Making natural red clay beads?
updated by @kye: 01/13/15 09:01:41PM
@soaring-eagle
13 years ago
29,640 posts
well
i dont know much about that but does remind me of something
you saw my drum in my pics i'm sure?
well the story of how i got it involves a kiln
and specificly building a kiln in the woods
ok so the story 1st and im not promicing it will be usdefull
i was at trade circle and some kids wanted some jewlery i made (i'm going to assign values so u get an idea of how this trade cycle wemnt)
the jewlery i traded the kids (30$)
was traded for what they had in a pocket
2 pebbles (0.00000001 cents?)
1 broken earing they found on the ground (lets be generouse and say 10 cents)
a rubber band and plastic baggie (dime bag type) (3 cents)
20 minutes go by im making more jewlery and running low on silver
i traded the broken earing and pebble for a snickers bar (30 cents?)
the snickers for a roll of wire i was told was silver (but felt too stiff) if it wa silver (15$) since it wasnt (3$ maybe)
an hour later a brother comes along sees the wire tells me its high tension wire percfect for building his kiln
he trades me 3 pipes..clay pipes ..skulls with both eyes being bowes these double bowel pipes 1 was a skeletal arm holding the skull the other 2 just skulls but with john lennon style glasses that fit over the bowels keeping the weed in and hidingthe fact that its a pipe (left on my dashboard through being pulled over several times)
1 of the 3 pipes (lets say the pipes were 15 for the 2 30 forthe 1) i traded for 3 drums
2 clay 1 metal
lets say 75# each maybe less i dunno
the 2 clay drums broke fast the metal 1 i hated
i traded that for mine probly worth 200
not bad for starting from pebbles
anyways the kiln (yea i know im getting to that)
was made by coiling the wires hooking it to a car battery and building a mud uenclosure
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@shanxon-lemasters
13 years ago
411 posts
I had some red clay years ago. It was packaged, but said air dry. I made beads out of it and loved them. Then I painted them and made jewelry and even sold a few. The beads ended up breaking. Not crumbling. but they would break with very slight pressure. I would do some research and see what kind of temp. you would need for it to cure. Could be something a fire pit would do or maybe a handheld torch.