Kara Santamaria
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah, that's interesting.
Sandblasting.
It's so interesting.
Silver is like, I mean, I guess it's not different.
It's all the same principles, but like we anneal silver to make it more, I guess, ductile, more workable, but it's way softer.
Yeah, exactly.
And then when you hammer it, when you work with it, it becomes work-hardened and needs to be softened again.
Well, yes.
Yeah, yeah.
Bronze, silver, any jewelry metal is like that.
That's right.
Yeah, otherwise you just have to like rub something against the surface back and forth a lot, and that can strengthen it as well.
But you have to do that with jewelry.
Same with fine silver.
999 silver is way too soft.
Like you can't get it hard enough.
So only the bands, those little bezels around stones are made of fine silver because they're soft enough to like push to the stone.
But you'd never want the shank of your ring to be fine silver.
It would deform.
Good one, man.