can never have enough soldering videos, it's something i'm struggling with, i've only just started smithing :) Thank you for your videos!

This is useful when you do a lot of weird shapes and can't clean it afterwards. Love the bloopers!

Love the video proof, I've been trying to explain what I call solder ghosts. Solder is sentimental, it leaves it's ghost when it moves to its preferred location. Don't melt it any place you don't want ghosts! Like you, I dig soldering, always some fun to be had with hot stuff!

Bloopers are magic

Much better method. Excellent film. Thanks Andrew.

Thanks to the inspiration I got from your videos 3 years ago I have learned so much and I'm still very interested in jewelry making and enjoy it as a hobby (albeit an expensive hobby - LOL!). With that said, your soldering videos have been most beneficial and gave me the confidence to try in the beginning; therefore, I often revisit them... especially after a rather lengthy hiatus. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and skills! 🙂

thank you for your videos, they teach many things to me!!!

What a difference. Thanks for the time saving tip.👍

Thanks, Andrew! I always learn so much from your videos!

So helpful! Thank you

Thank you for this video it helped out a lot and saves a lot of work.

Informative and money saving. Cant beat it. Thanks andrew.

Excellent explanation! and thank you very much

Thank you very Andrew much for this helpful tip!

I will be giving this a try on my next solder job. Thanks for the tips and video.

Great. Thank you.

Very good! Bloopers too!

Love this!! I totally agree 100% !! I kinda figured this out along the way. It really does cut down on the clean up time. And I prefer the second one or the sweat soldering.

Very helpful ,have been doing it the first way lot of cleaning be trying second option makes sense thanks

I'm just starting out and I'm loving your professional advice! 🤩 Keep your videos coming! Thumbs up!

Love watching your videos really useful tips. I have learnt so much as an amateur jewellery maker. Thank you 😊

Thanks so much for this tip! I'm still trying to get the hang of soldering and escapee solder is one of my pet peeves! I'll be using this technique on my next project ☺

Thank you this was very helpful,

This is SO interesting! ☺ Thank you.💜👍👍

Love this video! I wish I found this 1 week earlier when I was struggling with soldering an ear post!

Just tried this method today. Cleanest solder join ever. Thank you Andrew!

Thank you i love your Way .

Andrew I'm super happy that you are pumping out videos super regularly again. Love it. Thank u

@StacyClark73

4 жыл бұрын

As am I.

A bit of sellotape burnished up against the protective plastic coating and pulled sharply helps to remove the coating more easily

Awesome thanks, it seems to me as someone who has done much brazing and silver soldering in a structural sense, don’t worry about clean up to much but still think of myself as capable of getting good results. However jewellery is much more visually demanding and therefore requires different techniques thanks heaps

a very nice tip, thanks a lot !

Sounds good for adding decoration to your pieces

Thanks love your videos. Very informative and helpful. ❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊

I'm a techie just getting into this hobbies. One of my favorite things about electronics is soldering. In pcb soldering I tend to prefer this method as well, or at least a variant. We call it "tining".

thanks Andrew!

Put the 'closed captions' on at 9:50 for a bit of fun ! Excellent video! I love the amount of detail here and the fact you're not talking a mile-a-minute to try and pump out a quick 2 minute video (which I have seen elsewhere and no they were not at all helpful...)

Thank you so much . Sir . Very useful

Bravo 👏 You should have been an engeneer. Amazing logic.

Ihre Methode ist wirklich toll alle Tips danke vielmals

I am a newbie jewel maker, your video helping me lots. likes from India

Brilliant ❤

Thank u sir. I really like the second attempt...the second pears stronger and neater. I’ve been looking at riches and would like ur opinion on which to buy. I’ve seen torches from butane to oxygen flame...so much advice out there...thank you ....

Have you read Jeanette K Caines Soldering Demystified? It's an interesting read. She uses solder balls amongst other things. Love how you said you're always learning.

I use that technique alot and like it especially when afixing tube mounting posts on pre-enameled pieces......Question though....do you notice ever that the base metal adsorbs solder alloys on the surface making removal even more difficult? Also when sweating large Ag elements to copper or brass and using hard or medium solder, things get tricky....2 torches....very carefully.. all appreciated..thanks

Hi Andrew, not sure if you are gonna read this, I actually have successfully created some ear studs by watching your videos! I am wondering if you ever do gold plating if you do, can you please make a video? Thank you for all the great videos, I have learnt a great deal!

Hello Andrew! Thank you for your videos. Your attention to detail is wonderful. QUESTION. Where do you buy your borax cone? I love Rio, but I tried to use their cone and it just crumbles like stuck together salt cubes. I have to use a metal spoon to mash down the borax because when I gently try to use the cone, big chunks come off. Help! Thanks, mate.

Hidey Ho Andrew, love these videos. Why do we do the wrong thing when struggling with soldering? As if that’s not bad enough, i insist on repeating the same failed attempt expecting it to magically work this i time

Just curious on your thoughts... In the electronics mfg business years and years ago... we tinned (or soldered) the wires first in a small solder pot before the wires were soldered to pc boards. Wouldn’t this leave even less flow o your piece?

Thank you Andrew! I thought sweat soldering meant something else entirely.

haha, thank you very much :)

Oooh god thank you thank you thank you

Another helpful tutorial Andrew, thanks. Question from a newb: Would this not be a case where wire solder is better than flat pallions? Bits of solder wire could be placed parallel to the ear wire and would flow right in as soon as conditions were hot enough?

@garethbaus5471

2 жыл бұрын

You would need some extremely narrow solder wire if you want to avoid wasting large amounts of solder, but it definitely could create an extremely consistent joint.

xxoxxo @angelaksams : Thank you @andrewberryuk ! Very timely as I am soldering a bunch of earwires today! ;-)

Would using a bit of wire solder work better as it would be just at the fine space between the wire and surface?

Love the bloopers at the end- unfortunately for me that's how my entire silver soldering goes from beginning to end :) I noticed that you pickled the wire after melting the solder on to it and then re-melted it onto the plate- is that a necessary step? And if so why?

With the second method, I was wondering why you don’t get oxidation of the wire just after the first solder? Shouldn’t be a must to pickle it before soldering again? I know it worked but why? Can someone explain how the flux is protecting twice the wire?

What is the acid you are using to soak the metal in after soldering?

Thank you for super Tip

The first one you pulled the heat off sooner. It looked like if you had heated it again it would have been just like the second.

Hi Andrew New to your channel, can I ask when you put a peace your working into acid "What acid is it" please. William

I have a question. You are using borax and flux together, right? Is there a specific reason for that? I only used flux until now and I'm curious what does the borax does.

@Atthebench

4 жыл бұрын

Hi. The borax is flux. We use it in its cone form and rub it with some water on an unglazed dish to make a paste

I make me crazy with this. I work with scrap material mostly making new from old. Any tips when using this type of material. No one gives tips on this type of work

Sir how pure gold coin soldering pure gold strip please guide me.

The Mint, change you can eesr. Yikes!

solder flows everywhere you put flux - if you put the borax not everywhere on the disc, but only on the places where you want solder, you can avoid the additional steps and have the same result.

@Atthebench

4 жыл бұрын

Some people use flux as a fire scale preventative too

Just watched your video. Great info. I make coin rings found your channel from Skylar on The Mibt Coins you can wear. If you choose me, I win a coin ring! Please, choose me!

The Mint, Coins you can wear. Bad typist.

Thank you for putting the "L" in solder.

You do alot of soldering

What about balling the solder first? Same effect as first still?

@Atthebench

4 жыл бұрын

Depends on which way the solder flows first