Ellen Metal

Category: solder

  • A Little Closure

    To me, the clasp is one of the most important details on a piece of jewelry. I only use handmade clasps, it seems antithetical to the essence of  handmade to use anything but. Today I finished a round box clasp. In a way I kind of cheated since I used pre-made bezels. I attached it to the parallel…

  • Flux Flummox? Read on…

    When I first started soldering, I would buy pre-made flux from Myron Toback on 47th St. One week however, I found myself out of flux and stuck in suburbia, so I had to hunt down an alternative. Somewhere in my library of technical manuals I found a simple, yet effective recipe for flux. Mix powdered…