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Certification
The PMC Guild is an international member-based organization whose mission is to promote, support, and encourage PMC activities. Consistent with its educational mission, the Guild has created this list of minimum requirements to help schools, teachers, and others develop certification programs. This list is offered as a starting point, with the assumption that companies and individuals will tailor their program to their specific market, perhaps adding additional items to this list.
Programs that work in good faith to meet or exceed the skills listed here will be recognized by the PMC Guild International, and will be entitled to show the PMC Guild logo in their advertising.
Certification Requirements
Understanding PMC
- Proper handling (oil, balm, covered, etc.)
- Rehydrating PMC
- Advantages and uses of different kinds of PMC
- Making slip
Developing Form
- Rolling to consistent, repeatable thickness
- Modeling
- Construction and assembly
- Making holes
- Building up layers
- Texturing sheet
- Rolling out a rod ("snake")
- Making a hollow form
Finishing
- Black patina
- Sanding, burnishing, polishing, etc.
- Attaching findings (e.g. epoxy, fire in place, etc)
Miscellaneous
- Understanding of basic tools
- Setting a gem into PMC
- Carving dry unfired PMC
- Firing methods
Optional but Encouraged
- Torch Firing
- Soldering
- Enameling
- Double firing
- Using Syringe style PMC
- Using PMC Paper
- Using Aura 22
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