It's Fluxing Success!

YAY! I finally successfully soldered a few of my cabs and added a little bit of wire "filigree." I made the cabs - one is a painted bead that had rough beadholes so I slumped it into a cab. The other cab is a made of glass "shorts" that was fused and ground into a square shape.

I must admit that adding the filigree was the hardest part - I think I need an extra hand to do it again! LOL! I used a bench clamp to hold the piece while I added the filigree.

If you solder jewelry, how do you hold the piece so you can solder on a jump ring or other decoration?

Nostalgia or I'd rather burn than bleed

I'm taking a walk down memory lane - or how I became a flamework/lampwork glass artist instead of stained glass. You're looking at the one and only piece of stained glass art I ever made. What you don't see is the $50 worth of glass I cut to bits trying to learn how to cut glass - I did alot of cutting, yeah but of my hands and not the glass! Lots of blood was spilled making this piece.

I took intro to stained glass along with my into to lampwork class - lampwork was where I burned myself - so I made a choice - do I want to bleed or burn for my art?

I'd rather burn than bleed.