Originally Posted by
SilverPlayer
Hi Nic,
I have some questions about this, as I'm about to have another go at this later today:
1) Do you flatten the spiral 'pad' that you make for both ends of the brooch finding?
2) Do you solder each end one at a time, or do both at the same time?
3) You didn't mention in the tute what solder you used. Is it possible to use hard solder for each end?
4) I'm using sterling silver as my brooch base, and planning to use hard solder throughout. My plan is to melt the solder on one end of the brooch base, and then re-introduce one end of the brooch finding to the base, heat the base up some more and hope the heat from the base will conduct up through the brooch wire, melting the solder at the same time and bonding both base and wire. Then I'd do the same for the other side.
Do you think this will work?
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