Now, we have finished BOTH the jewelry piece and the 3 switches. If I am going to be honest with you, I am so happy about how my necklace and switches turned out, and my family liking them. Especially my sister with her necklace.
I was also pretty scared at the time when it was my turn to sauder. Mr Calvert said it was 842°F! Also how you use them is you put flux (white goo stuff that helps the wires stick (I never heard of flux before.)) on the parts that need to be saudered. And here is the crazy thing. When you Sadler, you basically melt metal wire, and so that it turns to goopy, liquid metal. So then you put the liquid metal on the parts that need to be sauldered and the liquid metal then works like metal glue. How crazy is that! Just thinking of that amazes me.
For my switches, they turned out really well. Honestly, I had my highs and I have my lows. My original 3 designs were to make one look so that you’re charging an iPhone, one where it works like a stick shift and one where it looked like you give a dog a treat. The stick shift failed and I didn’t even bother trying to make out of cutting cardboard. And you don’t cut them with scissors, you cut them with things called scroll saws! Anyways, I made 2 other last minute designs and one was incredibly ingenious, and one was alright.