I have started copper tooling after watching your video, and I just wanted to thank you for the clear instruction and steps. I still haven’t gotten around to figuring out the filling in or patina, but I have really enjoyed this new hobby. Thank you!
Excellent video! You did a great job of explaining how to do it plus gave different options for coloring and mounting. You are inspiring me to create something fun! Thank you 🙏
You are an amazing teacher. Such calm energy and all is explained so well. You are a true inspiration and a fine artist. Thank you for sharing your gift.
I had one of these made for my now husband. I always wondered how it was done. This is awesome. I'm kinda artsy fartsy so I might take it up. You do wonderful work. Thank you so much for teaching those of us who would like to learn this!
Absolutely stunning work and one of the very best demonstrations I’ve seen on RU-vid so far! Thank you for this very informative instructions and beautiful art work. I rate this 100%+ love it ❤️
Thank you for all of the great information and ideas - i think your art looks amazing and you've inspired me to try to make a piece to hang on my own wall.
Great demonstration! years a go my mother was a master at this art type and specialized in horse art. What gauge copper metal do you use to do this art with? I have my mothers variety old tools and would like to give it a try again. I did it in high school class many years ago, a lot of fun!
Thank you! Sir, I was diagnosed with a cancer last year and I was recently given a very nice supply of copper shingles as well as some large copper sheet stock. Along with the copper, I was given an antique set of weathervane directional letters, beautiful old sand cast iron. I would like to make a weather vane as a gift to the man that provided me the materials, who also happens to be my best friend. Can you direct me to a book or site that might enable me to embark on this assignment. I do have an artistic mind and common sense mechanical abilities. Thank you, Eric
Hi Gordon. Excellent demonstration. My mother in law made many Copper Tooling pictures over the years, and I recently found her suit case full of drawings and unfinished work, which I would like to now try and complete and finish, as well as start new ones. My question is that a couple of her completed and filled work has tarnished badly, and I am wondering how the best way is of cleaning them up. I don't want to ruin them. They are a sort of green colour, as they have sat in a suitcase for 20 years or so since last touched. Should I just use steel wool or should I use a liquid cleaner of some kind. I would love to hear from you. Pam Holmes
I have found a little simple trick for tracing and even cutting paint on a wall and ceiling. Don't look directly where your pencil/pen tip is at or even your paint brush. Look ahead on your tracing about 3/4 " to 1". With your paint brush, look ahead about 3". I know that is apples and oranges, but you will find it helps on many things in the art world. When you are tracing and you look directly at your pencil/pen tip, you tend to wiggle and don't get a good traced line. It tends to wiggle. When you look ahead a little you stay right on the line you are tracing, and your trace looks much nicer. Takes very little practice to get it. Try it and see if it works for you. You can try it using carbon between two sheets of paper so you don't waste the copper foil. Just a little something I learned that seems to have helped quite a few people I know.
Do you ever have to anneal the copper on more complex art? I know it work hardens quickly when I doing metal spinning on my wood lathe and needs annealed or it will split or crack.
What type of filling do you recommend that doesn’t smell? I read reviews that acrylic modeling paste can smell bad too. I have bad lungs so need to be careful. Thanks!
When I taught kids at school I mixed white glue with sawdust and that worked pretty well. I don't find modelling paste to be smelly but it's more expensive then glue and sawdust.
Tynulox Pure Copper Metal Foil Roll 0.2mm x 50mm x 1M 110 copper sheet roll on Amazon. I usually order a roll that is about a foot wide and 5 ft long so I can get several out of it.
I’ve had to redo things up to six times, I am usually successful don’t give up. Besides I’ve learned more from my failures that I can use across the board.
