Journal entry for September 25, 2001
Today's summary: Okay, so it didn't work -- but, I still have
an eBay auction.
Well, yesterday's experiments
didn't work out. The gold completely soaked into the silver and
vanished. The enamel soaked in too, and the few bits that didn't
couldn't handle the high heat level in the kiln... they brushed
off even as I tried to clean the silver.
The frit-in-hole experiment worked a bit better than the others,
but the molten glass kinda sucked over to one edge rather than making
a smooth pool to fill the whole space. I think what I really need
are those oven-bakeable crystals like they used to use on Suncatchers
(remember those?).
At any rate, the whole process left the disks (or is it discs?)
with a distressed kind of look. Rather than just write them off
as a waste, I decided to use some acid to further blacken them,
then polished only certain sections, then added some bits of gold
leaf. As a result I now have three disks that would work well as
jewelry:
So as you can see, in the long run they turned out rather nice.
The largest disk is about the size of a dime.
I decided to try selling these on eBay. It gives me a good practice
run, since I plan to start auctioning off my other work soon, and
I know their listing system has changed somewhat recently. Here's
a link to the
disks up for auction. (Of course that link will stop working
once the auction is over. Here's a link to my
draft auction HTML.)
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