Jewelry Making Copper Sheet Alternative
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- Опубликовано: 3 сен 2018
- Jewelry Making Copper Sheet Alternative
I like to use what's around to make stuff.
Most people have access to these spare pieces of copper tubing, or if not, the hardware store has them in different lengths. Use a tubing cutter to trim them to the length you want, anneal, and flatten in minutes.
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Awesome tip, man! Thank you all the way from Australia!
You are welcome.
Love this! No more paying the shipping costs for the sheet - thank you! And who doesn't love hammering anyway!
Everyone loves hammering, but M.C. REALLY loves "Hammering".....
Being a "Hammer", so do I!
Marilyn & David Hammer , when your a hammer, EVERYTHING looks like a nail.
Doug Napier 🤣
So obvious! And still genious! Thank you very much! ...Why didn't I think of that?!!!
Awesome thank you so much !
You are welcome.
Excellent!
Thank you.
Thank you gets expensive !
Thanks man! I've been doing this but haven't been annealing. I think I'll just toss the pipe in the woodstove for a bit!
No need to heat, copper is soft anyway.
Can you do this with nickel or brass tubes as well? What gauge? Love your little tips.
Brass, yes. Nickel..... never tried, so I am not sure.
This is a great tip. I'm currently searching for information on the best grade of copper for engraved name tags and am trying to find a correlation between Chinese grades and American grades. My source in China has the grades listed as T2, T3, and T4. Does anyone know how this equates to American grades?
Sorry, no idea.
I like the plate that you hammer on. It is attached to the table with screws or at least that’s what it looks like. Can you tell me if that’s anything special or just a steel plate? Do you know its thickness?
it is called a GRS® BenchMate Mounting Adapter, they cost about $33 and many bench fixtures can mount to them.
would this be considered "dead soft" ? How malleable is it? It seemed fairly stiff.
abstractsbybrian it is very malleable after annealing it.
Can I ask why you leave it to cool by itself after annealing? Would it not be safer (and quicker!) to quench it in a bowl of cold water?
Thanks for the question. I have a steel block, out of the way that I sometimes set hot things on to cool, so safety is not really an issue. Silver transfers heat quickly, and you would be surprised how fast a steel block will cool silver down. As for quicker, I sometimes need to get out of that mindset of "faster-quicker" is always better. Sure I could quench it, pickle it, neutralize it, dry it, and get back to work, but at times I just like to take a little time and enjoy the process.
@@DougNapierJewelryMonk thank you! I thought there might have been some kind of quirk I'd been missing out on! 😂
I'd be careful with "they're just laying around construction sites"...
Ok, let me rephrase that......
I usually find small leftover scraps around MY plumbing projects. 2-3 inch pieces work perfect!