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    Default Glass Clay!

    I may be late to the party with this, but I've just stumbled on a product called 'Glass Clay' or to give it's proper brand name 'GlasClay' produced by ClayMania.

    GlasClay consists of fine particles of glass suspended in a water-soluble binder, you buy it as a powder and reconstitute it with water, you then work it like clay, shape it, cut and/or texture it, leave it to dry and then fire it in a kiln... the result is a piece of glass! It comes in different colours based on the glasses of Bullseye and Oruboros all of which are COE90. More details can be found here.

    Could be quite interesting for those wanting to create more 3-dimensional work in glass.

    Has anyone seen/used this product yet?

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    I've got some at home that I plan to experiment with soon
    Petra at silverclay.co.uk will be selling it
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    Ah! Will be very interested to hear your experiences with it and see your results!

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    Can you torch fire this?

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    Wheely, I'm afraid you can't torch fire GlasClay. According to the UK distributor site the clay has to be fired in a kiln with a digital programmable controller, because it needs multiple firing segments at different temperatures.

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    You might be interested in this site Kaiser Design Studio which shows how it can be used with metal clay.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PureGold View Post
    You might be interested in this site Kaiser Design Studio which shows how it can be used with metal clay.
    bear in mind this is about Kaiser's own DIY glass clay, not the product mentioned above. There is also the option of freeze n fuse techniques for similar effects to those achieved by glass clay.

    Has anyone seen anything nice done with GlasClay yet?

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    George, Nic mentioned that Petra at silverclay.co.uk is selling GlasClay. I've also seen that they have a Facebook page (Metal Clay Ltd) showing some of their tests so far.

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    Thanks Vi, I know who's got it, I'm just curious to see if anyone makes anything good with it - I've not seen anything that looked even remotely exciting yet.

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    speaking as a glass-player-wannabe - surely the thing about playing with glass is, well, playing with glass? Why muck about with clay then?
    Di x

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