Jewelry Making Tips: Soldering 101
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- Опубліковано 6 лип 2024
- In this video I discuss the three main things to know about soldering. I also show a few examples of practice exercises and a little bit about pick soldering. The intent of this video is an introduction to the basics with the next few videos going into more detail about this topic.
I hope this video is helpful and if you have any questions, please leave them in the comments section below. Also, don't forget to like and subscribe to my channel for more videos like this.
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You are an excellent teacher. I look forward to your videos. Your presentation is always knowledgeable and confident.
Thank you so much! I love what I do and want to share what I’ve learned over the years.
Love your snapshot lessons! It's taken me probably a year to get my soldering spot on and whilst I occasionally still have demons that interfere I can usually grab it back and sort it out. Like today. Soldering a bezel on a really thick chunky ring. Precariously balanced the swine moved. Whilst still having the heat on it managed to move it back with zero drama. Copper pipes help protect vulnerable prongs too. It all depends on the day and I'm glad you're honest about how tricky it can be sometimes.
Thank you so much Cat. I can soooo completely relate. The fae are fickle, so that's where the drink and cuss have to come in sometimes 😂. Then, deep breath and start again! 🤣 That copper pipe trick sounds interesting... I've never heard of that before.
Thank's..
You’re welcome! 😁
Great tutorial as always. You mentioned melting down silver using 50% scrap and 50% new.... So for the 50% new material can it still be clean cut off pieces like wire or sheet thats never been heat treated... I am going to be melting down my scraps (finally got a torch 😬😏) so I need all the help and tips I can get...lol
P.s. I am so much better pick soldering than I am placing solder then heating. Weird right?
Thank you so much JaNet! YAY! You are ready to go with the new torch. I bet you’re excited. Yes, it can be clean, new wire or sheet when creating an ingot. You just don’t want to melt and remelt too many times because of fire stain. I’m much better at pick soldering too. It’s the way I learned and have stuck with it because I can place the solder in the right place and not worry about it running all over the place. 🤣
Awesome video and thank you..quick question.while I pick solder sometimes my solder won’t stick to the pick or my solder won’t release from the pick to where I want Tom
Place it..
Sometimes if you put a little flux on your pick it helps to pick up and release the solder.