Metalsmith Society Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Tips

Recently in my stories I asked for some solder storage solutions. Thank you to everyone who reached out! 🙏🏻😘 Here are a few solutions: 1️⃣ @meritmade shared these fun dishes by @artbyjenf to keep on the soldering table. 2️⃣ @meritmade also shared her... more

Love this storage solution for solder from @annevillejewelrylab - “Storing and transporting #solder is super easy when you use a contacts case.” Thank you so much for letting me share this with our community! Love it 🙌 Comment below with how you store... more

Here is a storage tip for your wire solder from @cirkel.joyas & @arcano.noveno - “Organizing my solder wire has always been a problem for me because I use Soft, Medium and Hard solder, so I don’t want them to be mixed and all around my bench. I used... more

Here is a storage tip from @shira_hanna_designs - “Here’s a great #rainyday organizational tip for the #instasmithies . I pre-prepped my wire solder (silver) and sheet solder (gold) into clean, flat little pallions and then organized them into these... more

Here is a tip to store your solder from @johannah_jewlery - “You can get cheap glass aromatherapy vials and store solder in them. I like to have different color vials for different metals and label the tops easy, medium or hard.” Thank you for sharing... more

This month’s Patreon Q & A is about laying out a studio. It’s going to take multiple videos to cover this topic. In this first one I am simply identifying the main areas of a jeweler’s studio:⁣ ⁣ Workbench: This is where the actual jewelry making... more

TIP OF THE YEAR 🏆 Here is a soldering tip from @marionwild - “I use binder clips on the ends of cross locking tweezers for help with soldering things in place. I prefer this over the swivel base because it’s using gravity to keep the tweezers in... more