50 metres of wire and 5 days later. And this isn’t all of them!

Hi everyone, hoping I can get some answers here. I've just started experimenting with copper and would love to make some gemstone copper rings. I'm really struggling with making the bezels, in a few ways.

1. I don't know if my bezel wire is too wide. When I hammer it down it either breaks or doesn't lay flush with the stone

2. Soldering. I used a hard solder for the bezel and a softer one for the bezel back but as soon as I try and fit the stone it breaks off.

Very frustrating!

Also can anyone recommend a supplier for copper sheets, wire, solder etc. I'm UK based.

Thanks in advance 🙂

Hello everybody!

I made a small metal works business called Eldershine. I hand forge copper cuffs and pendants. I officially released my first 4 cuffs. Pendants are in the works. I’ve got a very small following but I look forward to growing this project of mine. I made an Instagram and an Etsy page and have made 6 sales so far. Woooh! I just wanted to share with you all. Enjoy!

Copper Pencil Cup from 2” pipe

Melvin was a good backdrop.

Stackin 10 lb ingots!!!

Not sure if I'm going to clean these up or just keep going. Might remelt later and do a nicer job. Got so much to go through still.

I love copper

I want to be copper

I want copper hands and copper arms and copper teeth and copper eyes

I love copper

I want copper hair and copper skin and copper nails

Give me the choice between $5000 and copper I'd choose copper. I love copper so much,I want to eat copper and breathe copper. I wish I could eat copper ore and melt it in my stomach and spit it out refined.

I love copper

Learning to cast cupper ingots

Tips:

- Let the mixture stop bubling before pooring it. -> The finish will be smooth without bubbles on the top.

- Preheat the mold until red. -> it will be more uniform on the bottom and side.

Do you have other tips? Thank you!

I picked this up from an estate sale. Could this be native copper?

They are about 1.1lbs to 1.3 each

I used 1tbsp of Pitambari powder with a few drops of lukewarm water. I then directly applied the mixture on my heatsink pipes and rubbed it with an old toothbrush. And you will see the pipes changing it's colour from dull copper to shining copper. Then rinse it with some water, and make sure you don't leave any water droplets behind before putting it back on your PC.

❗THIS DOES NOT MAKE YOUR HEAT TRANSFER EFFICIENT. IT IS ONLY TO BEAUTIFY THE LOOKS. ❗

On top of that, you could use this powder on all your copper items to get that original shine back.

Took me off a bunch of iterations to finally figure out some looks that I like

The shiniest one is just a clean well-balanced accurately calculated current density bright copper

The dollar finish is actually copper deposits with intentionally extremely low amperage until it builds up a really thick layer and then I toss it into a tumbler with a bunch of Steel burnishing mixed media

The last one is bright copper dipped into liver of sulfur and then put into course polish

Are there any other good copper finishes to look into? I am preparing for a craft sale.

50 bars poured today, suns shining. ☀️