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Career Details :: Silversmiths
Description
Anneal, solder, hammer, shape, and glue silver articles.
Experience
Previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is required for these occupations. For example, an electrician must have completed three or four years of apprenticeship or several years of vocational training, and often must have passed a licensing exam, in order to perform the job.
Education
Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree. Some may require a bachelor's degree.
Training
Employees in these occupations usually need one or two years of training involving both on-the-job experience and informal training with experienced workers.
Tasks
- Pierces and cuts open design in ornamentation, using hand drill and scroll saw.
- Shapes and straightens damaged or twisted articles by hand, or using pliers.
- Forms concavity in bottom of article to improve stability, using tracing punches and hammer.
- Outlines design from photographs or drawings onto surface of article, using hand tools.
- Solders parts together and fills holes and cracks with silver solder, using gas torch.
- Anneals silverware, such as coffeepots, tea sets, and trays, in gas oven for prescribed time to soften metal for reworking.
- Verifies levelness of bottom edges of article, using straightedge, or by rocking back and forth on flat surface.
- Strikes article with small tools, or punches with hammer, to indent or restore embossing.
- Positions article over snarling tool and raises design area, using foot-powered hammer.
- Glues plastic separators to handles of coffee and teapots.
- Peens edges of scratches or holes to repair defect, using peening hammer.
- Wires parts, such as legs, spouts, and handles, to body to prepare article for soldering.
- Examines article to determine nature of defects, such as dents, uneven bottom, scratches, or holes, to repair.
- Hammers out deformations, selecting and using hammer and dollies with head corresponding in curvature with surface of article.
Related Careers
- Hand and Portable Power Tool Repairers
- Mold Makers, Hand
- Precision Mold and Pattern Casters, except Nonferrous Metals
- Solderers
- Tool and Die Makers
Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Controlling Machines and Processes
- Implementing Ideas, Programs, etc.
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, Material
- Performing General Physical Activities
Important Skills
- Product Inspection
- Equipment Selection
- Equipment Maintenance
- Problem Identification
- Judgment and Decision Making
Frequent Work Context
- Indoors
- Using Hands on Objects, Tools, Controls
- Frustrating Circumstances
- Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
- Degree of Automation
Related Majors
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