[Jewelry making - Article 00519] - [Orchid] Soldering station

[Dave Sebaste]

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    Hi Friends, Another tangent from the bench dialogue that might be
    interesting to exploRe:  I noticed several people recently have
    mentioned, almost as an aside, that they keep a separate soldering
    station rather than soldering at their primary bench. Someone (sorry,
    I forget who) mentioned she did it because she's a neat-nik for
    soldering, and the bench tends to stay messy. 

    I keep a separate soldering station, but for the opposite reason! My
    soldering area tends to be messy, and I want to keep that mess
    separate from the "cleaner" mess on my bench. I get flux, boric acid
    droplets, solder snippets, splashes of pickle and all kinds of
    general grime and crusty stuff in my soldering area, and I don't want
    to add that to the chaos already on my bench. I honestly don't know
    where I would put everything if I were to try and solder at my
    primary bench. 

    Is it that in a commercial setting you have to keep all of your
    "stuff" in a confined area (your bench), and in a private studio we
    have the luxury of spreading out? For those who solder at the bench,
    is it because you'd lose efficiency having to move to a different
    station to solder? How do you manage all of your soldering bricks,
    jigs, tweezers, chemicals and such, along with your bench tools? 

    I will add that I used to lose a lot of efficiency going from the
    bench to the soldering station until I started thinking about
    ergonomics. I did some minimal rearranging and finally bought myself
    a chair that swivels and has casters... now I just push off and turn,
    and I'm right there! 

All the best,
Dave
Dave Sebaste
Sebaste Studio and
Carolina Artisans' Gallery
Charlotte, NC (USA)
dave AT sebaste.com
http://www.CarolinaArtisans.com



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