Could you suggest an instructional book for making copper lanterns? I want to make a Victorian bracket lantern but I can not find any resources or cutting files. Thank you.
Beautiful looking. But unfortunately the soldered joints fail over time. That is why all the old gas lamps throughout the French Quarter in New Orleans are held together with copper rivets. Very few soldered joints exist and none of them are structural. Have a look at Bevelo lights for a good example.
I hope you can read this and reply, I make copper light fixtures as a hobby but rivet the joints before soldering , in the first portion of the video when you are soldering the cap/roof, it looks like 4 tri angles soldered together but later on the hood looks bent not soldered as if you had bent two tri angles to form half of the roof then joint the two halves to form a complete pyramid shaped hood, am I mistaken?
jason use little pieces of solder and just run the heat over the area quickly. Don’t let the copper get to hot as that will crack the glass. The solder does not need lots of heat. Also use propane instead of acetylene as this makes less heat. Moving your torch quickly and only se as much heat as needed to only melt the solder is the trick. Just add little pieces of solder until you have a full solder joint and lat the piece cool between soldering each piece.
Litemup it is usually oxygen and propane. If you go and look at a plumbing supply they sell a propane burner that will also work well. The size of the nozzle is the secret. You don’t need much heat. You can get plumbing solder and flux from them as well.
Agree....he didn't want to do any voiceover on this....it plays at a big open Market where it'd be hard to hear any voice track. Appreciate the feedback!
