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All hammered out!
Daisychain Jewellery | November 20th 2008 by Joanne Tinley
At first glance this photo may not look much different than this one, apart from the angle, but I promise you that a lot of work has gone on between each photo shoot!Today has been a day of hammering, and my shoulders are definitely telling me that I read more
Soldering an art....
Lampwork Diva | November 19th 2008 by Cindy Gimbrone
Soldering, whether in stained glass work or in metalsmithing is a fine art. I've been working in metals during the last few weeks but the creative muse in me wanted to change directions - but still using the cabachons I've made. So, it's on to staine read more
Flux it!
Lampwork Diva | November 18th 2008 by Cindy Gimbrone
Lesson learned.What you ask?Flux it! I say!You say, "excuse me?"Flux it!Flux it!Flux it!No, I'm not swearing in another language. I was swearing though when I was soldering a few cabachons and the solder wouldn't stick. I thought I was just lousy at read more
Fusing vs. Soldering
SHI | October 26th 2008 by Shi
So I saw this really great book on fusing silver. I was in a hurry, didn't have a chance to purchase it, but flipped through it really quick. I was pretty excited at the thought not having to solder, plus it showed you can hammer the piece after fusi read more
Soldering Gods
Fiber, Art & Creativity | October 25th 2008 by barbe saint john
The soldering gods do not smile upon me today...sigh.................. I can not get any of these bezels flush with the sheet metal.. Doesn't help these are big pieces I'm making. I think-"I could do them if I had some binding wire", so I go digging read more
I Went Pink For Deryn Mentock’s Joujou Charm Keeper Workshop
Perpetualplum's Weblog | October 20th 2008 by Plum
As promised I thought I’m publishing photos of my finished necklace from Deryn Mentock’s Joujou Charm Keeper workshop. I had a wonderful vintage orphaned earring and some sparkly buttons in pink, so I decided to go pink for my Joujou Ch read more
PLUMBING FUN
Butchy & Snickers - 2 Wild & Woolly WFT's | October 12th 2008 by Butchy & Snickers
Hey Pals,What a long boring Saturday we have had & half of today. This is all we have been doing since Mama & Papa were working on the plumbing problem:This is Snickers & Ruby:And this is me Butchy:We can happily say that the plumbing pa read more
DIY - Soldering BGA IC on PCB
Your Electronics Open Source Newsletter | October 7th 2008
DIY: soldering BGA ICs on PCB in your garage/lab without professional facilities. It is a headache to have a BGA IC mounted on the PCB if it is a small project. Today I want to share something about soldering. read more read more
POST BIRTHDAY & WATER LEAK
Butchy & Snickers - 2 Wild & Woolly WFT's | October 6th 2008 by Butchy & Snickers
Hey Pals,I wanted to thank everyone for the wonderful birfday wishes & cool birfday cards! Here are some cards that I received:From Asta:From Chef:From Lacie, Scruffy & Stan:I also received some cool ecards from Gussie, Molly & Taffy, th read more
Soldering and Getting Ready for Some Metal Hammering
Perpetualplum's Weblog | October 3rd 2008 by Plum
I’ll be taking a jewelry class later on this month. One of the items on the list of supplies was a suede sandbag for hammering against. Normally I would just go out and buy it. I already had a little bit of suede I’ve been saving. read more
APNIC Box - Linux on a Mikrotik 532a, Part 2
Adam's Info | October 1st 2008
Follow on from 01 Oct 08 APNIC Box - Linux on a Mikrotik 532a, Part 1 Custom Hardware Modifications Here’s a labelled image of the inside of the device. You can also look towards the bottom left of the image for my simple solder modifications. read more
Art Sunday was All About Using a Soldering Iron
Perpetualplum's Weblog | September 29th 2008 by Plum
Our art group, the Washington County Mixed Media Artist held our monthly meeting in my garage to do some art yesterday. Denise was demonstrating soldering. Although I soldered, it was my first time using copper tape with a soldering iron and read more
Getting the feel for Soldering
Silver Canyons Happenings | September 22nd 2008 by Silver Canyons
I was so excited to receive some spectacular Ocean Jasper beads that I had been eyeing for weeks. These beads were so pretty and I decided to go all out and make a necklace.... and didn't want to use ordinary chain.So, I let my imagination take over read more
New Bracelet!
Designs by Reese, Unique Handcrafted Jewelry | September 21st 2008 by Reese
This has been my project all weekend. I combined rectangles crafted out of precious metal clay (PMC) with sterling silver links formed out of wire. The wire was shaped into circles, soldered and polished. I treated the whole bracelet to bring out a l read more
Got A Lot Accomplished!
SHI | September 19th 2008 by Shi
So I took today off of work to take care of a few things. First was purchasing a Main Showcase on Etsy, they always become available while I'm at work and I didn't want to miss out on it. I'm hoping it'll get me some more exposure!Second was solderin read more
Soldering
SHI | September 17th 2008 by Shi
I didn't post anything yesterday so I wanted to add something today. I took tomorrow off and I'm going to be trying my hand at soldering some sterling silver rings. I have my fingers crossed that everything will go well. I've been watching soldering read more
I’m a member of the Six Inch Square Club for Messy Artists
Perpetualplum's Weblog | September 13th 2008 by Plum
Agnes the Red started a flickr group for messy artist. It’s called the Six Inch Square Club. To join you have to show some of your workspace. Although, it’s very embarrassing, I decided to photograph some of my spaces. This is read more
Millard Lumber’s How to Series Online [Home Improvement & Repai…
The Best Free Training | July 14th 2008 by Mike G
Topic: How to build and repair almost anything in your home Format: Printed guidelines with step-by-step diagrams, text explanations & tool/material checklists Reviewer/email: Mike G - greers_pm@yahoo.com Millard Lumber says its how to series read more
More Belated Art & Soul Goodies
3 AM Designs | June 18th 2008
My second day of classes at Art & Soul was just as much fun as the first - maybe more! It was a little more stressful, but still a lot of fun. Sally Jean Alexander taught us to make these adorable little houses. The class was called, "Little Pink read more
Its Friday!!!
Azure Islands Designs | June 6th 2008 by azureislands
Good morning... someone said something to me yesterday that made me stop and think about how I post on my blog...Erin, from "jewellery by erin", told me she stops by every morning to see if I've added anything new!!! That statement was an eye opener read more
Metalsmithing Tip Of The Day - Soldering
Filed Fingers | May 2nd 2008 by Nicole Isaacs
Just a friendly bit of advice here; When soldering, ALWAYS use insulated tweezers, because even if the piece you are holding isn't hot, when you touch it to a piece that IS, you still get burned! Thank you, the end.-Nicole :) read more
Working on My Sea Glass Pendant Tutorial
Accent Yourself Handcrafted Jewelry | March 30th 2008 by Barb Macy
Well, I spent most of the day & evening working on a tutorial for making a bezel set sea/beach glass pendant. It is something I've been wanting to do for a very long time, so yesterday, I got out my camera and started taking pics of the entire pr read more
384 Soldering Points
Olympus Mons | March 13th 2008 by Laundro
Last night I got to the Studio at 7.30pm. Of course after hitting up Home Depot for some seriously cool metal self-drilling screws. They were for the mic panel boxes that have been living in our interim studio gear depot. Also know as the dinning roo read more
You smell something burning?
Curly Girl Chronicles | March 7th 2008 by Curly Girl Glass
Two things you should know about me: I don't smoke and I virtually live in fleece (no, no I'm not proud of this, but I work at home, by myself and it's warm, fuzzy and comfy). Therefore I find it distressing when I'm working and have a brain fart or read more
My DIY Enhanced Night Vision Mod for PSP
Simon Tay | March 1st 2008 by Simon Tay
Enhancement PSP Nightvision - The most popular videos are hereThis mod I soldered overnight learning from Metacafe's kipkay video on the IR Led modification and Acidmods.com's night vision modification to PSP Camera.It's not fantastic now as the IR read more
Make Your Own Cables and Save Big!
The Stereo Bus | February 28th 2008 by Dan Connor
This post focuses on how to create your own cables using raw connectors and bulk cable. There are some great advantages to making your own cables: you determine the quality, you choose the length, it’s usually cheaper, and you learn in the proc read more
This Spot Is For Sale
EWare City | January 26th 2008 by EWare City
Buy this spot for only $1 per month! read more
Soldering Tools & Supply List
Accent Yourself Handcrafted Jewelry | January 21st 2008 by Barb Macy
I just cleaned up my jewelry workspace because I got a few new toys to play with. Nothing terribly expensive, but fun, nevertheless. I visit & participate in a few jewelry forums and one topic that routinely comes up is "tools & supplies need read more
Another day!!!
Azure Islands Designs | January 16th 2008 by azureislands
Here is my badge from EJAI have another wonderful treaury by nanasbowterrific here: http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=23590I took a course in fabrication this summer, which I very much enjoyed...this winter I plan on experimenting to see read more
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