Finished another small piece today. Next comes clean up, and Ill need to pickle the piece, which is a solution that cleans flux and oxidation from the metal. After pickling hollowware metal ill have to induce it to a baking soda and water solution to neutralize the pickle. If you leave pickle inside of a piece overtime it will continually eat away at the metal in this case the copper. After neutralizing, the filing and sanding begins to refine all of the edges and sloppy solder work. It would be nice to be able to solder perfect seams consistently, but with so many overlapping seams things tend to get a unorganized for time to time, and thats why I always keep a file in close distance.
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