The first think I made was a pattern of squares 4mm across, out of copper, 11x11 squares. Marking, scribing, piercing and filing. I made quite a few of those actually, we couldn't move on from an...
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The first think I made was a pattern of squares 4mm across, out of copper, 11x11 squares. Marking, scribing, piercing and filing. I made quite a few of those actually, we couldn't move on from an...
You could solder the jump ring in such a way as to make it unseen from the front.
This has been happening at work with our pickle pot (using safety pickle) and we cant work it out either. We too thought it was the lid of the slow cooker which we sawed off (blunting many blades in...
i make dozens of these at work. Just hold the wire vertically in a third hand and move the torch in a sort of sweeping motion from around an inch from the bottom end down, repeating that til you get...
When it says thick it means thick- you need to sort of pile it on at least 10mm thick, I usually pile on the whole container for each job. It's quite messy green stuff which isn't fun to clean off....
Thanks for this, Dennis- I've been trying to figure out why the solder pits into the metal.
I'm not exactly sure what this "Where possible use sweat soldering and bevel the lower edge of the...
Hello Chris :)
Hello Lisa, welcome :cool:
Hi Josh! :welcome:
Thanks everyone :)
Yes, I think it's awesome! Getting paid (albeit not a lot) for what I love doing? I really really love it. My boss is also a blacksmith so I'm hopefully going to do a little of...
Hi everyone!
I'm mostly self taught but attended jewellery college recently and managed to get myself a jewellery apprenticeship. Stumbled across this forum and I'm finding the wealth of...