick because of the carbon particles left behiknd? if so, then your final piece would have a lot of carbon inside..... hmmm sounds fantastic.
How did it turn silvet
Lovely tutorial! Can I ask a couple of questions? Did you make the acrylic block from a laser cut or is there somewhere to buy it from? And is the kiln a handmade one or can you get it from a supplier? Beautiful piece, my son would absolutely love it as he's fanatical about reptiles especially lizards. Much love xxx
What is the temp probe made of that it doesn't melt
Bravo!
I am trying silver clay myself, and its not turning orange in the firing process. I am using a firing torch. Does this mean the torch is not strong enough? Pls help me :(
I'm not an expert in torch firing, but yes, you have to heat the whole silver item evenly until you see a faint glow. At this point the particles bond together and you see it shrinking in size.
wait. it's clay and you rubbed it on silver to make it look like that or did I miss a step?
this is awesome stuff... I have to know how to make It I have a lot of silver
Wow where can you get this metal clay of different types like silver , gold , copper ,...etc could have fooled me from the really deal stuff. Also this is a really cool way to make jewelry findings and pretty much any design you want thru stencil /stamping and firing ...so cool metal clay... i curious how its made from regular pottery clay is it just mixed with powder metal.
firemountaingems has some
Que lindooooo!!!!!!
And where can i get that gecko cutter?
I love geckos. My questionis how long does this have to be heated? Say if all i have is a cast iron pan on the stove?
Thanks
Were you rubbing on a bar of Silver at the end or were you rubbing on something else to reveal Silver underneath?
Smells Like Silver After all silver particles are sintered together the surface looks white.
All i did was brushing it with a steel brush (not shown in the video) and polishing the surface with a cloth and polisching paste.
Okay..cool. Thanks Roger!
Alchemy! You, know... you can bake anything into a solid inanimate object with the right amount heat, cooling and pressures!
Do you make these templates to sell? Or a custom order of one more?
please send a link on how to obtain or make that lizard stencil...thank you...;p
Roger, Mind my asking where you go the template for the lizard? It is very thick and strong.
+Marilyn Davenport I made the stencil with my cnc engraving machine.
Details:
The disign is drawn in vector lines using coreldraw, then exported the disign as plotter file (.plt) to the cnc router software.
The material used is delrin 3mm thick (same material as guitar picks)
I've never tried it before but you can use a fretsaw to make stecils like this.
Good luck...
hi Roger, how did you refine your metal to make the powder? I have a bunch of old fired PMC pieces from my early days of metal clay that I'd like to reuse.
+dotti calhoun Ther are 2 options
The fast way is to desolve all silver waste in nitric acid and cement it out with copper( be sure to burn of all organic binders first)There are instructions videos on how to on youtube.This way you get fine silverpowder back you can use again to make silverclay.
The slow but safer way is to melt the it all to a bar and use electrolysing for refining to 999.This is done with sulfuric acid (lead battery acid) in destilled water.
The ratio is +- 5% sulfuric acid so its preaty safe.You connect the bar to positive and a stailnlessteel wire to negative.
Voltage around 1.5 to 2.2 volts.It takes days / weeks to grow silver crystals.
hope it helps.....
+Roger Jonker Thank you for the instructions! That is a lot more work than I realized☺.
+Roger Jonker Hey how did the clay turn into silver? im not that big into pottery and im really confused.
could you tell us your source for silver powder?
Wow.. !
Is that .925?
Hallo, danke fürs Video. Eine Frage kann man den Silberschmuck glänzend polieren? Habe jz einige Videos geschaut und einige Bilder auf Instagram gesehen und finde es sieht alles etwas rustikal aus bzw etwas abgenutzt, nicht das es schlecht ist aber ich mag mehr das cleane wenn es auf Hochglanz poliert ist.
Ich weiß nur nicht ob sowas möglich ist daher Frage ich einfach Mal.
Vielen zu!
how did you make the plastic lizard stencil
+Lisa Dellerman See my reply to Marilyn Davenport
Thank YOu...i would love to have or be able to create the actual stencil plastic lizard shaped stencil piece
How much cost IT?
And in the end the clay is Silver! The clay was always silver but the kiln is the magic to this whole process right! Besides Making your creation..