THE
tip on soldering earring posts!
There are a
lot of excellent posts on how to solder earring posts. I won’t be going into the basics because you
can already find that on-line. Below is a link to an excellent article (with
pictures) by Doug Napier.
So once you
have soldered the earring post onto your earring back …you are left with an
annealed (soft) piece of wire sticking out of your earring. If the wire does not bend out of place the
first time you shove the nut on to the wire, you are quit lucky.
You could
tumble it or oven harden your silver…BUT the BEST way to harden that wire is
to take your pliers and give it a quarter turn.
It is now work hardened!
Now clean it
and polish it up!!! It should wear
without bending now!
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