Manufacturing.

Turning a ceiling plate	Preparing the coating on brass candle rings	Bending the brass crown with a hand tool
Right materials The dominant material in the frame is brass. Brass is a great material that goes well with crystal. It is also relatively soft which makes it ideal to form arcs and curves. Suspension chains, however, should be made of iron for safety reasons.	Soldering The soldering process reveals much about the quality of the workmanship.  Perfect soldering is soldering that is invisible.  It can only be achieved by cleaning and polishing the intricate soldered surfaces by hand to completely eliminate excess solder and any discoloration from the heat generated by the soldering process. A high quality chandelier should have all soldered surfaces cleaned and polished, even those in less visible spots, like in the plume crowns or difficult to see seams.  Soldering is done with silver.	Creating the shape When brass is sculpted by hand you can feel the material’s resistance which differs between various sections of the brass.  This hand shaping creates a unique, live, organic form which varies from one chandelier to the next and cannot be replicated by a machine. Sharp edges, perfect curves and perfectly straight sections reveal a machine-made product.