The tools needed for this job are a hammer, a flat-headed punch or a hammer hand piece for your flex-shaft, a small round burr, and some platinum wire: You will also need either; dog-leg style burnisher or a tungsten burnisher made from a burr, as well as a wire curter and a pair of needle-nose…

Editor’s Note: Working with platinum is unlike working with any other metal: It polishes differently, requires greater heat to work with, and is easily contaminated.

It would seem a simple matter to join metal to metal. However success in gold soldering involves more than meets the eye. When doing short runs, you must follow a few fundamental procedures to ensure a neat, strong, and uniform joint.