Monday, April 9, 2012

BeadFest Santa Fe: Sweat Soldering Class

Day 2 began with a trip to the Georgia O'Keeffe museum.  I was aware of her flowers, but really hadn't seen her abstract paintings before.  I love the way she used the color blue in her abstract paintings.  Then I went and found a delicious lunch of dairy-free fish tacos and horchata (oh, how I love thee, horchata.  Y U NO IN MY HOMETOWN HORCHATA???)...ahem. 

Anyway, after lunch I took a class on sweat soldering.  Sweat soldering is a technique for soldering two flat pieces of metal together.  This is also how you set a bezel cup for a round cabochon stone.  I hope to incorporate bezel cups and cabochons into my jewelry....just as soon as I buy *mumble mumble* dollars worth of equipment and supplies.  In class, I made this slightly dorked copper and silver pendant with a lab-created ruby cabochon:
 

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