How to Solder the Joints in Your Stained-Glass Art

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Okay I have done most of the soldering; soldering can take a little bit of time. One thing to keep in mind is that your iron does need to be hot enough to melt solder, especially this kind of thick solder, you might need to make sure that iron gets really hot before it melts it. This is still a little bit sloppy but that is okay because once you have applied solder to kind of all the joints, you want to pay particular attention to all the joints. And then as you applying it to that foil you want to make sure that it flows in kind of between the cracks and it is also getting in-between those pieces. Once you kind of have that done on one side, you can do it on the other side and again this is a little bit sloppy but the nice thing is we can clean it up later. Also if you can see, I have also just taken a very thin bit of solder and have just kind of run it around the outside to just kind of tin the foil on the outside, it just kind of gives it a nice sort of finished look. Now this isn’t quite finished, what I might want to do is just now I know I’ve got enough solder there to make the joints so what I will probably do is go back to my iron and kind of smooth out these beads a little bit. Remember you want solder in-between the gaps of the, of your pieces, but then on top you want kind of a nice smooth bead like this and I can improve this a little bit, it is a little bit too thick here and a little bit too thin you know over here so I am probably going to kind of smooth it out a little bit. So now I am just kind of cleaning up these solder joints just so they look a little more attractive, you know the nice thing about solder is that once it is there you can reheat it and reheat it as many times as you want, move it around and kind of get it looking good. You see that there is a little bit of soot in this solder, you can kind of remedy that by cleaning your tip frequently, okay so I am going to do that and I am just going to kind of you know, I mean my little project is assembled now so it is not going to come apart so now I am just really concerned about kind of getting a nice even bead of solder all the way around and so you can see I’m kind of going that by just kind of pulling a bead across one line and kind of doing it in one unbroken motion and that really kind of cleans up that bead. So I am going to keep doing this on one side, the solder actually has kind of a consistency, almost like molten wax while you are doing this so I am going to kind of finish this on one side, just kind of make my nice little consistent beads on one side, then on the other, then I am going to take it to the sink and wash it with soap and water.

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