Hi.
Managed to cut, shape and texture a leaf out of sheet - looked lovely, really pleased with it!
Then disaster struck......... tried to solder it to a 4mm flat wire. (paste medium). The paste caught fire, turned into rock, didn't flow anywhere, silver sheet kept distorting under the heat, making a gap between the 2. Eventually managed to get the 2 to stick together, after a million attempts but my beautiful leaf is ruined.
Am I expecting too much of soldering? Is it not suitable to use to join 2 big pieces like this? Or am I using the wrong stuff - should I use solder and flux instead of paste? Or should soldering be done first thing and then shaping etc afterwards?
Any help/advice would be really appreciated. Thanks x
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