Hi Marion,
Noticed on ganoskin that you worked with Felicia. I too, have
studied and worked with Felicia. I have just found that by fusing my
fine silver together rather than using IT solder I get a very clean
area to work in especially if I need very clean seams around my
cloisonnes. IT is great, but you need to know how to use it. I
believe this whole conversation started because someone wanted to
use enamel to weld the pieces of silver together and it didn’t work.
Now, I use IT extensively when working with plique a jour, there is
no other way to solder and solder I must. So, I am not putting it
down at all, just pointing out that you have to be careful with
solder when enamelling.
Jennifer F
Ventura, CA