[Jewelry making - Article 00283] - Re: [Orchid] A different Argentium problem

[Cynthia Eid]

========[ Invite a Friend - http://www.ganoksin.com/invite.htm  ]========

    Argentium Sterling Silver - Zen Sojourner's confusion about hardness,
    and more 

Hi Zen Soujourner,

    When I read your posts about trying to understand relative
    hardnesses, I got so overwhelmed with the description of the
    confusion, I could not even organize my thoughts to compose a
    response! I can't stop feeling and thinking about your angst though,
    so I decided I needed to try to help, somehow. 

    My solution to this confusion is to suggest simplifying by focusing
    on the essentials. 

    The important thing to know is that the Argentium Sterling Silver
    can get very hard, and that it is very easy to do, does not require
    expensive, high-tech equipment, and that fire-scale is not created by
    the process of hardening. 

    I offered a lot of explanatory information in my article because
    there are many people who really want to know that sort of thing.
    Personally, I did not really cared too much about a lot of it, until
    I was asked to write the article. Having agreed to do the job, it
    was important to me to do the job well. I tried to write it so that
    people who are not interested in the whys and wherefores can simply
    skip over that stuff and read the parts about how to actually work
    with the material. I also attempted to write it using simple
    language so that those of us who are sort of science-phobic would
    have a chance of understanding. Since I was aiming at both the
    experienced professional and the avid newbie, there is bound to be a
    sentence or two that needs to be read more than one time, before
    being really understood. It took me many hours to find some of those
    facts, and then study them, and ask questions and write, re-write,
    and re-write several more times, so that I could write as simply as
    possible. So, "cut yourself some slack" -- our brains may be sponges,
    but even a sponge has its limits of how much it can absorb at a time.

I hope this helps!
Cindy
www.cynthiaeid.com

____________________________________________________________________
T h e   O r c h i d   L i s t
Open Electronic Forum for Jewelry Manufacturing Methods and Procedures
____________________________________________________________________
Orchid FAQ:
~ http://www.ganoksin.com/orchid/faq.htm
Orchid Archives:
~ http://www.ganoksin.com/orchid/archive
Orchid Galleries:
~ http://www.ganoksin.com/orchid/gallery.htm
Invite a Friend:
~ http://www.ganoksin.com/invite.htm
____________________________________________________________________
Tips From The Jeweler's Bench - Article Archive
~ http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/tip_sear.htm
The Jeweler's Selected Bibliography List
~ http://www.ganoksin.com/jewelry-books
Buy Orchid Jewelry:
~ http://www.ganoksin.com/shop
____________________________________________________________________
-Unsubscribe:
-Email: orchid-request AT ganoksin.com Body=unsubscribe subject=blank
____________________________________________________________________