Thank you for the kind words! This bracelet was super fun to make and I'm happy with the level of effort required to make it (not too difficult, not too easy). I'm glad youtube sent you back to the new video!

I will try pickle quenching next time! I wonder if my tap water is the source of the cloud... Maybe I should try distilled water, and maybe I should try distilled water to make my pickle too. Thanks for the idea.

@mustachemetalworks even quenching in pickle will cloud it if you get it too hot, just a faint red on the heat works great for annealing on silver / yellow gold, and you can quench yellow gold / silver, don't have to let cool, white gold you gotta get quite a bit hotter and let air cool, the pickle more so saves the fire scale, which is the hard surface to subsurface oxidation discoloration that takes a bit more effort to get shiny / right color. Boric acid powder and ethyl or denatured alcohol in a 1:1 mix to make a slurry, thin layer on the metal, and then light it with a flame to make a oxidation protectant layer is what benchies usually use (thats also what you coat diamonds sapphires and rubies in for retipping / torch work to keep them from scorching). Looks like you got all the basics of everything down and got a sweet shop, just some quality of life tricks will save you some time and effort, anything to save a few minutes makes a big difference over the course of a lot of pieces

I just quenched in pickle last night, it splattered everywhere and the acid totally ate some of my skin.... I'm going to have to learn the right way to do it, because that wasn't the right way.

@@mustachemetalworks haha well good try and it will definitely fuck up your skin, pickle pots with a lid and long copper tongs, make sure not to use anything ferrous based as the pickle will eat it right up, do you have a discord channel or something? Can give you stuller or gesswein links for stuff to make it easier