Web Based Bronzclay™ Tutorials and Guides
Bronzclay™ was launched at the PMC Conference in July 2008. Several classes were run by Celie Fago and Hadar Jacobson prior to the conference. Both Celie and Hadar had been involved in experimenting with Bronzclay™ in collaboration with the inventor Bill Streuve. In July 2010, Fast Fire Bronzclay™ was launched, download a flyer about it here.
Hadar Jacobson sells bronze and copper clay in powder form which you mix yourself. You'll also find information about this form of clay here. She is also developing White Bronze Clay, see below.
Prometheus™ bronze clay is also available. Developed in Europe, this bronze clay has a shorter, lower temperature firing schedule without the need for activated carbon. Available as lump clay and in syringe form. You'll find information about Prometheus™ bronze clay here.
Hadar Jacobson - Little Boxes
In her ongoing effort to improve the success of firing and sintering of the base metal clays, Hadar has come up with a way of firing mixed loads of large, small and hollow forms by using fiber paper boxes inside the carbon box. Have a look at this blog entry and give it a try!
Hadar Jacobson - Even Better, Mini Kilns
Hadar continues to push the envelope and develop new ways of ensuring bronze and copper clays sinter every time. She's now come up with this mini kilns idea using a soft fire brick to construct individual boxes to go into the kiln creating mini kilns for your bronze and copper clay pieces. Allows you to fire many items at the same time, like the little boxes in the above post - but these are more durable and will last longer after the initial work to construct them. Genius!
White Bronze Clay
Hadar Jacobson has done it again! She has released White Bronze Clay and you can read about it and see some great pictures on her blog. To dowload a firing schedule and working instructions for White Bronze Clay visit our bronze clay download tutorials page.
All Things Metal Clay - Round up of all Information on Bronzclay
Great summary of all the current information about Bronzclay, put together by Elaine Luther.
Bronzclay™ Getting Started Information from Cool Tools
This comprehensive tutorial tells you all you need to know about working with Bronzclay™.
Bronzclay™ Squidoo Lens - Margaret Schindel
Another fabulous Squidoo Lens from Margaret Schindel. Great attention to detail, fab pictures and lots of very useful information. If you're looking for everything there is to know about this new medium, this is the place. It includes some history, work by some of the leaders in the field and all you need to know to help you work with bronze clay.
Bronzclay™ Tools Squidoo Lens - Margaret Schindel
Comprehensive tools and suppliers list from Margaret Schindel. Together with her definitive Bronzclay™ Lens (above), this is everything you need to understand and start to work with the new base metal clays.
Bronzclay™ Troubleshooting Guide from Cool Tools
Fantastically thorough article about what can go wrong and how to tell if your clay is over or under fired. Great pictures.
Drying Bronzclay™ - from Cool Tools
Drying the clay using heat can lead to cracking. In this article, alternative ways of drying the clay are discussed and some surprising conclusions result!
Fast Fire Bronzclay™ Tips and Hints - Metal Clay Guru
Useful information on working with Fast Fire Bronzclay™, launched in July 2010.
Firing Bronzclay™ - from Cool Tools
Very comprehensive article about firing Bronzclay™.
Hadar Jacobson - Bronze and Copper Clay powder
On this page you can buy bronze and copper clay powder. You can also find mixing, handling and firing instructions here.
Hadar Jacobson - Copper and Bronze Clay Blog
This blog has tips and hints about using Hadar's Copper and Bronze clay powder. Well written and illustrated.
Prometheus™ Bronze Clay Firing Instructions and Schedule
Prometheus™ Bronze Clay is a claylike material which turns into pure, solid bronze when fired in a kiln. It is a mixture of micron sized bronze powder, water and organic binder. It can be formed by hand, rolled into a sheet or a rope. It can be molded, textured, even turned on a potter's wheel. Prometheus™ Bronze Clay can be fired with most lab-created gemstones (cubic zirconias), pre-tested natural stones, glass beads, ceramic and porcelain.
Prometheus™ Bronze Clay - Alternative Firing Instructions, Sabine Alienor
Sabine combines a couple of firing methods for this foolproof firing schedule for Prometheus™ Bronze Clay.
Prometheus™ Bronze Clay - How to work with it
Working with Prometheus™ Bronze Clay is similar to working with silver clays, polymer clays, modelling dough, flower dough and ceramic clays. It is very easy to use.
Sabine Alienor - Bronze Clay Tutorial in French and English
Great tutorial in French showing how to make a pair of bronze clay earrings. This tutorial goes into handling and molding the clay and the firing schedule.
Sabine Alienor - Bronze Clay Tutorial in French and English
Another great tutorial in French and English by Sabine. This project shows very well how to make larger pieces with Bronzclay™. Sabine covers how to deal with cracking during drying as well as firing large pieces.
Sabine Alienor - Bronze and Copper Clay Pendant in French
This is a great tutorial for learning how to combine bronze and copper clay. It's in French but with very good pictures you'll be able to follow it even if you don't read French.
Sabine Alienor - Bronze Clay Tutorial in French and English
This tutorial shows how to make a prong setting for a stone in Bronze Clay. The technique is equally suitable for use with silver clay.
Sabine Alienor - Bronze Clay Tutorial with a Fire in Place Stone in French
Lovely tutorial showing how to set a stone in place.
Sabine Alienor - Textured Bronze Clay Tutorial in French
Easy tutorial showing how to make small textured pendants. Very good pictures.
Sabine Alienor - Hadar's Quick Fire Bronze Clay Tutorial in French
Great tutorial with lots of very good pictures. Even if you don't read French, you'll learn from Sabine's tutorials.
Sabine Alienor - Prometheus Bronze Clay Syringe Tutorial in French and English
Prometheus have developed a syringe bronze clay and this tutorial from Sabine shows you how to use it to make a lovely bead.
Sabine Alienor - Prometheus Bronze Clay Tutorial in French
Nice tutorial showing step by step instructions to make a pair of earrings using Prometheus Bronze Clay. Although it's in French, the pictures are so good you can easily follow along as Sabine shows you how to use this low fire bronze clay. This includes how to fire the piece using a torch.
Sabine Alienor - Prometheus Bronze Clay Tutorial in French
Another great tutorial from Sabine using the new Prometheus Bronze Clay. This one shows how to make a pendant.
Sabine Alienor - Prometheus Bronze Clay Tutorial in French and English
Sabine shows step by step how to make this bronze ring. As always, there are wonderful pictures.
Xuella Arnold - Bronze Clay Exploration
Xuella has written up some of her experiences with Bronzclay™ especially for the Metal Clay Academy....
"I've been busy working with the bronze clay, I've just finished running some workshops in schools with the Henley on Thames Youth Festival, which is on over April.
I went into primary schools and worked with children around the age of
9-10 and they made flying birds which had the starting title of
freedom, it was great to see how they got on with the bronze clay, they
definitely found moulding it the hardest ,as they 
found it cracked a
lot with a lot of use. When I fired the moulded heart shapes it was
interesting because on some of them, the inside was hollow and a lot of
black dust came out, which was obviously unsintered clay it didn't
affect the outside shape , I'm not sure if it was because the clay
hadn't fully dried out, but it could be used to an advantage, to
create hollow shapes.
I also noticed that the pieces that were fired further down in the container had a more golden colour with the coal based carbon. Here is a picture of one of the birds that one of the children made.
I've also been having a nightmare making a bronze pagoda, which is
becoming a never
ending project!
I've been fabricating the pieces with templates and then joining and
assembling it with slip, but there are a lot of problems with the
shrinkage rate, which distorts the shape ,which in some cases has been
used to an advantage, but other times the piece just gets pulled apart
on the joins. I have managed to rebuild some of the pieces and to
rejoin unfired clay to fired clay using slip and extra clay, but it's
very slow going. I hope to have it finished for the Henley show which
is on May 15th. If anyone else is making anything of this sort of size
any advice would be great. The finished piece is going to be about 20cm
high. Heres a photo of work in progress!
It's looking quite a mess at the moment. Also if anyone knows where you can get a larger stainless steel container and lid that will fit inside a pmc evenheat kiln, as the ones you can buy are very small."
Bronze and Silver Compass
