[Jewelry making - Article 00106] - Re: [Orchid] Overheating Yellow Gold

[James Binnion]

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    After all that I forgot to answer the basic question :-(  Typically
    if you have over annealed the metal it is very difficult to save it.
    The only way to fix it is to get  a significant amount of cold work
    into it to break down the large crystals. Unfortunately this will
    often result in the metal being too thin or it may crack at the
    grain boundaries while working it. 

Jim Binnion

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