Now I had all my pieces! Time for the final step… soldering!!! A soldering iron is a very hot tool used to bing things together with a metal called solder. When the hot iron touches solder it instantly melts. I was soldering all my pieces to create a pendant for my choker. First I touched the iron and solder to the part of the circle I wanted to close. I held it there for like two or three seconds. Now all I had to do was this process to all the parts I wanted to bind together.

Solder doesn’t come out very smooth, so after a few minutes of it drying I had to file the bumps down in order to have a flat pendant. The tool I used to do this was sand paper. I took the sand paper and rubbed hard on the intended areas. Now that it was nice and smooth there was still solder on the internal part of the pendant. To do this I used a metal file, kind of like a nail file for metal. The metal file is long, skinny, and rough, so I used it to get the solder out of the middle.

Finally my pendant was finished, so I got a piece of black string and threaded it through. Now I had a stylish choker.