[Jewelry making - Article 00649] - Re: [Orchid] Argentium blog

[M'lou Brubaker]

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>     Oh, rats, no wire solder?  I'll take what I can get, but wire
>     solder has always been the easiest for me to use. 

    I routinely cut sheet solder into thin strips and hold it in
    cross-locking tweezers to use as wire solder would be used from the
    coil. I can get varied thicknesses that way. I have also forged out
    wire solder (or you could roll it out) and cut it with shears along
    its length, to get thinner wire solder, or to cut snippets. Whatever
    I have on hand,I use. Probably it will all be available some day, if
    we all really start using a lot of Argentium. 

    So far, I have found that Argentium makes nice head pins for pearls,
    with a good smooth ball end. I used it to trap clusters of pearls on
    either side of a chain, melting the final ball very close to the
    pearl with my propane-ox little torch, tip # 4. It worked very well. 
    (Ball end, pearl, goes through chain, pearl, ball end. ) I used 24 or
    26 gauge wire. Just a slight buffing was required after the final
    ball was melted. 

M'lou Brubaker, Jeweler
Goodland, MN
www.craftswomen.com

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