[Jewelry making - Article 00005] - Re: [Orchid] To quench or not to quench, that is the question

[leonid Surpin]

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>     _How do you stress the metal equally before annealing? And/or how
>     do you determine the metal has been stressed equally before
>     annealing? 

    In repousse by the sound the piece makes. In jewellery by the amount
    of deformation piece undergoes. Each metal has different modulus (
    how much work it can take ) and jeweller has to keep track of it. The
    example of what not to do is take ring shank, hammer to death a half
    of it, do not touch the other half and anneal it. That would be
    unequal stressing of metal. 

leonid surpin
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