This jewelry making video shows you the correct way to use a soldering iron when working with beaded jewelry.

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10 Responses to “How To Solder Jewelry”

  1. azulvortez 04. Oct, 2009 at 4:35 pm #

    The soldering technique is incorrect. Even with the correct type of solder you want to heat the metal it’s self in her case the 12 gauge copper wire(copper being another metal you do not want to use in jewelry making). After heating the copper wire at the join touch the solder to the joint. Because the metal is heating the solder not the iron the solder will have a better bond with the metal. However I want to note that I’m not an expert and I only know soldering? for electrical purposes.

  2. fourteenKnuckels 04. Oct, 2009 at 5:01 pm #

    Also never put the iron in your mouth, ears,? nose or other “holes” on your body.

  3. menukiman 04. Oct, 2009 at 5:03 pm #

    No one uses a? soldering iron to make jewelry, you need a torch. Hope she’s not using lead solder! Don’t put soft solder on jewelry or glasses, it won’t hold and I’ll have to charge u extra to remove it and do the job right. This is a terrible video.

  4. 84sprinter 04. Oct, 2009 at 5:47 pm #

    plenty of people use a soldering iron to make jewelry. it’s cheap and easily accessible. there are many methods to fuse metal together and this is one? of them. i highly doubt you’re at home silver brazing so please get off your pedestal.

  5. menukiman 04. Oct, 2009 at 6:42 pm #

    No, I’m in my jewelry store doing doing repair? and custom work. 32 years at the bench put me on this pedestal. Your video is amateurish at best.

  6. pezgirl1973 04. Oct, 2009 at 7:12 pm #

    What a great video. I have the iron already and I don’t like the idea of using a torch,? so this helps out immensely.

  7. music2thepeople 04. Oct, 2009 at 7:56 pm #

    im in a three year jewellery program, we do not use soldering irons we use a torch and our? solder comes in strips not wire. this looks more like soldering people use for electronics not jewellery. What kind of solder was that, definitley not silver or gold.

  8. missmarie273 04. Oct, 2009 at 7:56 pm #

    Awesome advice and you are very clear and concise about it. I’ve been going to my jeweler for small soldering? repair for years and she keeps jacking the prices up on me. I have an ancient silver ring that needs shank repair. With practice and your advice I’m sure it won’t be long till I feel confident to perform these procedures myself. I have a jeweler’s torch though, are soldering irons expensive? They seem so much easier.

  9. ricmanager 04. Oct, 2009 at 8:44 pm #

    How do we get? “sodder” from solder

  10. missmarie273 04. Oct, 2009 at 9:16 pm #

    Silent “l”? ha ha