The stainless is extremely hard -- is there a way to anneal the stainless to soften it up? I have a ceramic kiln I can heat it in if this is possible? Can anyone help? Thanks,John Sissonssilversmithing - Tacoma, Washington2002
Firstly, you need to heat up your fluxed scrap silver until it melts into a sphere - you'll see that Cyrilyn has used two torches to make this process quicker. Then place your sphere between 2 steel blocks and use a hammer to hit and flatten the silver. Now you need to ...
Anneal after every second round (both sides of the billet). 2.4 Begin Shaping the Billet Once the billet is reduced to the desired width, it’s time to give it some shape. 2.5 The Shaping Process When the billet is “rounded” using a hammer, file off the soldering that was added befo...