Very useful channel. You have a struck a great balance between useful content and natural charm in your delivery. I wish you all the success you deserve :)
Hi young lady. My wife says that you can't teach a 75 year old dog new tricks! It has been over 40 years since I did any sheet metal work and was only fair at it then but, you have shown me some things that I had totally forgotten or never knew! Thank you very much! Look forward to each new "class"!
I was fortunate to pick up a huge Duparquet pot but its bowled and has cramp seams. Ive been worried about truing it because of the seams. Since you mentioned doing them before, any tips? I'm thinking I need to keep the heat on the seams consistent so they have some give and will be working the pot inverted on a wood form. Thank you for sharing your knowledge in these videos!
We Blacksmiths have a Tool called a Flatter; they have a Handel for a striker (the second Man) I made a Tool I call a Flatter, looks like an upside-down T with a flat round plate on the tale for striking with a Hammer so I could do something very similar to what you're doing with your Rawhide mallet and Hammer!
My pot has big handles and brass handle holder ... no tin. Just pure copper ...the bottom is " baggy" for want of a better word. Im hoping to figure it out.
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lolol - wait, I should add an icon for cash?! How do I not know anything about this?! I can't wait to restore your pieces in my shop right now. :) And I am sooo happy we salvaged this one!! New life! What fun!!! wheeee!
A smoothed radiused steel flat of proper diameters would be ideal for re-forming a deformed bottom. Your tools used for the reformation project were actually a bit challenging.
That makes me feel a lot better, since it was tricky! :) I would actually want to do wood, maybe, instead of steel, just because the steel edges might really dent the copper radius on the base? I just get so many random sizes that it's hard to take the time to make a jig/fixture for just one - I'd have to charge a LOT more for restorations. But you're so right - a die for reforming would have been better. Thank you!
Ive been given two cast iron mushrooms that have a variety of sides of different shapes and a small funny looking coper hammer... I have no idea what im gonna do eith those but i have a big big copper pot which was used for wood near a fire and bottom is reallt bent and flabby
This looks similar to heat or flame straightening sure not if that is actually happening here but it's a similar process. Never seen it done on copper before. Do you anneal the old copper before and/or after?
Yeah, that's probably a good name for it, though I have never heard of "flame straightening" but I love it. The heat is doing the annealing with the blowtorch, then I work harden it by hammering, then anneal/soften again with the torch, etc...
I don't quench it. Copper doesn't respond to quenching the same way steel does. Their crystalline structures differ enough. But basically if I'm heating it...it's annealed. Even once I would put it in cold water, the copper would still be "softer" than before...until I start hammering and work hardening it again.
Buy a second hand wood lathe. Cut hard wood disc to the right diameter for your pots and keep them in your shop. Cut a piece of wood to support your disc at the correct length for the pot and place the disc on top to create a "mushroom" (buy a cheap chop-saw for speed). Then put your pot on the mushroom. You could sandwich another sheet of wood on top of the pot to take out the hammer marks. I think you know the rest. I wish I was you, you're going to have a lot of fun!!!
Lolol, you forgot to add the part where I have to learn to use said wood lathe. I don't think my customer would wait that long to get their pot back, but someday I hope to get a lathe and learn wood turning skills. :)
I'm thinking you need something better and flatter to work the inside than beating on the handle to a rawhide headed hammer. Even a wooden post or something has got to work better.
I would love that. I should make a fixture...just what diameter?! And if I make it one size, do you think it would work for various sizes? Or I'd need to custom cut a diameter each time this happens? hmmm. :)
