Dave (my husband) is awesome. I know I’ve said this before, but it must be repeated.
He’s the one who bought me my first pasta machine for polymer clay, when I still thought I didn’t really need it. (How wrong I was)
He brings home cool tools and wire and interesting metal bits if he thinks I could use them. He’s even created tools for me – like a specially modified caulking gun which allows me to use the metal clay gun without breaking my hands.
And in September, (just before NaNoWriMo so I didn’t gotten much of a chance to play with it before hand) he got me a Smith Little Torch. It may be mini, but it’s powerful. Speaking from experience, you can melt things quite well if you try. Fortunately, I was actually trying that time… 
I’ve got it set up with the small disposable bottles of mapp gas and oxygen.
Mostly I’ve been playing around and practicing. Getting something soldered isn’t too hard. Getting the stupid little chips of solder to sit where you put them and flow into the seam where you want them instead of all over the outside of your piece– Well, that’s a little harder.
But that’s what they make files and sandpaper for, right? And I think I’m slowly getting better.
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Nice- your husband IS awesome! I look forward to seeing photos of some of the projects you’ve used that torch on. What have you been doing so far with it? Do you have any “big ideas” coming up for it?
Nothing too complex – mainly just practice pieces and a few bezels. I’m finding it difficult to get into a “metal” frame of mind. For so long, I’ve tried to come up with alternatives that it’s hard to remember I can combine materials (without some sort of cold connection). But its interesting and I came up with a couple things I like. I just have to decide on what I want to sculpt to fill in the bezels.
Can this little beauty be used for enamelling?