Thanks for all your videos! Just found your channel this weekend and am binge watching them all! I made some larger lentil beads and found paste solder much easier by syringing a thin line around the inside edge of one half and placing the other on top. Not only is it easier to place the solder evenly around the bead, but it helps keep the two halve together since it's paste. It doesn't take much at all and I didn't have much clean up to do afterwards. The whole process was much easier than I thought it would be. I was really happy with how they turned out.