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Brittneybeab
Mar 1, 2015, 05:23 PM
True or False?
The only way an artist can work with metal is to heat it to a liquid state?

teacherjenn4
Mar 1, 2015, 05:36 PM
Is this homework?

ma0641
Mar 1, 2015, 06:18 PM
Ever watch a blacksmith? Now go do your homework!

Fr_Chuck
Mar 1, 2015, 10:36 PM
How are rings made? How are horseshoes made?

What about a braclet.

Rebecca Greer
Mar 22, 2015, 07:43 AM
Was this for a test? Probably too late then, but I was a metalsmithing minor in college. So... false. You only heat to liquid, if you are casting something. Most everything else is fabricated/built up. Soldered. Pounded into shape. You heat it frequently to anneal it, and keep it flexible while shaping, but never hot enough to become liquid... because it will eff your work (make it brittle).