How to Do a Lap Seam
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2022
- Doing another 'back to basics' here for a couple of videos on the step by step "how to" for coppersmithing / tinsmithing / sheet metal seams. This video covers the lap seam - a very traditional seam with a lot of uses. :) Next up will be the crimp seam.
As a reminder, there are four seams: butt, lap, crimp and cramp (often called 'dovetail' vs the metalsmithing term)
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Love your videos. They're concise and easy to understand. Thanks for making them.
Thank you for the kind words - so happy you love the videos and they are helpful!!
Loving my professional vintage copper cookware… I enjoy caring for it after every use finding it most pleasurable …
I’m hooked on quality…weight
Good things to be hooked on!!
Unrelated, but can I request a video about flattening the base on warped copper cookware? I'm curious about your approach especially when the copper is stretched and you need to basically choose between some cupping and crowning.
lol, absolutely you can do a request anywhere! I just filmed this video for ya, and will post it sooner than later once I get it uploaded, edited, and uploaded here. So much depends on the piece itself. There have been times I have gotten it totally true/flat, but usually that's with older pieces that can spread out the crystal structure of the copper better than whole/pressed pieces like the one I will show in the video. Heat, hammer, and hope...that's about it. ha!
@@housecopper awesome, thanks so much Sara! Looking forward to seeing it :)
What is the reason for using a torch instead of a iron also do you buff out the copper to remove the distortion from the torch. Thanks for the video
Copper pulls the heat SO fast you must use a torch to keep it hot enough to get the solder to run, even if you are also using a soldering iron. Yes, you buff/clean the copper after you're done with the heating process.
Been watching your videos the past few hours, and I was wondering if you could answer a question please. I bought a copper boiler for canning today and when I got it home i found a 1/16-1/8 hole in the bottom. I saw a video where you soldered a copper patch on a few pieces and I was wondering if I did that and then tinned the inside again would that make it safe to can with.
Thanks for watching! Hope some of it helps! And yes, you could patch the copper pot with a copper patch. It's totally work a shot to make the boiler usable - better than not trying at all.
This is for cookware? Doesn't the solder melt when you cook with it?
Lap seams have been used for cookware for several centuries. It holds up. :) And since you should never heat a tin-lined copper pot / copper pot with tin in it empty, the food or liquid absorbs access heat, so there's no melting solder. Unless you cook in a skillet with an inappropriate amount of heat and not enough food/water in the pan. Then, yeah, you'd melt your tin lining. But that's a user error, not a fault of the tin's. :)