Wow! thank you Babette !

Thank you!

Maybe because they are "easy" to ruin by pressure, and hard to (unless someone knows a trick, to not needing to take it apart and resolderit) repair. I own an oldcross, that someone must have bitten into, with engravings, that has 2 or 3 dents, that I'm not eager to start to try to repair - can't find anything anywhere about how to.

Thank you so much.

I hope it helped you.

Thank you for your kind words. I'm going to be creating new videos on making silver jewelry. I hope to see you back again.

Thank you!

Thank you so much Lori! You can see more of my jewelry pieces at www.janetalexander.net

Thank you!

That is a wax stick, I bought them at microtools.com

If you mean the sides, I used Sterling Silver 5 x 1.5mm Rectangle Wire, Dead Soft sold by Rio Grande Item #: 100554

It's just a cheap craft brush. I mix Handy Flux with My-T-Flux. Handy Flux gives a temperature reading, when it goes clear, the metal is up to temperature. The My-T-Flux is a self pickling and cleans the metal for a more successful soldering experience

I just watched some of it, he is a very pessimistic person toward the arts. Everyone is creative, in their own passion. He sounds like one of the promoters of removing art from schools, which has become so sad to see. Creative people include actors, video game animators, film animators, playwrights, landscape architects, building architects, musicians, any entertainer, painters, sculptors, furniture designers, car designers, and so on. Not one manufactured item in this world wasn't created by a creative person. Many have become successful in their art. It's just that a lot of artists are not trained in business and promotion. I have a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of North Texas. At that time they didn't require art majors to take accounting and business classes. I wish I had. Many people have a hard time selling, which is why there are specific people who excel at it. It takes a certain personality to sell art or that matter anything that doesn't pertain to survival.

@@JanetAlexanderJewelry I see your viewe of the definition as degrading the word. If everyone is creative, the word is waste of time. It's like saying "All humans are breathers" - a waste of time sentence. I agree with the part about not being able to make cash, bcz we didn't know enough about it, but that goes to every personally owned job. And a stroll around most curent art galleries prove, that it has very little to do with the quality of the art, who gets to be attempted monitized. When most people can do something, it's nothing special, and that's the case with most modern art.