Comments on: Guest Project — Make Soldered Pendants {tutorial}

By: Jeannine

Jeannine — Sun, 13 Apr 2014 16:08:44 +0000

One note – it should be lead free solder.

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By: Shelia

Shelia — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 17:14:05 +0000

Best soldering instructions EVER. I have always been timid about trying this and found your instructions and photos expertly fill in the missing pieces of every other soldering tutorial I have read. Thank you!

By: Kathryn Lloyd

Kathryn Lloyd — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 22:53:01 +0000

Jen,
I have a question about soldered pendants. I am using photos on real Kodak photo paper that I size in Photoshop and have printed out at Walgreens (better resolution than my ink jet printer at home). Problem is that when I begin soldering the pendant, the heat maybe — something causes a reaction between the photo and the glass. At first I thought the flux seeped in between the glass and photo, giving the illusion that the photo was wet. I changed to a paste flux, but that didn’t help. I tried using ModPodge to seal the photo, got texture marks on the photo. I tried a coating of ModPodge in between the glass and photo, pressing out bubbles. At first it looked like this might be the answer, but days later the ModPodge has not dried and is still cloudy. I’ve tried photo fixers, resin in between, etc. I don’t know how to get around this problem and have a clear, clear photo in the finished item. I still think there must be a fix for this. A photo print is a continuous tone print, not like the ink jet printers and the resolution is much finer, so I’m determined to find a way to make this work, but so far, no answers yet. Do you have any ideas?

Thank you!

By: Patti

Patti — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:47:18 +0000

just bought my supplies yesterday… and ready to get started on my project today! CAN'T WAIT! Thanks for sharing!

By: Alisha

Alisha — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 20:31:33 +0000

How cool! I really want to try this! Thanks for the tutorial.

By: MiMi

MiMi — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:40:12 +0000

So cute! I bet I could srsly hurt myself with that souldering gun.

By: Laura @ live.laugh.photograph

Laura @ live.laugh.photograph — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:57:44 +0000

WOW! this is sooo neat! I made a bezeled photo necklace and have a tutorial on that. Sorta the same thing :)

Anyway, I love your blog!! It is my dream to one day be featured on here! hehe

By: parkerpost

parkerpost — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:32:46 +0000

where did you get the soldering iron stand? Love it. Much better than what I have been rigging up. Thanks for sharing.

By: laurie

laurie — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:33:49 +0000

that is beautiful,, really nice and what a lovely gift.