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My Name is Olivia Competente and I am the jewelry manager at Sharon Art Studio. I work
for the non-profit Friends of the Sharon Art Studio in Golden Gate Park. We are a partnership
between San Francisco Recs and Parks and the non profit which is Friends of the Sharon Art Studio. (music)
Students make various projects depending on their skill level.
We start all the way from the beginning so we try to go slowly and very comprehensively for each
student. And we start with cutting, drilling filing, sanding: the basics, things that are
actually ancient techniques that we can bring in today. And we can go all the way up to
casting, enameling and different new subjects with new kinds of metal.
Today we're going to show how to join silver bezel wire together in which in the end you're
going to actually have a flat backed stone set into a piece. So we've shaped the wire
around a stone. We have no gaps. We are perfectly gapless. We're using a flux. Flux helps solder
flow. And we're placing it on the inside of the seam, and the outside. And we're placing
chips of solder carefully on our seam. So we're still placing chips of solder on our
seam. And we're going to heat our piece. And it takes five seconds for it to flow. And
we're perfectly joined!
Now we're going to join it to a base. There's a little bit of light shining through, but
not much. Take 400 sand paper flat, and you sand in figure 8 motions. Its solder, space,
space, solder... No, not SOS (laughter). I love working with metal and I love all things
color.