r/Copper

I was browsing Facebook Marketplace and stumbled across this piece of art. I'm always a sucker for copper, so I made them an offer and headed out to pick it up. It wasn't until I got it home and looked into it that I found out it was from the 1930s! The tarnish is pretty rough, so I picked up some Wright's Copper Cream and am planning to clean it up tomorrow so it can develop a more even patina on its own. I'm hoping to end up with something like the patina on my cocktail shaker in the third picture, but I'm not sure how realistic that is.

Got this beauty from a yard sale today! Total score!

Here is a copper lamp with a mica shade I've made in the simplicity of the Arts and Crafts aesthetic, using only the coppersmithing tools and techniques of the early 1900s, completely handmade.

This will be a 4-5 bar set my shop makes, very excited

While I was studying at the Dirk Van Erp Museum in Alameda, California, I created this lamp in the style of Dirk Van Erp's Arts and Crafts Movement aesthetic. I also had the rare opportunity to build this lamp using tools from the original Van Erp Workshop, bringing a piece of Van Erp history directly into the work. hesselstudios.com

I made myself a unique piece to match my favorite TV series.

It is tampon etched and patinated with liver of sulphur. Finally, briefly polished with superfine steel wool. Now it is allowed to continue to age while it accompanies me.

Trying to get a close to as real copper patina look: you can see the progress.
I’m using modern masters
Copper paint with real copper , red alcohol dye and spray blue patina to get a heated copper look that will be sealed matte on my bike. How do you think this looks? The lower half has more of the red paring that’s sprayed. Do I need green too?

I’ve been having quite a bit of fun with this thing

Has anyone in the group played with or experimented with electroplating biological matter in copper? I've been electroplating roses in copper but I'm still not able to achieve the finish I'm looking for and I would love to compare notes with others who do the same.

Thrifted this cup and tried to clean with salt and vinegar. This is the after, it had green oxidation on the bottom before and a darker inner lining. I will try lemon and salt along with ketchup tomorrow but I was more curious about te lighter pink spotting her the top of the rim that appeared after the salt+vinegar.

Also looked up copper 405 and it came up as an alloy rather than just copper. Is that ok?

Joke post, didn't seem against rules but remove if inappropriate

Also loved this book from childhood.