[Jewelry making - Article 00273] - Re: [Orchid] My apprenticeship...

[John Donivan]

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>     She didn't say anything, but I got the impression I bruised her
>     ego, so I just let it drop completely. 

    Ah, the blind leading the blind..... As far as the annealing part,
    I've been a jeweler for almost 35 years. I couldn't tell you what
    books say, but I have annealed just as you say - dull red, quench
    when the redness is gone, TENS of thousands of times. Soldering, too.
    It works just fine. What you have there is your basic pressure
    cooker, and I hope you can make it through. You seem (I haven't read
    this entire thread) to have an owner who's marginally skilled, a
    "Master" jeweler with three WHOLE years experience, and none of them
    can just say, "let's get the job done, ok?" If you are in a shop, or
    this whole Orchid forum is a great example, you will rarely find egos
    like that. Why? Because things are basically facts - precisely how
    something is annealed means nothing, what matters is, is it soft?
    Yes? then it's done. By your description, though, it sounds like you
    either waited too long to anneal, or overheated it, or both, with the
    broken silver piece. I wrote in another thread today about how a shop
    is a team, working together - it has to be. You don't have a team, 
you
    have a group of prima donnas. There's not much you can do about that
    except endure it. I would wonder why the owner tells you one thing,
    and the counselor another, though. Maybe you should just ask him what
    him vision of the future is, exactly, and what your part in that is.. 


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