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How do you anneal copper?

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Its done with a fame or torch, you heat the copper to a almost cherry red glow, (caution, you don't want it red, if it just starts to glow, "stop" that where you just annealed copper.
but the more you shape it after your annealing process it will harden up again, not due to cooling but due to your shaping it

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