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I fell in love with a hammered copper sign that I saw in an old SignCraft magazine. I told a customer about wanting to do one for their subdivision but have never done one. I'd like to show the pic to the customer but can't rmemeber what issue. Anyone remember?
-------------------- Laura Butler Vision Graphics & Sign 4479 Welch Rd Attica, Mi 48412 Posts: 2855 | From: Attica, Mi, USA | Registered: Nov 2000
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Laura, there's a show on one of the educational channels called Modern Masters. I watched a fellow start with a flat sheet and wind up with a beautiful lamp shade. That is quite a skill.
You might check SignCraft's website. They have a list of past feature articles there. Vic G
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One day while I was messing around, I discovered that if you hammer HDU with a ball pean hammer, you get an effect very similar to hammered copper. So I tried it on a painted sign, but it did not show up very well. So I'm sure you would need to leaf it to get the full effect. Your post here reminded me of it. Sorry to stray a bit.
-------------------- Jeff Ogden 8727 NE 68 Terr. Gainesville FL, 32609 Posts: 2138 | From: 8827 NE 68 Terr Gainesville Fl 32609 | Registered: Aug 2002
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One of my workers found the issue right away. Aren't those signs cool! And probably very cheap to make. Now I have to find a supplier for copper by the roll.
-------------------- Laura Butler Vision Graphics & Sign 4479 Welch Rd Attica, Mi 48412 Posts: 2855 | From: Attica, Mi, USA | Registered: Nov 2000
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I've heard talk of people buying copper sheet from a supplier at anvilfire.com (don't know how to do the link thing).
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the CAMERON-ASHLEY aluminum place carries 4' x 10' sheets of it!!!!!!!!! only bout $150.
-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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I was talking with a fella a couple of years ago that made hammered copper pieces for his signs. What he did was carve his shape out of MDF and then lay the copper over top and pound it to the shape with a ball-pien hammer. I believe that he used oversized copper sheets and then cut then to shape after the dimension was pounded.
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i love any copper work....its such a maluble metal. in grade school we did thse little 4x6 wall hangings of different things, indian, horse, buffalo, etc. they were a plastic relief, of the object, and it had this sheet of thin copper you secured at one end, a wooden stick with a not real sharp point. you put the copper over the relief, and with the wood stick you reproduced that shape in the sheet of copper. then when you where done the teacher mixed up some chemicals, and we brushed it on the copper....and all the real low spots turned almost black, then some green and after it sat 10-15 minutes we wiped it all off with paper towels....and these thing were beautiful....looked like they were 100 years old!!!
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