Hello,
I made a pair of earrings for my only customer... my mum (also customer is being generous she pretty much takes anything I make she likes :P ) and I'm having some trouble with the pendant to go with it.
I drilled holes and put copper wire through them through, soldered, cut and filed them down etc... However I get these hair line dips/gaps around the copper dots, which I tried using hard solder paste on but that didn't seem to make any noticeable difference at all. This was my first go with paste and it was hard to judge what it was doing but I'm worried that the solder just leaks through to the other side as I have some build up there, also that repeated heating is just making the gaps on the front worse, although there are still some on the back too). I wouldn't want to do more than one more try as I'm worried I'll make the silver too thin with all the repeated rubbing down (It got really bad firescale as well, I was sure I could see a little green man or maybe a saint in it) so if anyone has any suggestions I'd be really grateful.
I've taken as close up as I can get might be able to blow it up a bit in photoshop if these aren't good enough.
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