Hello! Yes, you're right, this is no solder. Just fused. I requires practice. I means you need to heat the piece, from below, until both pieces start to get molten at the same time. The "liquid" silver then fuses the pieces together. Don't apply the flame from the top because the "frame" of fine silver will be much much thinner than the base. So you need the base to heat up first

@@GeraldineMurphyEnamel Thank you! I will practice that.

No - enamel won't fuse with solder. Fuse the two fine silver pieces together then use solder to apply the ring on the back of the piece if you are making a pendant. The ring should be sterling silver unless its s very thick. Then just file additional solder away and enamel the back of the piece to balance out the enamel that will be on the front

Hi Lena, thanks for contacting me. The gold is put on with gold size (vegan), after all the firing is done. This is gold leaf - as opposed to gold foil. Foil will survive in a kiln no problem but gold leaf won't - it is too thin and would burn off.

I had the same on my first piece, the guys in the club told me that sometimes colors burn. I guess it's because I wasn't paying much attention to the process so it may have stayed longer in the oven than needed. Also in the club I went they adjust the oven to 850°C. I made a flower of different color in each petal, the ones that went good were colors that I didn't combine, red, yellow, green, blue. But I tried making sub colours from primary colours 😂 and those ones look dark 😂 a red petal went good but another not so that's why I assume I also let it too long in the oven. And always put an enamel layer on the back for 1mm thick piece, that all I learnt after 😂. They told me that if you don't put that enamel layer on the back the colors in the front can crack, and indeed I also had a blue petal cracked on the front 😂😂

Hi Janet, you can use any kind of epoxy glue really - anything that won't get brittle over time.

Hi Ken, I only use Klyrfire for 3D pieces or things like bowls where otherwise the enamel would slide down with gravity. The other occasion where I use Klyrfire is if I am trying to fire the front and back of the piece at the same time: I use the very same enamel, sand the back, paint or preferably spray on the Klyrfire, sift on my enamel, wait until it is dry-ish, then turn it over and don't bother with Klyrfire, sift on your enamel to the front. Then you transfer your piece to your trivet and fire (when the Klyrfire is dry on the back). When you do this, 1. don't put on too much KFire because it will drip off along with the enamel and 2. don't put heaps of enamel on to the back because again, with gravity it will drop or drip off in the kiln and get all over the floor of the kiln.