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    Help with copper forming

    How is copper cut to form around either curved corners or a round table?
    On a round table is any cutting reqired (30"-36")?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bill Jobe View Post
    How is copper cut to form around either curved corners or a round table?
    On a round table is any cutting reqired (30"-36")?
    Some details?? What gauge? Insert to a frame? Or needs an edge treatment: rolled, boxed. etc..?? Finish: polished, matte, 'antiqued' (chemical patina)..??

    Copper is amazingly ductile, up to a point. Then it needs annealing, and you can go at bending it again....think Statue of Liberty, and the French word (repouisse - - or something like that).

    Not sure I can answer more questions, but have looked at requirements to DIY a copper chimney cap for 4-5 years (waiting on a roundtoit). I know just enough to get myself in trouble.

    I do know you can cut it with nearly any typical sheet metal tools, just not sure of the quality of the edge.

    Edit: forgot to mention the hardness ... it comes in several flavors of 'hardness' (forgotten the proper term). From dent-with-a-pinky soft, up to make-a-credible-stabbing-weapon hard.

    ,,, warned you I was dangerous,
    Last edited by Malcolm McLeod; 02-19-2019 at 4:32 PM. Reason: hard/soft

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