What to buy?
Ok - I've done a bit of soldering of silver in the past in a jewelry class - did so-so. At home I have a basic setup and have done a few more pieces with some pleasant success. But it's all been with items that i had left from class - nothing that I've bought on my own.
So I'm going to make some clasps - I made this one:
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g299/JulieBiv2022/FinishedforSolon_2.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g299/JulieBiv2022/FinishedforSolon.jpg
first bezel:
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g299/JulieBiv2022/FinishedforSolon_1.jpg
And so my idea is to take this clasp design - improve it a bit - and solder on a few bezeled cabs (mailled and solid bezel) for more decorative jewelry purposes (and I hope - if I can get pretty good at crafting and polishing - to be able to sell them)
However - I don't have any sheet silver. In fact, the sheet silver that I had, before, was from my jewelry making class - so now i have to order my own and I don't know what guage to get.
I, also, don't know what flow of solder to buy. In my class we used solder that came in small sheets - medium flow (or is it hard flow? Does that make sense for a beginner soldering class?) I *think* it was medium flow - I have a sheet of easy-flow that we didn't use. I just know that what we *did* use was different.
I'm *thinking* of ordering some:
*medium-flow silver solder sheets
*22 guage sheet silver
*24 guage silver strip
From Rio Grande - but would this be similar to what I used, before?
Thanks for your help :)
Oh - and should I buy some red rouge for polishing?