Hi folks, I haven’t been making much for the last few months as work has been really busy but I’ve been back at my workbench last week for a birthday present.
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I’m mostly happy with it as it’s my first proper attempt at sweat soldering (the polish is now much better than this pic!) but I had a few problems so thought I’d ask the collective for some tips.

I used 0.7mm sterling, partly because it’s for a guy & I didn’t want it to look too delicate but mostly because it was what I had available. I used hard solder to attach the wave as I also needed to solder a bail of some sort on the back.

My mini torch just about coped with it but it took a fair bit of heating. What do you think would be the optimum thickness of sheet and is it better to have the pieces the same thickness or different?

Would I have done better to do the bail first in hard then use easy for the sweat solder?
And are these problems fixed just by having a better torch?