Original pinning

 Began to work on my next jewelry piece again. I want it to be a kinetic piece that would be a ferris wheel that would actually rotate. The problem that I ran into last semester and for the first trial today was that the steel pins would become soldered or attached to the brass rod of the rail and the brass would not be soldered to the piece of copper tubing.

Soldered pins to brass piece

 However, I realized that I had been pinning the brass pieces wrong. I had pinned them at the bottom, and learned that if I pinned them at the top, I wouldn't have the trouble with the pins being soldered to the brass, and the solder itself would be easier to maneuver, and the torches flame would be easier to reach the joint.

Second pinning

Piece with newly soldered brass rods

As can be seen, the brass piece soldered so much easier to the copper tubing.