Hi everyone!
It's my sisters b'day this weekend and I've been making her some little flower earrings today.
I've made good progress so far but just as I was about to pick up my torch to start soldering, I had that moment where I thought to myself "Eve, this is where it could all go wrong, do you really know how to approach this? Will you end up melting the earring posts in the process?"
I'm so very grateful for a bit of internal dialogue at these crucial moments!
Anyway, before I go and make a mess of this, I thought I would drop you all a note to ask your guidance on how to solder the flower to the post without melting the posts? I'm still very new to silver making and having had one or two melting moments on other pieces, I want to try and get this one right first time.
My challenge is that I need to thread the post through the hole in the centre of the flower, add the solder, front or back I'm not sure.I thought maybe put the solder on the front inside the flower and draw it back onto the post but then that would be alot of heat near to the post. Would it be better sitting the solder round the back of the flower and heat from the front? These are small earrings (the flower is about 5mm wide, with 3mm studs) I'm just terrified of it turning into a big old blob!
I have attached a photo to show you..
Thanks in advance for any thoughts and suggestions.
For now, I think I shall have a break so I'm off out for a glass of wine with a good friend and plan to hit the soldering in the morning....maybe after a couple of coffees first!
Cheers! ;o)
Eve x
Bookmarks