Soldering Jewelry for Beginners
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Everything I wish I would have known before learning how to solder jewelry! I made so many mistakes when it came to soldering and melted more silver that I would like to admit! I hope these soldering tips can help your jewelry making journey! You can also visit my Amazon storefront below to shop a lot of the soldering equipment I talk about and use in this video. I do make a small commission off of purchases made through this link at no cost to you!
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I’m an old lady who is struggling with soldering my silver jewelry. I am so close to giving up. Your video is wonderful! Thank you, so much!
Keep at it don’t give up! Im just starting and hoping i will still be doing it at your age :)
Please 😢 dont give up! My skills are lacking.. but the only way to improve is many messed up pieces, tears and thrown tools.
It is so easy to forget in advanced years - this is just what I need anyhow and am grateful for the support. 😉
Thank you for so many great soldering tips!
May I ask what type of material you're using on top of your stainless steel tripod? Is it soldering clay? Thanks for sharing
The growth of your channel is incredible, we are already more than three hundred. When I signed up there were less than a hundred of us, and that was just two weeks ago. Surely your channel will reach incredible brands and in a short time. Congratulations.
You’re so sweet! Thank you, yes I’m just so happy that people find it valuable or entertaining 🥹 everyone has been SO INSANELY supportive over here on RUclips! Supportive, helpful, given me greet advice, genuine constructive criticism, I’m very thankful. Thank you for being here! 🥹🙏🏻
I was just thinking the same! ❤
I di circuit board soldering and was recently asked if I could solder some broken jewellery. I didn't want to dive in head first and say yes, your tips have certainly helped, I just need to try and convert my circuit soldering to jewellery soldering.
Is it possible to do this with a rework station? Or does it need to be a flame for silver solder?
I had to google that lol but looking at it, I don’t think it would work at all 😭 lol. But if you are trying to stay cheap to jump in, you can get any little butane hand held torch from Home Depot and some silver easy solder paste from PepeTools 💜
So glad to see more and more jewelers with youtube channels
Thank you! Yes there are really talented jewelers here on RUclips to learn from! 😊🎉💜
Can you make a video about how your journey started and the first few important tools and materials needed to start learning jewellery making. Loved this video 💞
Thank you for the idea! 🥰💕 I just filmed how my entire journey started up until now, I will also make a video with some of the tools you need to start! 🫶🏼☺️ thank you 💕
This is super helpful! I just got hired by a jewelery store that wanted to train me with their goldsmiths from zero experience!!
What a WONDERFUL opportunity!!!!! TAKE IT!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Soldering paste comes in different levels as well. What level soldering paste do you start out with when you’re very first learning. And can you use soldering paste on brass components as I wouldn’t wanna practice on Sterling or gold? Thank you so much for this video. Your tips have been very helpful. 😊
I’m so glad I can help!! 🥹💜 I used easy solder paste at first! And when I was practicing on brass I used the silver solder paste and it works just fine BUT, they do make solder paste for brass! 😊
Thank you so much for making this positive video! I’ve been struggling with soldering too! Your video was very informative and helpful!
I’m so happy to hear that, thank you! 🥹
Thanks! This is useful. I do wirewraps and have been avoiding soldering because it felt scary. But now that I want to wirewrap a more complicated work, I do think soldering will come in handy!
Use hard solder if possible and use solder strip. Clean the strip every time you use it to clean the oxidation off. It's very hard to clean the chips.
Great advice thank you! 💜
Clean with what? Damp cloth?
Hey, thanks again for these videos. I am working in brass, and the thing I cant seem to do, is make the flat bottom bezel, then the outside around it. I have to lay the outside ontop of the flat brass for the outsides, and solder it all up. But, i was having issues with heat today thought back to this video how your piece is lifted, and was like hmm so I put it on my vise opened the mouths all the way, and that was the trick, it was keeping to much heat in. My pieces are no where near the quality of yours, but one day i hope to be able to silver, and gold smith. My first big pendant, I made out of brass was a lapis one, and the second one im now making is another one but 3/4th smaller. I am gonna make different sets of jewelry, like lapis sets, jade sets, all egyptian, indian, and native american themed pieces. I feel in the ancient pictures, texts, and scrolls that show different jewelry, and some pieces that are in museum's I wanna try to remake them, see if they do anything if that make sense. Anything for science! plus this is so damn relaxing, and sorry for the other comment, your husband is lucky, and your right everyone needs someone like him :) please do not stop making tutorials, im gonna start making connecting clasp, circle clasp, locket clasp, and other types. I wanna test my skills, see whats the ungodly hardest thing for me to make that brakes me down. Ive gotten pretty mad a few times at this stuff, but then realize I am working on a item that is so small, most people can not do it. Then it gives me hope, turn on high vibration music, and get back to wrapping, or making brass.
Nice ring in the opening credit. I'm 1 minute in, and I can tell this is going to help.
Yup 2nd tip in, you've helped me. Solder paste, 😂I get it. Laughing because I have the paste. Omg I'm feeling I jumped into this to fast. 😅
Thank you you're blowing my mind right now😊❤
Have to add I think I can make a solder table with these wire things that go in the gutters. Pretty sure the metal is safe.
Supported you 100% , Great content and keep going dear 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you so so much! 🙏🏻🥹
Beginner? Open flame?
Beginner to me means soldering iron and flux. jmo.
Great video I make Gold Grillz and this video was extremely helpful🙏🏿
I’m happy I can help 🥹
what camera are you using for the close up while doing work?
Thank you. Learned from your experience!
Love your videos, what soldering torch do you use?
How do you resolder a join that came undone
I am now successfully working with jewelry , soldering in metalsmithing after educating myself with this video and others, and I am so grateful for the insight and knowledge. So it is , so more it be . Amen Ase !
Thank you for sharing that with me, I'm so happy I could help you! 🤗
Thank you for sharing! I'm replicating aurora's crown with brass, embedding it with diamonds and engravings and open work.....but..... trying to solder brass is tricky and it's just not working out :(
As in all crafts, it is importand to know what NOT to do and the CORRECT thing to do. This video of a self taught person, gives all the pitfalls before they happen and Mitera tells it how it is. I am just starting out, had one lesson and forgotten all the little tips and inuendoes so this video is so much appreciated as a 'reminder'. Many thanks for sharing. ❤
On the verge of giving up. Last week, I was soldering great. This week, my solder will 👏 not 👏 flow 👏 and I do notunderstand why. I'm doing the exact same steps, using the exact same materials.
I get it, that can be so frustrating, just keep pushing through it! 💜 maybe it could be more of a flame issue or a joint issue? Is your joint super super flush? Are you heating your entire piece and then directing your flame to your joint? Try putting your solder chip under your piece and under the joint and heat from the top 🙏🏻
Also check the date on your solder, it can go bad after a while or if the joints aren't clean enough that's been something that impedes my solder flow every once in a while
What’s the different between using the honeycomb and using a block for solder block soldering?
I have a bunch of Ethiopian opal cabochons and want to make rings and don't know where to start or if it'll be cheaper to take them somewhere and have them made? I have no tools to make anything so I would need to purchase everything. 😫
I am going to try the solder chip when they come out in chicken flavour. 😛
Let me know how it tastes! 🙏🏻
can you tell me where you got that awesome workbench that is sitting behind you? It's seems much nicer than ones I've seen so far.
Thank you for sharing this information! ❤
Anytime!! 💜 I’m glad you found it helpful 💜
Thanks for all the great information but I wonder if you can use a stainless steel hot pot for the pickle because you were talking about that you can’t use metal ?
You actually can! Yesterday I didn’t have enough time to let me crock pot heat up, so I put the salt and vinegar in a tiny pot and boiled my ring on the stove and it WORKED!🎉
Thank you very much!!! Gonna watch more of you video’s!
Do I need to know how to solder if I plan on only lost wax casting?
I would say yes! There are so many times where a ring maybe comes out a little big or small and I need to resize it, or soldering on prongs for certain designs, I’ve even had a porosity spot once that I had to repair that involved soldering. BUT it’s a skill you can pick up quickly through some practice! 🙏🏻
Thank you! I never really knew the logic behind when to use hard vs. easy solder. Great explanation!
This was such a clear video. I have been having a hard time with Sauter and have not had solder paste work for me. What I find is the soldering wire tends to work best. I will keep watching your videos for more tips because I am just getting started
Love your video. Where did you get your work desk?
Thank you!! I found this one on Facebook marketplace place buts it’s a Durston double superior goldsmith desk 💜💜💜
Thank you so much for this. Hugs from Puerto Rico
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This is SO helpful! Thanks very much for sharing your challenges with us.....I know it will be helpful!
I’m so happy to help! 💜💜🥹
Like the desk
Thank you!! Facebook market place 🙈🎉🎉
What work table do you have ?
Her tip If you bezel not right size use a ring Manderl forge it with with gold smithing hammer. Also if you are using solder chip u can make it thin by anelling it with torch then put in rolling mill to make thin has paper. N
Thank you! Those are great tips! ☺️🎉💜
Thank you very much.
hi i only use hard solder throughout the piece and use the torch very carefully, takes a bit of getting used to but persevere saves a great deal of messing around, if for some reason you have to leave the bench and your working on something and you have a memory like mine as in did i use medium or easy solder or even hard solder use one solder throughout no bother, still say its your lighting 🤣🤣🤣, take care keep well keep safe.
Lol that’s true! Sometimes it’s hard to remember what you issued 😂🙈💜 the thing I like about jewelry making is there isn’t really a “right” way that you have to do something, if it works for you than it works and keep on doing it! 🎉🥰💜
what should you do when your trying to solder the bezel strip onto the plate, but the solder rises to the bezel strip instead of the plate?
When you’re making bezel cups heat from below and not the top. If you remember, “solder follows your flame” it will almost always help you figure out what to do differently. 🙏🏻💜
I always heat from the bottom using my grate. Heat the bottom for 90-95%of the time and then when it gets super red and ready, bring your flame to the top of your piece and it will all melt 💜
You are so sweet
Thank you 🥲💜
Thanks sis!
So helpful. Thank you so much. I’m such a beginner and this really helped me!
You’re so so welcome, I glad I could help! 💜
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What torch do you recommend please?
I use the Durston butane blow torch
Thank you
Does solder work for any metals or does it have to be sterling silver or gold?
Some people use silver solder when soldering bronze and that’s ok! So solder can be interchangeable at times but you do generally want to use solder in whatever metal you’re working with. 💜
@MiteraMade So a cheap clasp can be soldered?
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thanx for this guide😘
Of course, glad to help! ☺️
Thank u so much!!!! ❤
Of course! 💜💜
Learned a lot, thanks
I’m so glad!! And you’re very welcome ☺️
LOVE U
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