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Hammers for Coppersmithing

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How to Clean Tin Linings of Copper Pots

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Tools of the Trade Tin Snips to Use

8:12

How to Make a Pattern for Straight Sided Vessels

8:25

How to use Rosin Flux

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How to Measure any Base

If you want to cut a circle for the bottom of any cup, pan, mug, pot, or other body, whether it's a cylinder or a cone (inverted either way) there's some standard math for cutting a blank square and cutting out a circle that can be burred to fit as a crimp seam for the body's base. Hope this is helpful!
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8:30

How to Solder on Art to Copper

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If you have German silver, bronze or brass plate or even tin you want to solder onto copper (or even copper art itself you want to put on copper), this is a method that works great. The trick is to have the pieces pre-formed pretty well to the body beforehand so it lays snug as much as possible. To sign up for an in-person workshop in Wisconsin (spaces are limited!): house-copper-cookware.mysho...

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Hammers for Coppersmithing

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If you're looking to build your coppersmith shop (or tinsmith shop), there are a handful of hammers always in use and rotation for me (and Bob the master smith, too!). Hope this is helpful if you're wondering what to have around for your projects! Below are links to hammers I use (I am NOT paid / affiliated with any, it's just what I've accumulated over time!). Rubber hammer: www.zoro.com/kraft...

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How to Clean Tin Linings of Copper Pots

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Several folks have asked about caring for tin linings at home - what's the best way to take care of them going forward once they have been re-lined or are new. This video is nothing monumental or special, but it's a visual tutorial of care that I always say is the best for your linings. Hope it helps! To sign up for an in-person workshop in Wisconsin (spaces are limited!): house-copper-cookware...

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Tools of the Trade Tin Snips to Use

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Just something short and hopefully helpful for those who want to know what tools to have to get started at the bare minimum - what you would want to have in your tin or copper shop. All these snips work for standard 26gauge and up to 20oz copper sheet. You can find them all at most big box hardware stores, like Home Depot. Straight snips: www.homedepot.com/p/Crescent-Wiss-10-in-Straight-Cut-Dro...

How to Make a Pattern for Straight Sided Vessels

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How to Make a Pattern for Straight Sided Vessels

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There is indeed general, basic math (geometry) for making straight-sided cups, mugs, pots, and other vessels. Assuming you use a crimp seam along the side (ideally, as it's the stronger seam and will allow for future retinning if you're using copper) this is the go-to math for creating a straight-sided vessel, with an allowance for a side crimp seam, a 1/8" wired top lip, and a classic crimp-se...

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How to use Rosin Flux

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Thought we'd go a little old fashioned this time; using pine tree rosin as flux - it is a powder, but works just like chemical fluxes. Clean-up is the only annoying part as the residue doesn't come off without denatured alcohol. This is the original 1700s and 1800s flux, though I do use a modern soldering iron. Solder #460 from Johnson Manufacturing: www.johnsonmfg.com/temp/NOLEAD.HTM#silver Ro...

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How to Hand Stamp Copper Sheet

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Just a little tutorial on hand-stamping copper sheet. This is stamping thicker copper, so a bit more force is needed for the whole image to show up. Use way less force for the standard 26gauge / 12oz copper sheet you can buy at like Menards. To sign up for an in-person workshop in Wisconsin (spaces are limited!): house-copper-cookware.myshopify.com/collections/coppersmithing-workshop-series Fin...

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How to Create a Single Bead

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Sometimes creating a bead is necessary for strengthening long sides of sheet metal, or it's just for decoration (but it will still likely strengthen the metal!), and it can be done using a beading machine, a turning stake, or a swedge if you have one of those oldies. In this video, I'm putting in a single bead (vs ogee, double, triple, etc) in a play-by-play how-to. Hope it's informative! To si...

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How to do Lap Seam Corners

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I've done a few 'how to make corner' videos, but this one is truly the very tight details of a tab / lap seam corners on a square or rectangle shape. This is probably one of the easier corners to do, and you mostly need a hand brake to do it after it's cut. It's much stronger than a butt seam corner, and there's not a way to do a crimp seam - so short of the folding technique I did in another v...

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How to Clean Copper with Ketchup

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Just a fun little reminder that things in your kitchen can clean copper if it's not too tarnished, lacquered/blackened, or super old - if it is, it needs more chemical or mechanical processes. Enjoy! To sign up for an in-person workshop in Wisconsin (spaces are limited!): house-copper-cookware.myshopify.com/collections/coppersmithing-workshop-series Find me on Facebook: housecopper...

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Tin vs Silver Linings

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This is like tin vs stainless steel - the ongoing debate about what works for copper cookware linings. From an average, single-person business (with not a ton of money to...you know, build a whole separate forge!) here's what silver linings look like. Can't wait to hear what other opinions and thoughts are! In the end, there is no 'right' or 'wrong' linings - it's all just preference and afford...

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How to Attach a Copper Handle

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I've had people ask about how I attach handles - here's the "how it's done". I use 4 rivets (two on top, two on bottom) using tinner's rivets. After riveting you always want to tin the interior of the rivets to seal them / make the body waterproof. :) Hope this is helpful! Copper sheet: www.menards.com/main/building-materials/roofing/roof-flashing/10-copper-roll-valley/939-10-20/p-1444424178364...

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Wiring an Edge Using Another Wire

Переглядів 3,9 тис.11 місяців тому

OK, so let's say you have a bar folder, or you want to really move metal over for prepping for a wire after using a turning machine...or, like me, you don't like your turning machine very much...(mine is for small wires and not always very nice on the finish). This is a way to get your lip turned over in order to get an edge prepped for a wire, so the material is moved over enough for wiring. I...

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How to Solder a Seam on Tin Plate

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Hey hey! Happy end of 2023! Here's a quick video on soldering tinplate using an electric soldering iron, liquid (diluted) flux (I use 2:1 - 2 parts water, 1 part concentrated flux for this) and silver-based food-grade tin solder. It is less intense than soldering copper sheet, as you only need an iron, but you need to go slow to get a really smooth finish. That's the big trick! Info on where to...