[Jewelry making - Article 00191] - Re: [Orchid] Powdered solder

[Karen Goeller]

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>        He had an unusual applicator device thi ngy for it.  It was made
>     of silver sheet about half the size of a film ca nister; it looked
>     sort of like a watering can/ tea pot,  the lid was corr ugated. He
>     would scrape his index fingernail over the lid while tilting t he
>     spout in order to agitate/shake out a tiny bit of solder. 

    The applicator Mark refers to reminds me of the applicators used by
    Tibetan Buddhist monks when making a sand mandala (they were recently
    at my school and we observed them in action for a week - what an
    experience!).  They use incredibly fine colored sand and long metal
    conical tubes with their finest openings in different sizes.  The
    smallest had an opening not much larger than a single grain of sand. 
    The outside of the tube has a slight horizontal corrugation to it,
    and the sand is dispensed by rubbing (lightly!) a chopstick-sized
    stick or another tube across the ridges, creating a vibration, and a
    sound almost like a musical instrument. 

    Perhaps something like this would be adaptable to the application of
    powdered solder -- seeing the works the monks did in sand proves
    that it can be amazingly precise! 

Karen Goeller
No Limitations
kgoeller AT nolimitations.com 

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