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Category: Technical Articles 2000

Julie Higgins

In her tutorial Betty showed us how to enamel on copper foil. That’s really all she did - except that the method opened up so many possibilities for us. Actually, I had already done a regional workshop with Betty on the same subject - I had gone home thoroughly enthusiastic, but I forgot one simple but essential rule - the front of the piece (on the back you brush on liquid flux or white or whatever, let it dry and then do the front and fire both sides at the same time) should be gummed before the enamel is sifted. Yup - that's the one I forgot. So, the ridges I had created on the copper just burned out. Fine, if that's what you wanted, but it wasn't in my case. So, now that particular lapse of memory had been corrected it was plain sailing.

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