[Jewelry making - Article 00346] - Re: [Orchid] Copper solder

[Noel Yovovich]

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>     Tried again using the street sweeper "bristles" I've picked up
>     while walking Scooter. Viola!!! Beautiful bright copper-plated
>     solder seam! 

    You can get the same results by wrapping a few turns of binding wire
    around your finished piece and tossing it in used pickle. It would
    probably also work to hold the piece in your steel tweezers, unless
    thay are stainless steel. But the binding wire is best, in my
    experience. 

    BTW, Indian Jewelry's Fos-flow #7, which is intended for copper, is
    the best match I've found but is still more gray than it is
    copper-colored. 

Noel
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