When using the metal as a hanger or connecting piece this will allow you to know what size metal wire, etc. Know the melting point of the metal see chart below that you want to incorporate.
This will also allow you to compare this to the needed firing schedule to kiln fire your glass project to the form desired. Important details when fusing metals with glass: A. Facebook Email Print Twitter Pinterest. Recent Posts. In addition to requiring flux , hard solders generally also require the use of pickling solutions to clean and remove surface oxidation from the finished piece.
Gold solders are generally used only for making gold jewelry while copper, brass, and bronze solders are typically used to make copper, brass, and bronze jewelry respectively. Use a butane torch to solder jump rings, create ball-end head pins, make custom wire links and chain, create small bezels, fuse together small metal components, etc.
Confusion sometimes arises because the lowest-temperature "hard" solder is sometimes called "soft" solder. A better term might be "easy" for the lowest temperature hard solder. Hard solder typically comes in "easy," "medium" and "hard" grades. To create a complex piece, start with hard solder, then fuse the next elements with medium solder.
Add the last parts with easy solder. This way, the solder holding the first elements will not flow or move while subsequent parts are assembled. We carry the following hard solders, compatible flux, and pickle: Silver Solder Variety Pack Contains cadmium-free sheets of easy, medium and hard grade silver solder.
Each grade melts at a different temperature. Use to solder complex pieces with many joints. Hard Grade Silver Solder Cadmium-free sheet solder. Excellent for the first stage of soldering a complex piece with many joints. Here are our top 4 tips on how to solder silver to copper: 1. Try sweat soldering A simple way of soldering together a piece of copper and a piece of silver is to use a technique called sweat soldering. Now, with a small amount of easy silver solder coated in flux and placed at the very end of some fine tweezers, you can begin to heat it with your hand torch.
You will have to move quickly, as the silver solder will start to ball up rapidly. As you see it ball up, place it onto the underside of your silver sheet until it flows across the surface.
Place your silver sheet to one side and apply a small amount of flux to the top side of your copper sheet. Make sure the area that is covered is roughly the same as the size of your silver sheet.
Once the flux is applied you can place the silver sheet on top of the copper sheet, ensuring that the solder is face down on the copper sheet.
Now heat the silver sheet in a circular motion until the silver starts to reach annealing temperature or begins to glow a dull cherry red colour. If however a piece is heated slightly too much, the metal will tend to clump and create a very organic result not always a negative result, but it can be hard to control.
Image 2 Some problems that may happen with fusing. Soldering creates a bond that, while not as strong as a fused joint, when cleaned and finished properly, is virtually invisible. Using pure metals in jewelry has some pros and cons as well. Pure silver will never tarnish like sterling silver will, but because it contains no copper or other metal to make it a harder alloy, it is incredibly soft and not suitable for some jewelry applications.
Rings and bangles made using fine silver may bend and become mis-shaped, whereas making chain links or bezels using the same material can have some wonderful results. Because fine silver is so soft and malleable, creating textured links and components is fun and easy.
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