bitsandspurs

here is an oval pend. needing a few more scratches before being finished.

Looks really good to me!

One thing that helps when soldering something round on something flat is:

Once you get your shape, take and use an ultra fine file or a piece of emery paper and make a flat "bottom" to it.
Then place it on the paper/file and make a flat bottom to it where the solder will flow, this will leave less "edge" to the solder.

Or, if you are using something that you can get in half round, use it to start with.

One thing that it really does is that is requires way less solder.

Later...

JBM

Shawn,
Nice job, looks good.
Ed

thanks for your comments.
working on a couple other items now, hope they turn out nice.
shawn

Looks good, Shawn.

THANKS MR. ESP