Spread the Solder for Your Stained Glass

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Okay so this is I think ready to add. Oh dear, we'll take this off for now that's our extra piece. Now we are going to solder, spread the solder all over and then we will bead it but first we need to add that extra last bit of flux on the lines that we had not fluxed before. Remembering again that this stuff is poisonous do not touch the face or breathe it too much. Now with the soldering iron, we take these beads, we lay it on the bead and we let the solder ooze down the line. We might have to use more solder but we try to use as much of this as possible to tie it together and this goes on and on and on. After you have gotten the lines smoothed with the solder, we will also learn the beading technique which is what we do when the lines come together. We can make it a little line of bead at the top by adding a little extra solder and this gives it not only increased strength but makes it very pretty. Fill it in again, another opportunity for beading here. See how easy it will smooth in when the soldering iron is at the perfect temperature. Here is another opportunity for the beading technique. Then of course since we have my particular style of the holy, the holy glass we will need to solder in between where there is an opening otherwise we will be looking at copper foil which we don't want to see. And as we put all this solder on, it keeps the copper foil from of course disintegrating.

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