Making rose from copper pipe 

I couldn’t take it anymore. I made the bracelet and it is beautiful! Thanks so much for the information AND inspiration!

i made two of these for my girlfriend and my 7 year of being together as two roses entwined together, great tutorial i used new copper brake pipe for the stem as i found that easier and cheaper to get hold of, not having any blow torches etc at home i used a brake pipe flare tool to grip the underside of the stem then drop the petals onto the stem and hammered the end over up top, giving it a heftier thump on the top of the pipe set the flare right under the petals locking it all together very tight so much so that they wouldn't spin as for enealing i used the electric cooker ring after the petal detailing, that work perfect.

So beautiful.

It's beautiful! To clean later if tarnished I was told you can crunch up a piece of tin foil added with the rose in a pot of boiling water for a minute or two and it will clean right up. I haven't tried it yet, but I will once my copper rose tarnishes. Lol Thinking I may paint with a red gel paint to make it look rose gold. Just a thought. Lol Thanks a bunch for sharing...great piece of art!

This is the most beautiful piece of Roses 🌹 ever personally I would like to say thank you 🙏 so so much for sharing your excellent experience to all of us around the whole I tire world 🌍 again thank you so much 😊 May god bless you and your family.

I going to try it I have some scrap copper I've been saving.Better then scraping it.Thanks for showing how to.

One easy way to clean metal after its been annealed is to soak it in a solution using the Ph minus pool chemical. It's the same chemical that is sold as a cleaning "pickel" by jewelry supply companies and its much cheaper to use Ph minus. Nice video. Thank you.

this is so creative love it. thank you for video

Great design! I make much simpler ones, so this was a great video to add some pizazz to mine. Some tips from my experience: 1. Consider brazing your copper with brass rods with flux. The brass color looks great on copper in my opinion. 2. Add some pedals (if you do, brass is a must for brazing) 3. Heat treating at the end will create an amazing purple (don't get it as hot as you were early on in the video though otherwise you get that grey tone). Do as you did and quench immediately everytime. This takes some practice but the purple is worth it. 4. If you do heat treat it, a few passes with clear coat really gives it a great shine along with the color.

Learning how to draw and that might of been the best lesson ever! So going to do this!

For a guy that can 't draw a flower, you sure make a nice copper rose

Absolutely beautiful! 🌹🌷🌸

You did an amazing job….. I would be proud to have someone make one for me for sure. I may even try a few myself

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For anyone who might not have a small cross peen, welding hammers work *great* for the texturing, and are usually available at the big box stores for pretty cheap.

Very nice, good thing is won't die 4 sure. Must try that!

Seriously, You Tube just ROCKS!!! It's the best thing to come along since the cell phone - but it is SO addicting!

Nice work! Now that I know how to make one, all I need is a shop, and all the necessary equipment. Seriously, though, this was a very nice, educational video!

I've made roses out of old fabric. I didn't bother using any templates. Just turning out a variety of shaped and sized petals makes for nice natural looking flowers. Doing it this way would require a bit more involved construction. Craft the petals and then start attaching them to the stem, working from the inside of the bloom out. Start with the smaller petals and work out to the larger ones, like this project does. This is a great project. Thanks for sharing. :)

Thanks for sharing your art work, they look fantastic! I made an indoor lily pad water fountain out of copper years ago,complete with a "leaping" frog and I did use a similar technique to create the veins in the leaves, but I used a bench mounted wire wheel to create a beautiful ripple effect over the whole surface. The end result was a very realistic looking leaf.

EXCELLENT! This is a really nice project and your thorough explanation and demonstration makes it look and sound doable. You're a natural teacher.

to get rid of the quenching marks look up using acid.... thanks for the video I really enjoy learning different methods and perspectives. I saw a comment about Kermit the frog and I can't help but agree, u should run with it:)

If you're not in a super hurry, I've found dropping the copper in a bath of vinegar after annealing gets rid of the oxide layer really nicely. No scrubbing required. Takes a couple hours though.

I haven't had the pleasure of working with copper like that, however I have used 18 gauge sheet steel to do it and that was a fun project. I even went so far as to add thorns and leaves to the stem. I started by using a 3/16" 7018 welding rod as the stem after I stripped the flux coating off. I then hand cut and shaped several different shapes of petals to see what looked best. The first 2 layers had 3 petals per layer, the next 2 layers had 4 petals, then the next three layers had an additional petal per layer (all together it had 32 hand formed petals). All petals were hand formed and I used diffrent hammers for multiple texturing effects on all the petals and leaves. The center came to a point and the thing weighed almost 10 pounds when I was done, but it was worth it. I highly reccomend trying it if you have the time and the patience to do it.

LOVE IT! ❤️ I will definitely try this! Not expensive and looks like a lot of fun! I can see making several different types of flowers to make a boquete, maybe out of different metals!

I for one enjoyed the whistle ing and all the rest of it thanks

Thank you for sharing this project with us. May I say your video was really great in that the mix of video, voice, and music was great. I finished the video feeling 100% confident that I could do this given the complete description of what is required to complete this project. Great job.

I'm thinking if I did this I'd replace the rod with a small tube. Then I'd make several to put in a vase. Hook up a pump so water can flow from the roses and some sort of dish the vase sits in and catches the water. I think this project could get out of hand fast. I don't even know where I'd get sheets of copper to make something like that.

Just randomly stumbled across this video and wow, that's an awesome project! I've got loads of copper pipe and these roses would look awesome as building decoration! Luckily my father is restoring a house from the early 20th century (built in 1912) and he wants to replace all the gutters with copper ones. I reckon these roses would look awesome as decoration along the side of it. Just use them as a decorative way to hide the mounting points and give the house that more charm. Either this or use them around a few fireplaces or other decorative areas of the house and mix it with intricately carved woodwork.

Beautiful! I want one! :-)

Found my girlfriends birthday present. I think I might do some things a little differently but that's apart of creativity. I was thinking bending the stem and making a leaf on the bottom and possibly using wire with strands instead of solid wire and making a bud in the center with the strands. But either way it turned out amazing the way you made it. 👍

Thank you for sharing, lovely 😊 🤟🏻❤️ metal roses last forever!

GREAT VIDEO ! We all know how much work they are except the self righteous trolls

Texture can be enhanced using a dull chisel or cross peen hammer over soft pine block. This also gives you the curvature and inset bowl-like effect. The end finish can be ruined if you dont polish sharp edges or by using tools with ‘teeth’ rather than smooth jawed grips. They can be had cheaply at any online jewelry supply

A couple of points. Roses are five petals per layer, not six. Not a big deal at the end of the day, but it does make a difference in the appearance. While far more work, forging the edges of the petals to thin tapers also improves the form. Your use of the cross pein to give texture is fine. One can use a very fine lining punch if deep accuracy is desired. They are not terribly difficult to make. Some of the roses my fellow smiths have produced have been simply astonishing to behold. I might suggest forming the sepal prior to riveting the other petals in. You might need to make a fixture for holding it for setting due to the curvature. Again, it depends on what you seek to achieve in terms of result and how tolerant you are of extra work. Your rose is very fine, BTW. My suggestions here are offered only for those who might seek to take things to the next level. There are always those who get bitten by this sort of work and then go apey to refine and perfect their results. Another great material for roses is titanium. One advantage is one may anodize the various parts to very convincing colors such that at first blush, a well done example might be mistaken for the real thing. Some of the work of my fellow smiths is simply spectacular. Once again I advise those who try this beware - it can become very addictive. Nice work. Thanks.

new sub great video a simple project with a fantastic result love it

you don't have to do 6 pedals per sheet of copper, some doing it for the first time might find it easier to just do 4 pedals per sheet and add a couple extra layers, 4 pedal style roses aren't quite as full but they still are good looking roses and a lot easier to do because it lessens the overlapping hassle and makes it easier to form the pedals, you can even do just 2 pedals per sheet to make tighter small bud style roses which look good in a multi rose arrangement. also if you plan to make a number of roses the absolute best and easiest tool for texturing the leaves and pedals is a Chisel Point Rock or Brick Hammer but you can use the nail pulling end of an old claw hammer you may have to sharpen the claw ends a little with a grinder. also for a nice looking contrast make the sepal and leaves out of thin sheet steel, the metal lids from canned food work good once you flatten them out and use a torch to paint them with some color. steel rod for works good the stem and metal coat hangers for the leave branches and if you have a welder you can puddle a little metal in a couple places on the steel stems then grind it to a point to make thorns. it also looks really cool if you paint the copper rose with a torch, painting copper with a torch takes some practice but once you get it down you can make some beautiful stuff...

Absolutely wonderful! You did a great job sharing your techniques and serves as inspiration for DIYr’s like me. Like you, I preferred the body hammer for texturing the petals. I do have a question about the annealing process you used. The dictionary shows the metal should be allowed to cool slowly. Is there a reason you chose to quick quench? Again, superb job Kevin.

What a beautiful flower! Thank you for sharing!

Copper and silver have incredible health values. Even holding them is extremely beneficial. Fun fact: That’s why water pipes “were” made from copper. Ah..the good ole days when people actually cared. Thanks for the video I enjoyed and may attempt one day. Best rose to gift anyone.

This is absolutely beautiful! I want to make one to use on a copper cuff bracelet. This is too pretty not to wear!

I can really appreciate your teaching style. It’s rare for someone to explain all of those little nuances that make learning so much easier. I would have liked more info on soldering, but I’m not complaining. The other questions I had were answered via other comments (length of tubes, wire gauge). I hope you will make more videos with copper. It’s unfortunate that so many people clog up the comment section with complaints. Use whatever recording device and music you want! People can be just rude and there’s no excuse for it. They can mute their device if they don’t like your music. If a commenter wants to offer a suggestion, they should do so without it being negative. I wouldn’t even reply to them. They could just as easily explained their thoughts on alternative methods without suggestion your way is wrong. Years ago, I played with copper wire to make jewelry (as a completely ignorant novice). I would take thick wire and wrap around natural sea glass. They were unique pendants as I could never repeat the same wrapping twice since thick wire can be difficult to work with! Guess I should have annealed it first! I think I actually have all of these materials so you inspired me. I used to buy electrical wire and cut off the casing resulting in many strands of cheap copper wires. Then, I would play with the torch until I got the rainbow of colors. Copper is a cool metal. I agree with you about coating with sealant. It will eventually wear off and/or if it peels, you will have a mess to clean up.

Wow, what a beautiful flower, your mother must of been so proud of it. Thank you for this nice video!

a couple other hammer options that work good are, to take an old claw hammer and weld in the the nail pulling slot then grind the whole thing to semi sharp edge or my favorite is to use a brick hammer which to me makes the best petal and leave edges. as for the petal shapes, i took some short pieces of steel tubing tut them in half and turned one half over and made it fit into the other half of the pipe then shaped one end so both would curl in the same direction then welded the 2 halves into the jaws of a couple pairs of cheap channel locks. the end product is a couple quick and easy petal presses in different sizes that you can shape and bend up the petals with one quick motion while avoiding the hassle of the petals overlapping and getting hung up on each other. a couple things you can do to make your roses really pop are to use contrasting metals, if you make the rose out of copper then make the leaves out of steel or visa versa, another thing you can do to make the copper parts really beautiful is to torch paint the copper, it takes some practice to learn but once you get good at it you can make some copper art that puts polished copper to shame......

I've got one of those "never to be used in the kitchen again" pans! (Used my for gardening.) Excellent work, Sir!

Tarnishing the copper with the torch, once shaped, then lacquered and assembled is like a rare black rose color..(?). Very cool idea! Thanks for sharing!

Very beautiful , love that. Makes me wish I had the stuff to make me one . Tfs, hope you have a blessed day 😊

I added texture to the petals by brushing lightly from the centre outwards with the edge of a Dremel cutting disc - makes very quick work of it and gives a “brushed metal” appearance

Straight up 8 making your rose that has not opened the long stem my aunt from Arizona who has passed taught me that when I was a kid and I still use it to the day

You cold save a little work and have plenty of material for your pattern if you could find some copper gutters they are found on old municipal buildings or churches I ran across some. A couple of years ago at a farm auction. They were in an old burned out shed.

That turned out really nice! Did that vice come from a milling machine? I have a dumpy little HF metal turning hobby lathe but it work well for the sorts of things I do where the tolerances don't need to be super precise. It comes in really handy for turning left-handed threads for fishing reel handles on older ones that I find that are missing. Glad I'm sub'd to your channel, I know I'm going to learn a lot here!

nice work

Wow, I'm impressed that is a lot of work, looks really great ! Awesome job.

Excellent video! Thanks for a great project.

Awesome idea and great explanation of the entire process. I’m definitely going to give this project a shot and try my hand at creating a copper rose. Thanks again!

fabulous, I think I will do the pattern on the sheet before cutting the petals, thank you so much, going to try it :)

Beautiful !! Thank you for sharing : )

Looks like a great project to do in the shop with my daughter 🤗

Nicely done! These turn out looking great, thanks for sharing your process.

Great video but change the music

You nailed it! I make roses and other flowers from air-dried clay, I am surprised how beautifully these came out. Thanks for the tutorial! Blessings to you.

I am sooo amazed and hugely impressed with not only this beautiful rose but this awesome man!!! Such a wonderful voice and I'd call his hands "magic"!!!

It's a nice project, and looks great. Thanks for sharing it.

I'm making one of those right now for a girl in Colombia. See you at the Bash.

great video man! just finished one for my ma for mothers day and it turned out better than i anticipated. thanks for the idea!

Sorry dude your audio is feeding back in the low frequencies. every time you bump your work surface the audio booms. telling me your mic is touching the surface via stand or whatever its attached too

This is beautiful! I don't know that you'd want to "clean it up" at all. Copper gets an INCREDIBLY beautiful patina with time. What's the thickness of the copper pipe? Scrap copper sheeting (or even buying some just for this project) would be great too! (& perhaps easier to cut, at least initially). These would be amazing soldered into/onto a stained glass wind chime project, a concrete birdbath, or other projects. Really beautiful stuff! Nice tutorial too, TY!

Do you sell them or know please comment back thank you it's very nice I would love to have one for my mother

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Very nice work! A couple of hints/ideas....when you finish the flower, soak it if a container of hot vinegar, to shine it up. If you want to force a patina, use common ammonia in a spray bottle. Spritz it down, and let it dry. Repeat until you get the Color you want. Then use a brass grill brush to highlight the petal tips, and shine them up. The ammonia trick can be done also, by wetting a paper towel with it, and put into an air tight container for a day or so

Awesome idea using the copper from pipe and stunning final product! How are you liking those Knipex??? Just bought a couple pairs myself recently, have yet to use them.

That is really cool. I am a little impatient and it is sometimes difficult for me to go through several steps to complete a project but I would like to try this. It is lovely. Thank you for sharing your skill with us. Peace out xo

Beautiful! My daughter’s boyfriend presented her with 3 welded roses on their first date. He’s a welder by trade. Being romantic she said, they can also be used as a weapon.

wow that's really really nice.... your mother must have been really happy when you gave her one....that is a great gesture.... mothers do deserve a lot

Excellent, educational video. You made a fine piece there. Thank you for sharing.

Nice video, thanks. Just to clarify 'you' are using 1" copper tube correct (1 1/8" O.D with a circumference of 3.53429"). Also, are you using type K, L or type M copper? How long were you cutting the tube (about 3 9/16" end to end)? I believe the largest template was around 4".

save time, effort, gas and money on this project: get some copper sheet to start off with!

Beautifully Done!! looks better than the real thing!

Nice, perhaps you may be able to use an acrylic clear spray to keep that nice cooper color, the spray should keep it from turning dark. Make sure to clean off the acid used to solder the stem with, you can use cooper to solder with, it just needs more heat where as the lead need less to liquefy; in this case using cooper rode to solder is better.

Really glad I came across this video. I had to subscribe love what you've got on your channel.

Nice rose. Had to listen on mute by the end as the music had become annoying.

Thanks! Your video inspired me to make my wife a rose in this manner for our 7th wedding anniversary two days ago (the copper anniversary, of course!) and she was delighted.

fantástico seu trabalho em cobre,e obrigado pelo seu tempo e dedicação muito bommmm.

This looks really nice and I'm going to do one for me and my wife's 40th anniversary. lose the music it's distracting from a great video. or reduce the volume well below the volume of your voice.

Thanks for sharing. I acquired a few hundred square feet of heavily tarnished and filthy thin copper sheeting in the course of a remodel. I didn't want to spend my life and fortune cleaning it, so experimented using suggestions about using hot sauce. I went to the local Cash and Carry and bought an inexpensive gallon of sauce and tried it. It removed the tarnish in seconds. A quick rinse and I was ready to go. I do a bit of copper plating (lumberjocks.com/projects/348297) and, in the coarse of doing so, found myself playing with the temper of copper wire for the wife's jewelry projects. I was amazed at what a HUGE difference it made. Heavy gauge copper that took some real effort to bend was easy to bend after heat treating.

That was really cool!

Salt, warm water, & vinegar will clean up copper quick and bright

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thats a sht ton of work for a rose ...is it just for kicks or do you sell them and what would you normally make for one of those? if its just for kick you can make it out of thin metal to make it easier to make and then copper electroplate it in seconds...just a suggestion.

That was a wonderful tutorial! Thank you for taking the time to explain everything. My only questions are, what type of solder did you use? (I work with stained glass so I use mostly 60/40) And what gauge wire or copper rod did you use for the stake? Thanks again, just beautiful!😊

Awesome. I love roses. Never saw a copper one done before

Really nice. Thanks.

It is beautiful! My grandaughter made one for me a few years ago. She was 18 and took a class in metal working. That little (?) Girl is 27 now....Her name is "Jessi" and she can do ANYTHING!!! ❤💖💗👍

Why are you torturing us with this music???

Absolutely beautiful thank you so much sacrifices

YOU ARE MAGNIFICENT..!!COPPER IS MY FAVORITE MATERIAL...!!

That is most excellent! Torch is a good one. I use same. Tips for cleaning copper Use watery ketchup and soak Salt and vinegar (I have not used this yet) Rub with dry comment powder Finish with good polish paste. I will try this project- fits my skill well!

It's not just a beautifully crafted rose... This video CURED MY INSOMNIA!!

The dark areas from the annealing is called "fire scale." To make your life easier, you can remove fire scale without having to buff it off by making a "pickling" solution using ingredients that you probably have in your kitchen cabinet. You'll need a glass or ceramic bowl, distilled white vinegar and kosher salt. DO NOT use iodized salt and do not use a metal bowl. Add one teaspoon of salt for every cup of distilled white vinegar. Heat it up. Most jewelers/metal smiths use a small crock pot. You don't have to heat it, but it removes the fire scale MUCH faster. Once the pickling has removed the fire scale, remove the copper using plastic tongs, not metal ones. You can simply rinse under cool water, but most metal smiths will dip the copper piece in a solution of baking soda and water to stop the pickling process, then rinse. Dry the piece off and then you can use VERY fine steel wool to polish the piece to a high shine. If you want to keep the copper from tarnishing, do an Internet search for a product called "Renaissance Wax" and apply it *sparingly* to the piece. A little goes a long way so all you need to do is rub your finger across the Renaissance Wax then rub it on the copper. Use as much as you need to cover the entire piece (front and back) using the finger application process. Once the piece is coated, wait 30 seconds and then rub the piece with a clean soft cloth and voilà! The wax can also be used on wood, leather, other types of metals, valuable art, marble, ivory and valuable antique furniture. Remember, a little goes a long way so a 200ml jar will last for years.

Great job.