Soldering Success in Every Scenario

Class Preview

Tackle complex connections with soldering savvy. Learn how to account for your piece’s materials, mass, heat sinks and beyond.

Overview & Key Concepts

Meet your instructor, Jim Dailing, and explore how each lesson will give you skills for assessing different soldering scenarios, choosing a strategy and applying skills that will help you succeed. He’ll also share some essential info for the setup considerations, materials and heating techniques that will come into play for every scenario.

Wire-Based Connections

Explore some basic jewelry-making scenarios where small pieces of wire need to be soldered. Watch as Jim demonstrates how to set up and solder earring posts, small wire elements and a three-dimensional cube.

Delicate Constructions

Build confidence soldering more delicate constructions such as findings without overheating your pieces. From jump rings to a T-bar clasp and a pinback, you’ll see how to avoid mishaps with smarter soldering technique for these jewelry pieces.

Larger Areas & Seams

Turn up the heat as you move on to soldering larger areas and seams. You’ll see how to successfully join a wide-band ring, a two-layered band ring and reinforce the seam of a fold form.

Affixing Smaller Elements to Larger

Find out how Jim tackles soldering smaller elements onto larger one. He’ll show you how to solder bezels onto larger objects as well as how to create a hollow constructed piece.

Mixed Metals

Learn how to solder a simple pin made of mixed metals. Then Jim will guide you step by step through creating a gold and silver ring without fear of ruining your precious pieces or expensive materials.