How to Make Soldered Jewelry, Episode #5 - Soldering a Basic Bail
hi i'm Lisa Niven Kelly for Beaducation.com
and i am i Superman ski with ever nine jewelry
and we have come together in
this introduction to
soldering series to teach you all kinds
of soldering stuff and in this
particular episode we're going to make a
really simple bail
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this is our shortest episode in our
series it's a really fun quick project
that's really going to elevate your
piece to the next level yeah it makes it
look so much better than just popping a
hole and putting a jump ring in there
we're also going to introduce you to
props using little props to assist in
the soldering of little components and
things yes it's fun enjoy here's how the
layouts gonna look to add this jump ring
to the back to be a bail it's got the
jump ring right here and it's partially
resting on the sterling solar circle
this black dot here is just to mark the
middle it's stamped with the Lotus on
the back so by putting a dot there we
knew exactly where to lay this jump ring
so that it was centered and then here's
a t-bar that it's just used as a prop to
hold it up but because otherwise the
jump ring would be tilted down and it
wouldn't be flush up against the
sterling blank so now I'm gonna actually
take the jump ring off so that I could
flex and
use the little spritz
there we go
and place this right back in the same
spot
making sure that my scene is right there
in the middle so that when I solder it
it will solder the scene shut and it
will solder this jump ring too
the placement palying here leaning right
on there and perfect it's got to be
touch from the jump ring
put slaughter that to the circle and we
also want to touch in the scene so it
kind of sucked up in the scene
heating heating heating I'm not putting
any heat on the jump ring and putting
all the heat on the plane because the
jump ring will just be properly warm and
I have to take all this without getting
it the big blank will transfer to the
jump ring in there you see how it flowed
a nice bright silver flash it's got the
jump ring flush to the blank and it also
jumped up the seam I'm gonna pick it up
and quench it and then we're gonna go
and see how it comes right off the t-bar
and then we're gonna go and pickle it
and know we will be right back i pickled
the piece took it out and patina'd it
and i put two jump rings on the top just
cuz I really liked that look but look
here's our little bail that we just made
that looks sweet so I've also hung it
from my one of my other favorite chains
besides popcorn chain is a ball chain
and it doesn't come oxidize like this I
just want to point out I've dipped it in
and out of the jacks silver blocking her
and then polish it up I just really like
the way that it looks so now you know
how to do a simple bail
you could get nuts from here you could
make the bail bigger smaller obviously
you could texture the jump ring before
soldering it on you can try to flatten
it a little bit maybe either add texture
with your chasing hammer or some stamps
there's all kinds of fun options
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