[Jewelry making - Article 00428] - Re: [Orchid] My apprenticeship...

[John Donivan]

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>     So, how does hitting silver with a nylon mallet compare to
>     striking/reducing/raising with a metal hammer, when it comes the
>     need to anneal? Thanks! 

    Jim Binnion is Mr. Science - I mean that sincerely, and he can answer
    in his inimitable way. On a practical level, you are dealing with the
    deformation of metal. More deformation=more hardness. It doesn't
    matter, really, whether it's bending, twisting, or smashing. An
    exaggeration: if you sit there and pound on a piece of silver with
    your finger nails all day long, it will not harden, because you're
    not deforming the metal, even though you are pounding on it. A nylon
    mallet will harden some - depending how hard you hit with it - it's
    not the hammer so much as the bending of your bracelets that's doing
    it, though. 

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