video How to solder amateur jewelry
This video is in response to questions I’ve gotten about soldering. This is how I solder all my projects. Keep in mind metal solders best when it’s clean. Also, some metals are difficult or impossible to solder the way I’m doing in this video (stainless steel, aluminum). Good luck. Hope it helps.
I do have photo's of these butterflys, if I knew how to show you them I would. that way you can see what I'm talking about.
I actually lost one the other day, it came apart and fell back behind my egg crate shelving and I can't reach it, but the other two are still hanging on the wall, along with the beta fish I made to see if I could.
oh and even though this has nothing to do with the video, how would you recommend adding to the glass beads to this? I used the super glue gel that I used on the wire to attach them, but they tend to fall off as well. any suggestions on maybe getting those to stick? they are the flat on one side type of glass dots. that people put in fish tanks or to decorate bowls for flowers and such. You know the ones I'm talking about right?
did any of that make sense?
I solder a lot of jump rings for stained glass work, and have found that a pair of hemostats or locking clamps (like this http://www.harborfreight.com/5-1-2-half-inch-locking-clamp-99930.html) are really handy - that way you don't have to concentrate on keeping your pliers tight on the jumpring while doing everything else. :)
P,S, I won't part with Mine..HAR.! G-G