Thursday, March 11, 2010

Foiling and Leading

This is where it starts to come together and also the place where sloppiness and slapdash shows up the worst. Doing foiling and leading the right way can make all the difference.

The width of your solder lines can help create a clean appearance. However, varying line widths can be appealing in some organic designs, an example of this would be some of the work coming out of the Tiffany studios. If you look closely at the Tiffany solder work, you will notice that it is hardly ever uniform, this adds to the organic feel of the pieces.

A clean consistent soldering width looks good in most geometric designs where the patterns are often symmetrical and would look "off" with varying line widths.

When foiling your pieces, make sure to use the same width of foil throughout the piece. If you run out of a certain width, get more of the same, don't try and substitute another width, it could be very obvious.

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