If you need an inexpensive heat protectant or prop for soldering, use this tip from @makeitkimtoday - “Potatoes can be a useful addition to your soldering set up. They can be used as heat sinks to keep elements cooler while soldering such as pushing a setting into the potato while soldering other elements on. Potatoes are also great for supporting work while soldering. You can carve into it to hold pieces at specific distances and angles and even carve bits of potato off to expose more of your jewellery or to build up extra support under parts of your design. Potatoes are cheap, easily accessible and smell like chips when they start to 'cook' under the blowtorch 😂” Thank you for sharing this 🙏 Over four years ago I had a really hard repair on a piece with an opal and I was so desperate I reached out to my old coworker @hnossdesign and she suggested I use a potato as a heat protect and IT WORKED. This genuinely inspired me later on to start Metalsmith Society, so that people could connect to share those tips (nothing proprietary) but things that would help each other out. 💓 Look at us now! We are all killin it! #metalsmithsociety #jewelrytipoftheday