Louise takes Andrew by surprise and asks him to demonstrate how Piers soldered pearls onto a chain.

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During the live All That Glitters Day After Party that, Louise takes Andrew by surprise and asks him to demonstrate how Piers managed to solder pearls onto chain links. After a few moments Andrew shows you two ways in which this technique can be done. Although he said he would not do it himself using a clients pearls due to the chance the pearls would discolour due to the heat.

[@williamhawkes7437]

Andrew your smiths little torch was difficult to light because of a coke build up around the nozzle..... the simplest way to improve this is to ultrasonic the nozzles periodically, or for a quick fix, you can use a very high grade sand paper around the tip of the nozzle to clean off the coke build up. This works a treat.

[@Atthebench]

Hi Bill. In this case it was because I had only just turned on the oxycon and the oxygen pressure hadn’t stabilised

[@williamhawkes7437]

@@Atthebench ahhh ok cool.... i have the same problem thats all.... how long does the stabilisation take?

[@Atthebench]

@@williamhawkes7437 A couple of minutes for the unit to build up the pressure.

[@tinaday-sloop7258]

I really like your tutorials. I have learned alot. Thank you.

[@12mygirls]

I make bangles with floating pearls. I wrap the pearl in wet towel and hold it over the Pickle pot so only the bangle hits the Pickle. I have blown up a pearl too!

[@omoyemaya]

Could you use Argentium to prevent firescale.

[@Atthebench]

Yes you could if you wanted to use silver

[@jasminhewett580]

Just discovered your videos and loves watching them and your we explanations

[@MariannaOlsen]

Lovely upload. Spontaneous is good if people know to set limits. Thank's L&A!

[@wendyannh]

Very cool. That's what I was figuring I would have to do in order to solder jump rings onto chains of semiprecious gemstones set in those channel thingies whose name I can't think of at the moment but are basically wire wrapping the edge of the stone?
How would water work? In a metal cup or something else? Probably not ideal for pearls, but for other stones?

[@12mygirls]

Weld the wire!

[@JustME-ft4di]

I still want to see how to make a moulted bezel without damaging the stone seen in series 1.