How-to-Solder-Jewelry
Loveland, Colo.: Jewelry Making Daily introduces a free eBook loaded with essential information to equip beginners with basics and ideas for making beautiful soldered jewelry. Soldering lets you do the seemingly impossible: take two pieces of metal and create one single piece of metal with them. Although learning how to solder jewelry is a big step, it's one that can save you time and effort -- even money. Connections that don't involve silver solder or a torch might be easier to make in some cases, but for some designs a solder join really makes the most sense. With the basics covered in the free eBook, experienced or beginners alike can learn how to solder jewelry.
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Various types of jewelry solder are available, and come in different forms. The eBook covers when to use each one and includes convenient reference charts that will make it easy to figure out exactly what jewelry soldering supplies are needed. The free guide is a great resource to learn about various jewelry soldering supplies like: Solderite, soldering tweezers, torches, and irons. Jewelry makers that have been creating unsoldered jewelry, either with beading, wire wrapping, or cold connections, have probably come across occasions when things would have been simpler for if they’d just known how to solder.
The eBook can be downloaded online at: http://www.jewelrymakingdaily.com/
The introductory guide provides expert advice on setting up a jewelry soldering workspace that is dedicated to soldering so that jewelry artisans can feel confident about working with hot metal, an open flame, and fuel for a torch. There are safety precautions to take when jewelry soldering. Make sure you take safety precautions seriously; using protective eye-wear and have a fire extinguisher near your solder station.
Jewelry soldering involves specific tools and materials and a special vocabulary that is standard among jewelers. Solder is an inexpensive alloy, a mixture of two or more metals, usually silver and zinc. Silver, copper, bronze, and brass are almost always soldered with silver solder. Included in the free eBook is a glossary of all the specialized terms encountered with soldered jewelry, the basic jewelry soldering supplies, tools, and equipment.
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