hot enough to melt

I got an enameling kiln! Enameling is probably the most fun craft I've tried to date. Despite the 4 days of glass inhalation before I got a respirator, setting a minor fire, and accidentally melting something I thought was brass (whoops) I'm still obsessed.

Here are some things I've made so far.

First, I just tried regular enamel on copper.


Then I got wacky and tried embedding watch gears into the enamel. This works! However, it's kind of a crap shoot, because it's not always easy to tell what the parts are made out of, so sometimes they melt out of shape.

There's a great tutorial out there by Copperheart that got me started.

A longer post on this coming soon!