Hi Greg I hope that you are well. Thanks for another great video. Not sure how I missed this video until now, as you say we can all make mistakes and forgetting one of the five, or simply thinking, "I'll get away with it this time". That always always catches me out!! It's usually the cleaning that I think I can get away with. I use Easyflow 2 flux which has good cleaning properties and I push my luck too far sometimes. Thanks to your help I'm enjoying my new hobby and I'm pleased to say that every month folks are buying my work. All the very best to you. Kind regards . . . Andy

Your videos are so informative and helpful! Keep them coming! Thank you

Learned a lot from you Greg! Just made an almost perfect ring using your tips❤

Great to hear you again. Always great advice!

Thank you so much. Such helpful reminders that are so easy to forget! Will keep my solder super clean from now on!

Thank you so much for another wonderful video! You're an amazing teacher!

Always grateful to learn from your years of experience!! It's always an honor to get a lesson from the studio. Thank

Greg a great video - again! Lots of dangers and tips one learns over the years, but then somehow momentarily seem to forget, especially when the pressure is on to get a piece out! This video I'm sure will save a lot of cursing!

Another excellent tutorial. Forwarding this to my students.

Such awesome advice about flux! Thank u for posting ur great hints and knowledge!! 👏👏👍

Such a helpful video for newbies and a good reminder for those who are just past newbie status. Thanks for your time and knowledge!

Thank you, sir! Just about to go back to the bench after a couple of year’s absence. Making a birthday present for a friend. These tips are right on time for me. I’ve had trouble with solder joints (and thank you for the reassurance that all jewelers have had solder fails) and some of this was caused by not realizing the solder was about to flow. I had one teacher that kept saying, “look for the flash right before it starts to flow”. The what? It was like a religious experience for some. “I saw it! I saw the flash!” I wanted to shout, “hallelujah!”. Finally another teacher told me that i was seeing well and told me i had to get up close to the flame and not be afraid of the torch. Nothing about a flash. That and an optivisor really improved my success rate. You are in that same class of teacher. No mysticism, just facts and well-filmed examples. Thank you!

Great. As usual.

thank you so much for this!!!

Excellent video as ever.

thank you so much for this video, I love your way of explaining, very informative and as well gripping. With your explanation I actually understand now why the mistakes that I kept doing happened all over again and again and how to prevent them. Before that, they were just mistakes and I didn't understand what was happening. I am super excited to go to my workbench tomorrow and try again and again ...and again!

Brilliant summary. 💯

Thank you!!!

good teaching

Hi could you do a video on how to solder a crystal or stone to silver, specifically Argentium please 🙏🏻 Great videos 👍🏻

Thanks for this Greg. As always your videos are easy to understand and provide excellent information. One question. Some silversmiths I’ve watched colour code their solder with marking pens. Do you see this as a mistake and should be avoided?

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Please make a video on how to make silver solder, what metals are mixed into silver, what percentage of silver and what percentage of other metals is good for making silver solder😅 thankyou!!

Thank you master! I used have problems with yellow ochre, so used to clean and redo it all the time. One question, let's say when soldering a cylindrical tube on a flat surface for example, like the end attachments, do I need to file the flat surface cylindrical? What if I have file that is too big than the tube? What to do in that case?

Good job.👍🍻 What model torch?

Thanks for the Video. Maybe you can Tell me why my soldering Points on my silver jewelrys are always darker thank the complete surface? I try it with soft, middle and Hard soldering, and also with hard solder which i Alloy with 20% more fine silver to keep it more white, i always clean the solder and the surface from the jewelry but the soldering Points are everytime visible even after Polishing.

Greg, can you show a tutorial how to solder coin together? coin belt

Hi greg, do you think it would be possible to make a video on tips and tricks for flush setting? i am just learning this technique in school but find it to be tricky to control the setting burr so that the stone fits just right and perpendicular to the metal surface. I must be tilting the burr because in my test pieces the stones are often tilted when I try and burnish set them...Any guidance would be so appreciated!

Hi Greg, very good video. Do you know if silver can be alloyed with palladium? I have heard of 99% silver with 1% palladium for jewelry work. It is said to be 3 times as hard as 925 silver and hardly tarnish at all. I also imagine that it is harder to solder and work on. do you know anything about this?

Hello sir🙌 I'm sorry sir. I want to ask a question but it might be strange. Can this silver solder be applied to iron-containing media such as stainless steel? Because I saw some stainless soldering videos on KZfaq using silver wire. Thank you sir!