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Thank you both! And Dennis that's great advice, thank you. I've posted it on ebay but as its a niche item I'm sure it might take a while to gather...

With 14 posts, it's perhaps more of a welcome back?

Hi Leighna, and welcome to the forum. These are challenging times for selling highly priced items, so you need to look at all options. Bullion and...

In fact it wasn’t , but it had great sentimental value to the owner and I wasn’t going to take a risk and ruin a good reputation and possibly loose a...

If I am correct the actual shank looks hollow on the photos, which will make the re-soldering tricky.

Dear Sharr, Beading is not part of traditional jewellery making, so you need to find a specialist forum, and search for videos and information...

Hi Sharr I think you got a couple of answers to your last question but you didn’t come back. The same answers maybe apply here

Mojo not a problem, it’s just what sells, becomes an expensive hobby otherwise

Looking good! It’s more difficult to keep the heat along that full length. It would have been easier to solder the hearts in the round but difficult...

lots of borax liquid and there didn’t seem to be any firescale, it did take a long time for the gold to fix, I assume because the bangle was 2mm...

I’ve had my sievert for 40+ years and tbh the wee burner is still in its box and I use the the middle one for everything apart from big cuffs that...

Thanks Caroline, I didnt think the sievert was an issue, I was just trying to make everything as clear as possible, I normally use a medium burner...

I’ve always used a sievert so that isn’t the problem. The medium burner should do the job for that size. As Bob said you need to keep the flame...

No apologies needed, I do move the flame etc, Magic Borax was suggested by Andrew Berry in one of his online tutorials, it is just a premixed...

Your best course is to improve your lifetime polishing skills and for that I recommend one of the two day courses by master polisher Stephen...

Your best course is to improve your lifetime polishing skills and for that I recommend one of the two day courses by master polisher Stephen...

With Silver as with any metal make sure your joins are clean and tight, when soldering Silver you also need to heat the whole piece otherwise the...

Thank you, I probably do tend to overheat because I'm using a sievert torch and I seem to need to heat quite a bit before the solder flows, sometimes...

I f you are getting fire scale then to put it simply you are over heating the Silver, cover the piece in Boric Acid, burn off the Alcohol and it will...

Running very slow again today

Jolly annoying, but improved for me when I put a new battery in the mouse.

No shame in that. Always chance of shrivelling up the wires. Dennis.

Playing up again for me - got service unavailable a couple of times today

Gave it back unaltered! David Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Hi there, Where in Canada? It’s a big hunk of territory David Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Hello Sharr. If you are on FB there are also many beading specific pages you can join and ask questions. I’m sorry I can’t help much on this one

Hello Sharr and welcome to the forum. You will find non stretch beading thread on Cooksons web site. Choose one that will pass through your beads...