Sorry can't find a picture before firing apart from the wet stage!

Like many other silver clay users because extreme rising costs I wanted to try other more affordable metal clays. I picked bronze  clay made by Prometheus. 

I left the piece to fully dry it was actually a few weeks sat as  "greenware" as I needed to order some carbon and kept forgetting haha. So 100% dry I don't know if leaving it for so long would have affected the piece in any way but that's doubtful. 

I then finally fired it today! I followed the clay instructions did 15min on open shelf to burn off the binder. Then I put in my Prometheus kiln for 30mins at 820 wedged between coconut carbon not touching the bottom or sides etc

The piece has shrunk about half the size haha the hole for a chain completely closed up and the lumpy texture of the charcoal imprinted which clearly means at some point to melted or was slightly molton. 

Luckily bronze clay is cheap and it was just an experiment. I actually enjoy the textured look it looks like an arcological find haha as I was designing a Roman inspired piece! Haha 

But for next time... Any tips or advice for those more used to bronze?  I assume regardless of what my kiln and the instructions say I need to fire at a lower temperature?

Thanks for any advice ❤️

First attempt using "Prometheus sunny bronze clay" I followed heating schedule on my kiln but it frazzled 😅😭