Sorry about that. I'm not making the bullet jewelry any more as the vibration from cutting the heads off the shells started messing up the nerves in my hands. But, I enjoyed doing it while it lasted.
Hello, I am an artist looking to attach spent/already fired and cleaned bullet shells together to make a sculpture. Can you tell me the exact materials and brands you used? Im having a hard time soldering or brazing the materials. It's taking too long and the shell is melting and discoloring
Hi Chloe. Solder brazing multiple shells together would not be easy as you heat the shell and it makes the solder soft on the other end of the shell where you just connected it to a different shell. However, as far as heat discoloration of brass, it's always going to happen. If you are sparing on the heat, and you used nickel plated brass shells, your silver solder should blend with the silver of the nickel plating on the shell, and not have discoloration from heat, unless you used the heat for way too long with the torch. It's easy to over heat the material you have a 2000 degree F torch on. You need to move the heat around on the spot at varied distances as not to get the material surface over heated, but just enough to melt the solder. I would advise viewing other DIY solder brazing videos, and ones using it on jewelry. Using a soldering ion on a bullet shell is not going to work as easy as the shell helps to heat sync - or dissipate ion heat too quickly for it to work easily. This is why most jewelers prefer using a pencil torch to solder braze with. I have found some of these torches at Harbor Freight for best prices, but you may be able to find them on Home Depot or Lowe's websites. I get the electronic's silver solder at Fry's - low temp - no lead. You should get some stainless still soldering flux from Granger as well (use a Q-Tip to apply). It's better than flux paste and leaves less residue.
Hope I can help a bit :) Shells are made out of different materials for one. There are aluminum, brass and steel (may be more than that :) ) When it comes to solder, it comes in 3 different "temps" and you can get sheet, wire or paste. You might check out vids from OnlineJewelryAcademy on soldering also :)
Gautam Kumar , please notice these are only spent shells. Plus, even the spent primer caps have been removed after the cutting of the shells had been done. ;)
Wish you had shown the finished piece, along with a finished bracelet?? 😏
Sorry about that. I'm not making the bullet jewelry any more as the vibration from cutting the heads off the shells started messing up the nerves in my hands. But, I enjoyed doing it while it lasted.
Hello, I am an artist looking to attach spent/already fired and cleaned bullet shells together to make a sculpture. Can you tell me the exact materials and brands you used? Im having a hard time soldering or brazing the materials. It's taking too long and the shell is melting and discoloring
Hi Chloe. Solder brazing multiple shells together would not be easy as you heat the shell and it makes the solder soft on the other end of the shell where you just connected it to a different shell. However, as far as heat discoloration of brass, it's always going to happen. If you are sparing on the heat, and you used nickel plated brass shells, your silver solder should blend with the silver of the nickel plating on the shell, and not have discoloration from heat, unless you used the heat for way too long with the torch. It's easy to over heat the material you have a 2000 degree F torch on. You need to move the heat around on the spot at varied distances as not to get the material surface over heated, but just enough to melt the solder. I would advise viewing other DIY solder brazing videos, and ones using it on jewelry. Using a soldering ion on a bullet shell is not going to work as easy as the shell helps to heat sync - or dissipate ion heat too quickly for it to work easily. This is why most jewelers prefer using a pencil torch to solder braze with. I have found some of these torches at Harbor Freight for best prices, but you may be able to find them on Home Depot or Lowe's websites. I get the electronic's silver solder at Fry's - low temp - no lead. You should get some stainless still soldering flux from Granger as well (use a Q-Tip to apply). It's better than flux paste and leaves less residue.
Hope I can help a bit :) Shells are made out of different materials for one. There are aluminum, brass and steel (may be more than that :) ) When it comes to solder, it comes in 3 different "temps" and you can get sheet, wire or paste. You might check out vids from OnlineJewelryAcademy on soldering also :)
Sir is it is safe to solder back on bullet
Gautam Kumar , please notice these are only spent shells. Plus, even the spent primer caps have been removed after the cutting of the shells had been done. ;)