Carl MartinSilversmith & Glass Artisan
Really glad you succeeded with the pins. If you have work that is difficult to secure with binding wire they are a good option.
Just to reiterate for others.To hold tricky work in place support it by pushing dressmaking pins into a soldering block to support the work.
Quicker and a lot safer than plaster etc as stated before it must be completely dry and can be dangerous.
Hi
I am so glad you took my tip of using pins.
The piece looks fabulous.
I think there are a lot of myths about soldering using the grades of solder etc. I only ever use hard solder in all my work.
The trick is in the preperation and how you protect pieces that don't need heating etc.
1st myth all the work needs heating, NO.
Carl MartinSilversmith & Glass Artisan
Thanks Carl
Soldering is about control not flooding everything with heat etc. As I mentioned I only use hard solder,it is not through any lazy practice etc but there is no need to grade down if you cut the pallions correctly and use the heat and flux to each join and consider the previous solder join and work around it.
I have made .6mm tiny rings and joined them with hard solder.
The construction of a large piece as in the discussion should present no problem in soldering.
Probably too late.
I would drill/burr a recess [about 0.5 mm diameter larger than the tube] on the ring to mark each position.The one at a time melt solder into each recess and place the tube as the solder melts.If you quench between each soldering and smear the completed ones with grease/tripoli/tippex the solder wont melt and the recess will kee all in position.
Tony
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