[Jewelry making - Article 00965] - Re: [Orchid] Elementary problems with fabricating a pendant

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Dear Will
  
>        1) how do I solder the rod to the bezel + back sheet?; 
 
    If the problem is that you are afraid to melt the previous
    solderings then the answer would be to use a solder with a lower
    melting point, but it can also be done  with care even on silver.
    Gold should not be a ptrblem at all because its lower heat
    conductivity. 

>          how do I curve the rod, so that it looks a stem?; 3) I suppose
>     that the answer to questions # 2 is rather simple if the rod is
>     solid. However, suppose I work with gold, then a solid rod is too
>     expensive. How can I curve a hollow rod (tube) so that it looks
>     like I want? 
 

    To bend the stem, there are a few tricks, some of which has been
    seen here previously. Mainly the idea is to put something into the
    tube while bending thus avoiding it to "splash" together. 

    Some use a closely fitting spring, which afterwards can be
    retracted. 

    Some use a rod of less noble metal (iron or brass, which is my
    favorite) and etch it away afterwards. 

    You can also cork one end of the tubing, fill in some sand corundum
    or salt, stamp it well and cork the other end and bedn the tube.
    Remove the corks and shake out the filler. 

    There also is a very low melting alloy ( melts around 95 deg. C),
    which you melt in, bent your tube and afterwards remove by simply
    boiling. Mine was sold under the name of "Ezi-Bent" or something like
    that. The backdraw with Ezi-Bent is that it contains lead and that
    you must be absolutely sure it is totally removed before heating the
    piece to much more than 100 deg C. It also should help to boil the
    tube/piece in hydrocloric acid with a good splash of hydrogen
    peroxide. 

    Let us hear how you do and what the results are. 

Kind regards from sunny Bornholm
Niels




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