I thought I just saw a post that mentioned making your own tweezers.
Can someone repost this, please?
thx!
brenda
it was a response to one of my questions, re soldering jump rings to
a tube, from Carls:
If I am correct with your concept you are making a piece with
the tube having a chain or cord with the bezels dangling
freely on the tube. It is frustrating when the part that are
being soldered jump about. Your best bet is to get your jump
rings shaped first by solder the seam first, shape, add a
touch more solder on J ring, have the tube anchored well by
good tweezers. Having added extra solder or jump ring have it
secured on a pair of tweezers that you can hold with one hand
and take to the spot youwant to solder, (tip) have your torch
ready with adjusted flame so all you have to do is move it to
point of solder and make sure you have refluxed both before
soldering. One thing I have done and many metal smiths before
me is make a pair or two of locking tweezers by taking a large
heavy duty paper clip and open it up bend around the back part
of tweezers and with pliers twist around two times and leave
enough of the clip to make a instant stand. When you move the
clip up on the tweezers it will lock the tip with jump ring at
tip. Make two pair and you could hold bezel in one, jump ring
in other. The home made tweezers hold a bit snugger then
commercial made ones. Last you can go to Harbor Freight or
find store that sells hemostats or locking scissor type holder
and file off the groves at tip to not mar you work. I hope
this might help. Do not fret even season jewelers have to deal
with the moving jump ring when applying heat.