Charles B. cracking gold help!

Dear Charles… Great on cracking gold for
everyone.and ME… I had cracking also until I started filing my
edges and also hammering down my metal after annealing and
before rolling down.This was from John Cogswell… . Did the
trick… Also I learned not to get so much heat to the metal red
red red .all the time when annealing… thanks again…calgang I
love my new hinge book… What a lot of hinges and etc…Had the
exact one I needed… now to find time to make it… Ha!.