{"id":405,"date":"2015-06-06T13:47:14","date_gmt":"2015-06-06T13:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/?p=405"},"modified":"2015-06-09T21:01:36","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T21:01:36","slug":"the-best-jewelry-soldering-tip-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/2015\/06\/06\/the-best-jewelry-soldering-tip-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Jewelry Soldering Tip Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

How many times have you soldered on a finding you $\"alignment2\"$ <\/a>
\nthought was perfectly lined up with the rest of your piece,
\nonly to find it is several degrees off center? (And why
\ndoes this become so easily visible only after you have
\nsoldered it on?!!!) Aligning elements for soldering is one of
\nthe biggest obstacles confronted by students and
\nprofessionals alike, and yet the problem has a really easy
\nsolution. In fact, when this idea finally occurred to me about
\nten years ago, my first thought was, \u201cwhat took me so
\nlong?\u201d! When I made a video about it for the Jewelry Arts
\nInstitute\u2019s YouTube channel, I called it\u00a0 The Best Jewelry<\/a>
\n Soldering Tip Ever<\/a>, and I still believe that to be true.
\nFor more helpful tips and information about soldering,
\ncheck out my new soldering book, Soldering Demystified<\/a>\u00a0available on Amazon.com.<\/p>\n

1 Get a new Solderite board and line up the
\nend of a metal ruler with the edge of your
\nboard. Draw the line using a ballpoint pen
\n(the X axis).
\nNote: Ballpoint pens write best on this surface.<\/p>\n

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2 Line up the edge of your ruler with the
\nbottom edge of your block, at 90\u00b0 to the
\nfirst line, and draw this line with your pen
\n(the Y axis).<\/p>\n

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3 For more complicated setups, use an angle
\nruler to draw in 4 more lines at 45 degree
\nangles to your first lines. (Your lines will fade
\nwith use, so freshen them up occasionally.)<\/p>\n

That’s all there is to it and this technique will help<\/p>\n

with lots of different kinds of set-ups.<\/p>\n

Happy Soldering!<\/p>\n

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How many times have you soldered on a finding you thought was perfectly lined up with the rest of your piece, only to find it is several degrees off center? (And why does this become so easily visible only after you have soldered it on?!!!) Aligning elements for soldering is one of the biggest obstacles […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}