New to Ganoksin. First soldering Silver project (pendant) - What am I doing wrong?

[Gerald_Livings1]

Copper is hard to solder if you treat it like other jewelry metals. I LOVES oxygen and will create firescale if there is any opportunity.
I posted this in 2003 and it still is good advice.

Soldering copper is easy

I have followed this line of e-mails for a while and just felt the need to add my two cents. I currently live in Madison WI. where I have taken some classes at the U of WI… The instructor of the metals course is Fred Fenster and he is the main reason I went back to school since he is near retirement. In the classes he teaches we would routinely solder very large pieces of copper for rais ing ,sinking , sculpture, etc… the way we were taught is to first use a lot of flux to prevent the co…